490 NOCTUIDJE. 



■with brown, a dark discoidal lumilc and narrow biisiiiuatc post- 

 modial line. 



Hab. U.S.A., Xew Jersej\ Exp. 40 millim. This species is 

 unknown to mc. 



2711. Amathes puta. (Plate CYII. fig. 7.) 



Xanthia jmta, Grote. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 347, pi. 7. f. 50 (18G3) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 223. 

 Xanthia curoa, Grote & Kob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 431 (1873) ; 



Smith, Cat. >.'oct. N. Am. p. 218. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with red-brown. Fore 

 wing grey suffused with fiery rufous ; subbasal line dift'used, waved, 

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

 oblique ; orbicular and renifonn indistinctly defined by brown, the 

 fornit r rather (juadrate, open above and below, the latter with its 

 lower part obscured by the difi'used fuscous medial line which is 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then sinuous ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, double, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 .waved, oxcurved to vein 4, then incurved ; postmedial and terminal 

 areas rather darker except at apex ; subtermin;il line pale, defined 

 on inner side by a series of slight brown marks, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal scries of 

 black points ; cilia brown with a pale line at base. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused and irrorated with brown, a darker terminal line : 

 cilia whitish tinged with brown : the underside white irrorated 

 with brown, a black discoidal lunule and indistinct ciirvcd post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Canada (Norman), 1 $, Alberta, Calgary (Wolle)f-Dod )y 

 1 2 ' U.S.A., E. States to Pennsylvania and w^est to the Mississippi 

 Valley and Colorado, Xew York, 1 c? , 2 $ (Walsiiu/ham), 1 J. 

 E.v2^. 32 miliim. 



2712. Amathes ralla. (Plate CVII. fig. 8.) 



Xanthia rnlla, Grote & Eob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 04(1, pi. vii. f. 4D 

 (18(38) ; Smith, Cat. Koct. N. Am. p. 217. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow suftuscd with bright 

 rufous, the last whitish at base. Fore wing yellow suflused and 

 irrorated with bright rufous; sultbasal line indistinctly double, 

 rufous, waved, from costa to sulmiedian fold, Avith dark point on its 

 outer edge in cell ; antemedial line double, rufous, waved, with dark 

 point before it in cell ; orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the 

 former rather oblique elliptical, ojjcn above, the latter constricted at 

 middle and with its centre partinlly defined by fuscous ; a difiused 

 rufous medial line excurved at midclle ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double, defined bv brown on outer side, obliqtie from costa to vein 7 

 and incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line only defined by a series 

 of small black .spots on its inner side between veins 7 and 2 and the 

 area beyond it being suffused with rufous exce])t at apex ; a terminal 

 series of small black spots; cilia red-brown with a fine vellowish 



