402 NOCTtJIDX. 



2G7i'. Conistra signata. (Plate CYI. fig. 20.) 



Oitho&ia siquata, French, Can. Ent. xi. p. 7(5(1811^); Smitli, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 221. 



<S . Head and thorax piirplisli grey more or less strongly tinged 

 with rut'ou.s, frons ^vitll strong lateral black bars; antenntc white 

 lit base ; tepuhe with grey tips with fine brown line before them ; 

 l»rothonix with pair of black points : abdomen pale rufous irrorated 

 with lilack and with sul)latcral series of .small black spots on last 

 four segments. Fore wing purplish grey more or less strongly tini^^ed 

 with rufous and slightly irrorated with black ; subbasal line 

 represented by slight black stria) from costa and cell ; antcraedial line 

 slight, black defined by greyish on inner side, interrupted, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa, then minutely waved ; orbicular and 

 renilbrm with slight pale annuli defined by rufous, the former 

 oblique elliptical, the latter constricted below and with black spot 

 in lower extremity; a medial shade oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then incurved ; postmedial line slight, black defined by 

 greyish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutelj- 

 dentate and produced to black ])oints on the veins, excurvcd to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; subtcrminal line pale defined by brown 

 suftusion on inner side, angled outwards at veins 7, 6 and excurvcd 

 at middle ; a series of slight black points just before termcn ; cilia 

 with a fine pale line at base. Hind Ming pale tinged with pink and 

 irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown, an indistinct diffused 

 dark subterminal band, a fine waved dark terminal line ; cilia jiale 

 pinkish ; the underside grey suffused with rufous especially on 

 costal area and irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Huh. U.S.A., Middle and Central States, 2 cT , ^'ew York, Illinois, 

 Distr. of Columbia. Exp. 42-44 millira. 



2G73. CoKistra tristigmata. (Plate CVI. fig. 21.) 



Scojjelosoma trhtiginaia, Grote, Can. Ent. is. p. 156 (1877) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 2-25. 



Head and thorax bright rufous ; antenna; with the shaft white at 

 base; fore tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, 

 the lateral fringes and anal tuft rufous. Fore wing rufous more or 

 loss tinged with greyish and irrorated with black ; subbasal line 

 indistinct, curved, from costa to submedian fold, antemedial line 

 double, the inner line very indistinct, slightly angled outwards 

 below costa, inwardly oblique and straight to vein 1, then excurvcd; 

 claviform minute, narrow, defined by brown ; orbicular small, 

 round, defined ])y brown, sometimes touching the antemedial line; 

 reniform pale rufous or greyish defined by brown, with brown line 

 on discocellullars, its lower jiart filled in Avith black with wliito 

 ]ioint on its outer edge; medial line slightly waved, oblique below^ 

 the cell : postmedial line double at costa. then slightly sinuous and 

 produced to short streaks on the veins, slightly angled outwards at 



