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which are whitish with slight black lunules at tip. Hind wing 

 whitish, uniformly suffused with reddish brown ; cilia white with a 

 series of brown marks at base ; the underside white irrorated with 

 brown, traces of a curved postmedial line and diffused subterminal 

 band. 



Hal. Canada, Hudson's Bay (Barnston), 3 5 type and type 

 fasciata, Ottawa (Fletcher, Saunders), I J , 4 5 ; Manitoba, Cart- 

 wright (Heath), 3 (5,12; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Cambridge 

 (Verrill),! J type verrillii, New York Garrison (Coeherell), 2 (5, 

 New Jersey, Distr. of Columbia, Washington, Illinois, Minnesota, 

 Colorado, Glenwood Springs. Exp. 30-38 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Shit. Mus. xxi. p. 160, pi. viii. ff. 33, 34. 



Head shining black. Body black; warts large, the hairs in 

 dense short tufts, pale yellow, leaving a rather broad bare dorsal 

 space. Food-plant : Willow. — H. G. D. 



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3731. Acronycta distans. (Plate CXXVT. fig. 21.) 



Apatela distans, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 58 (1879) ; Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. xxi. p. ltil, pi xiii. ff. (i. 7 ; Smith. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 42. 

 Apatela dolorosa, Dyar, Can. Ent. xxxvi. p. 29 (1904). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown and black ; 2nd 

 joint of palpi with black band ; shoulders and outer edges of patagia 

 streaked with black ; the tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen 

 whitish suffused with red-brown, the dorsal crest dark brown. 

 Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with dark brown, the inner 

 area suffused with dark brown to medial line leaving some whitish 

 at base of inner margin ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 strife from costa and single striga from cell with slight black streak 

 beyond it in suhmedian fold defined by whitish above ; antemedial 

 line double filled in with grey, waved, nearly erect, the medial 

 area with whitish streak in subrnedian fold ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by black, the former round with dark point in 

 centre, the latter suffused with brown and with the black on outer 

 edge reduced to points ; an obique dark bar from costa to reniform 

 and indistinct oblique dentate line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line black, defined by whitish on inner side, 

 bent outwards below costa, then rather strongly dentate, strongly 

 incurved below vein 3 and angled outwards on vein 1, some whitish 

 points with slight dark streaks between them beyond it on costa, 

 the postmedial area suffused with brown ; an indistinct whitish 

 subterminal line with slight blackish marks on its outer edge, 

 incurved in subrnedian interspace ; a series of small black spots on 

 termen and base of cilia which have black stria? at tips. Hind wing 

 white, the base slightly tinged with yellowish, the veins and 

 terminal area to vein 2 with brown ; the underside with the costal 

 area slightly irrorated with brown, a small blackish discoidal spot. 

 Ah. 1. dolorosa. Darker. — Br. Columbia. 



Ilnb. Canada, Ottawa (Fletcher), 1 (5 , Mont real( Caulfie hi), 1 J, 



