CONISTRA. 465 



distinct; postmedial line dark defined by grey on outer side, 

 ■crenulate, slightly excurved ; snbterminal line very indistinct, pale 

 slightly defined by fuscous on inner side and with the area beyond 

 it somewhat darker ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing fuscous, 

 slightly paler at base ; cilia ochreous or reddish ; the underside pale 

 reddish with darker irroration, a discoidal spot and postmedial line. 

 Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs. Exp. 35-40 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type 

 in Coll. J. B. Smith. 



2677. Coiiistra morrisoni. (Plate CVI. fig. 25.) 



Scopelosoma morrisoni, Grote, Bull. BuiF. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 70 (1874) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. :i26. 



Head and thorax greyish tinged with rufous and irrorated with 

 brown ; antennae whitish at base ; abdomen greyish more or less 

 tinged with rufous, dorsal fuscous segmental bands, the lateral 

 fringes and anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing pale grey-brown tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line indistinct, greyish, curved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line defined by whitish 

 on inner side, almost straight and erect : claviform and orbicular 

 absent ; reniform a narrow whitish lunule with fine dark line in 

 centre and black spot at lower extremity ; medial line indistinct, 

 oblique from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line defined by 

 whitish on outer side, oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line in- 

 distinct, pale, slightly defined by brown on inner side, minutely 

 dentate, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a slight waved terminal line ; cilia with a fine pale line 

 at base. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia whitish tinged with 

 rufous and with slight brown line through them ; the underside 

 whitish tinged with purplish pink and irrorated with fuscous, a 

 discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line, 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing chestnut-red ; hind 

 wing with the cilia red. 



Hab. Canada {Norman), 1 S '■> U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, 

 3 c? , 1 2 type. Exp. 44 millim. 



Larva. Dull blackish, dorsal and subdorsal lines whitish, rather 

 distinct ; substigmatal line white ; cervical shield cut by a yellowish 

 subdorsal line. — H. Gr. D. 



2678. Conistra devia. (Plate CVI. fig. 26.) 



Scopelosoma devia, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliil. 1874, p. 209 ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 226. 



$ . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown and slightly 

 tinged with rufous; abdomen grey-white irrorated with brown, the 

 lateral fringes and anal tuft ochreous or rufous. Pore wing grey- 

 wliite suffused and irrorated with purplish brown, the medial and 

 terminal areas rather browner ; subbasal line grey, curved, from costa 



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