4G0 NocTuiD.i:. 



to sulimodiaii fold ; aiitcmcdial liiR- whitish, inwardly ol)li(|UO, 

 almost straijiht or plijrlitly incurved, arising from middlo of costa ; 

 claviform and orbicular absent; reniform a narrow lunule with 

 white annulus ; postnicdial line whitish, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, cxcurvcd to vein 4, then incurved ; an ol)liquc whitish 

 line before the subterminal line whicli is line, whitish, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine dark terminal line. 

 Hind wing greyish suffused wit h fuscous brown ; a fine dark terminal 

 line; cilia ochreous Avhite with slight brown lino tlirough them; 

 the underside whitish slightly tinged with purplish and thickly 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and diffused postmedial 

 line. 



llah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley-Dod), 4 5 ; U.S.A., 

 N.E. States, 2 $ type, New York. Exp. 34-36 millim. 



Larva. Head broad, round. Idack in front, vertex brown, labium 

 and antonnte white. Body brown, lighter and mottled in dorsal 

 space ; dorsal and subdorsal lines whitish, dark brown edged ; 

 substigmatal band broad, white, straight, sharply edged, tubercles 

 white : cervical shield cut by a pale yellow subdorsal line ; thoracic 

 feet nearly black. — H. G. D. 



2679. Conistra iudirecta. (Plate CVI. fig. 27.) 



Xanthia indirccta, Wlk. x. 46S (ISoT) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Ain. p. -22'). 

 Scopclosoma grcpfiana, Groto, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 6'J (lt:'74). 



S . Head and thorax yellow mixed with fiery red : abdomen 

 yellow dorsally irrorated with red. Fore wing yelloAv thickly 

 irrorated with red, the veins with slight rufous streaks ; subbasal 

 line red, slightly angled outwards in cell, from eosta to submedian 

 fold : antemedial line red with some dark scales on it, erect, almost 

 straight ; orbicular and reniform defined by red, the former small, 

 round, the latter slightly constricted at niiddlo and somewhat angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; medial line oblique, slightly sinuous, 

 forming inner edge of reniform ; postmedial line red with some 

 dark scales on it, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, almost 

 straight ; subterminal line indistinct, rufous with some darker 

 suffusion before it on costa, slightly angled outwards at veins 7, (5 

 and excurved at middle ; a crenulate dark terminal Hue. Hind 

 wing pale yellow more or less strongly tinged with red except on 

 costal area ; a fine rufous terminal line; cilia yellowish white; the 

 underside yellowish white, with slight rufous discoidal lunule with 

 spot on costa above it, and sinuous postmedial line showing through 

 to upperside. 



llah. Canada; U.S.A., N.E. States to Distr. of Columbia, 3 <S , 

 type and type f/rcpjiana. Exp. 36-40 millim. 



2680. Conistra moffatiana. (Plate CVI. fig. 2J5.) 



Scopelofoma mofaiiana, Grote, Bull. U.S. Gcol. Geog. Surv. Terr. vi. p. oS3 



(1882); Smitb, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 22."). 

 Scopclosojna tjr<rfiana, Grotc, 111. Essaj, y>. \SZ\ pi. 3, f. 38 (nee Grote 1874). 



