468 NOCTUIDJ?. 



(liscoidal spot, sinuous postmcdial line, and terminal series of minute 

 lunulcs. 



Hah. Canada, 2 cJ , 3 $ , type ; U.S.A., New York, Iowa. Exp. 

 34: millim. 



2G82. Conistra ceromatica. (Plate CVI. fig. 30.) 



Scopelosoma ceromatica, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. !Nat. Sci. ii. p. 70 (1874) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 225. 



Head and thorax deep crimson red ; patagia with a slightly 

 darker lino near tips ; abdomen ochreous tinged with red and irro- 

 rated wil h rufous ; pectus with some pale hair. Fore wing deep 

 crimson red suffused with silvery grey except at base, the costal 

 edge white ; a slight blackish subbasal mark in cell ; antemedial 

 line deep red, erect, almost straight ; orbicular and rcniform very 

 faintly detined by whitish, the former very small elliptical, the 

 latter constricted at middle and with blackish mark in lower part; 

 medial line indistinct, deep red, slightly oblique, almost straight ; 

 postmedial line slightly angled outwards below costa, then oblique, 

 slightly sinuous and with minute dark streaks beyond it on the 

 veins; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle, with dark streaks beyond it on the veins ; a fine 

 waved red terminal line. Hind wing ochreous suffused with red 

 except costal area ; indistinct diifused postmedial and subterminal 

 lines ; the uuderside paler, the costal area irrorated with red except 

 towards base, a red discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., lEaine, Xew Hampshire, Xew York, New 

 Jersey, 1 (5,1$ type. Exp. 38-40 millim. 



Genus GRAMMOSCELIS, uov. 



Type, G. leuconeura. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond frons, 

 the 2nd joint fringed with long hair below ; frons with truncjite prominence 

 with raised corneous edges ; ej-es large, rounded ; antennie of male bipectinate 

 with moderate branches decreasing to base and apex ; head and thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; pectus 

 clothed with long hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base and lateral 

 fringes of liair but without crests. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell; G from upper angle; from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areola ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 t rom angle of cell ; 

 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 sliortly stalked ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



2683. Grammoscelis leuconeura, n. sp. 



(S . Head and thorax pale greyish ochreous mixed with red- 

 brown and black ; sides of palpi and frons with some black ; tegulas 

 with black medial line; patagia witli black bars near base; tarsi 

 with blackish bars : abdomen greyish ochreous suffused witli brown. 

 Fore wing greyish ochreous suffused with reddish brown and slightly 

 irrorated with fuscous, the veins whitish ; subbasal line represented 

 by double black stria; from costa and blackish streaks in and below 



