AMATHES. 489 



2709. Amathes purpurea. (Plate CVII. fig. G.) 



Orthosia purpurea, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 125 (1874); 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 217. 

 Orthosia crispa, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 27G (1875). 



Head and thorax pale grej- mixed with red-brown ; abdomen 

 grej' siiffused with brown. Fore wing grey with a shght purplish 

 tinge suffused and irrorated with red-brown ; subbasal line in- 

 distinct, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line indistinct, double, angled outwards below costa, in submedian 

 fold and above inner margin, and inwards in cell and on vein 1 ; 

 orbicular and reniform slightly defined by brown, the former oblique 

 elliptical, o])eii above, the latter constricted at middle and with its 

 lower part filled in Avith black ; a rather diffused blackish medial 

 line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly obHque 

 and sinuous ; postmedial line double, with blackish spot at costa, bent 

 outwards below costa, then slightly dentate, somewhat angled inwards 

 at discal fold and incurved below vein 4, some grey points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, grey, defined on inner side by 

 a dark shade and oblique bar from costa, then by a series of points 

 in the interspaces, angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved at sub- 

 median fold ; a series of dark points just before termen connected by 

 a slight waved line. Hind wing grey-white suffused and irrorated 

 with brown, a brown tei'minal line ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with red-brown, a discoidal lunule and indistinct curved postmedial 

 line. 



Ab. 1. crispa. Ground-colour of head, thorax, and fore wing j^ale 

 chestnut, the last with the postmedial area darker ; hind wing pale 

 chestnut suffused with brown except costal and terminal areas, a dark 

 discoidal lunule and diffused subterminal band ; the underside 

 chestnut ; abdomen with the lateral fringes and ventral surface 

 rufous. 



Hah. Canada, Vancouver (J. J. Wallcer), 1 c? ; U.S.A., Oregon, 

 1 c? , 1 2 , California, Sanzalito, 3 (5 , 1 $ , type and type crispa. 

 Exp. 36-40 millim. 



*2710. Amathes aniericana. 



Orthosia americana, Morr. Proe. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 434; Smith, 

 Cut. Noct. N. Am. p. 219. 



Grey-brown tinged with flesh-red. Fore wing with the lines 

 indistinct : antemedial line double, oblique, waved ; orbicular and 

 reniform with slight pale annuli, the former figure-of-8 shaped, the 

 latter large, quadrangular, with dark spot in lower extremity ; post- 

 medial line double, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate 

 and produced to darlc points on the veins, slightly incurved at discal 

 fold, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line distinct, pale, defined 

 on inner side by a broad red shade, excurved at middle and some- 

 what dentate at veins 4, 3. Hind wing greyish suffused witli 

 fuscous brown, the cilia greyish ; the underside greyer irrorated 



