CONISTRA. 467 



Head and thorax orange almost entirely suffused with fiery red 

 and with slightly darker lines near tips of teguloe and patagia ; 

 pectus with pale yellow hair ; abdomen silky ochreous yellow. 

 Fore wing orange-yellow suffused and thickly irrorated with fiery 

 red. the veins with slight dark streaks, the lines rufous with leadeu 

 fuscous scales on them ; subbasal line obliquely curved, from costa 

 to submediau fold ; antemedial line slightly oblique from costa to 

 middle of cell, then erect, almost straight ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by red, the former small, round, with some reddish in centre, 

 the latter constricted at middle and slightly angled inwards at 

 upper and lower extremities with slight fuscous mark in lower part ; 

 medial line oblique, slightly sinuous, cutting the upper angle of 

 reniform ; postmedial line angled outwards below costa, then 

 oblique, almost straight ; antemedial line indistinct, rufous, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine waved terminal 

 rufous line. Hind wing bright yellow tinged with red except on 

 costal area ; a fine rufous terminal line ; the underside yellow with 

 small rufous discoidal spot and spot on costa above it, a sinuous 

 postmedial line showing through to upperside and terminal series of 

 minute lunules. 



Hah. Canada, Ontario (Moffat), 2 c^, 2 $ ; U.S.A., X.E. States 

 to Distr. of Columbia, 1 2 • E.vj). 40 millim. 



Larva. Head whitish. Body with the incisures well marked ; 

 white with very faint diffuse yellow transverse rings on the seg- 

 ments. Food-plant, Hamamelis. — H. G. D. 



2681. Conistra pettiti. (Plate CVI. fig. 29.) ' 



Scopdosoma -pettiti, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 188 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 225. 



Head and thorax ochreous suffused with fiery red ; abdomen pale 

 ochreous irrorated with brown forming obscure dorsal bands. Fore 

 wing pale yellow suffused and thicldy irrorated with fiery red,^ the 

 veins Avith slight fuscous irroration ; subbasal line slightly defined 

 by yellowish on outer side, angled outwards in cell, then oblique 

 and' ending at submediau fold ; antemedial line defined by yellowish 

 on inner side, erect, almost straight ; orbicular and reniform with 

 red centres and yellowish annuli defined by red, the former small, 

 round, the latter slightly constricted at middle and with fuscous 

 mark in its lower part ; medial line rather diffused, oblique, almost 

 strai"-ht, forming inner edge of reniform ; postmedial line defined 

 by yellowish on outer side, slightly angled outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, almost straight and with short dark streaks beyond 

 it on the veins ; subterminal line yellowish, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle, the veins beyond it with shght dark 

 streaks ; a terminal series of small rufous lunules. Hind wing pale 

 yellow with traces of diffused rufous postmedial and subterminal 

 lines and fine rufous terminal line ; the underside with small rufous 



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