SYMPISTIS. 415 



cell ; claviform faintly defined by black at extremity and with 

 black streak from it to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 very small, white irrorated with black, the former rather elongate 

 elliptical, the latter with dark centre, a black mark between them 

 in cell ; postmedial line bent outwards below costs, incurved at 

 discal fold and strongly below vein 4, then again excurved, some 

 white points beyond it on costa : subterminal line dark, angled 

 outwards and forming blackish marks at vein 7 and middle, then 

 incurved and with blackish mark on inner side in submedian fold ; 

 cilia chequered black and whitish. Hind wing pure white, tinged 

 with brown at base ; the terminal area black, rather broad at costa, 

 narrowing to a point at tornus : cilia white, chequered with brown 

 at base from costa to vein 2 ; the underside with the costa irrorated 

 with brown, a small black discoidal lunule. 



Hah. Canada, Labrador, 2 c5' , 1 5 , Zeller, Frey, and Grote Colls. ; 

 Scandinavia, Fiumark, Porsanger, Yaranga, and Alten Fjords, 

 Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Lapland, Leech Coll. ; Russia ; N.E. Si- 

 beria. Exp. 26-28 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moth.s Eur. p. 265 ; Ilffm. Eaup. p. 137. 



Dark chocolate-brown shaded with pale violet-grey at sides, 

 sometimes forming a band ; dorsal line yellow with oblique yellow 

 streaks arising from it. Food-plant, Enijietrum nigrum. G. 



2610. Sympistis celloggi. (Plate CV. fig. 32.) 



Anarta MIoqqi, H. Edw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 133 ('1875) : Smith, 

 Cat. Noct'. N. Am. p. 295. 



$ . Head and thorax white mixed with black; tarsi black ringed 

 with white ; abdomen black-brown slightly mixed with grey. Fore 

 wing white suffused and thickly irrorated with fuscous black ; sub - 

 basal line represented by a slight striga from costa ; antemedial line 

 very indistinct, waved ; orbicular hardly traceable and very small, 

 with dark centre and pale annulus defined by black ; reniform a 

 diffused white patch extending to postmedial line with slight dark 

 discoidal lunule on it and black spot at lower angle of cell ; post- 

 medial line defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, and again excurved below 

 submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal 

 line white defined by black suffusion on inner side and with slight 

 dentate black marks before it at middle, angled outwards at veins 7 

 and middle and ii;curved at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal 

 series of black lunules ; cilia chequered white and black-brown with 

 dark line near base. Hind wing black-brown with white medial 

 band, broad at costa, narrowing towards inner margin which it does 

 not reach, the veins and discoidal lunule on it dark ; cilia white, 

 dark at base ; the underside with the costal area white irrorated 

 with brown to terminal band. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada, 1 $ , Tuolumne Co. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



