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3811. Andropolia contacta. 



Acronycta contacta, Wlk. is. 58 (1850); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 166. 

 Acronycta aspera, Morr. Proe. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 132 (187-4). 

 Folia diffusilis, Harv. Can. Ent. x. p. 56 (1878). 



Folia sansar, Streck. Lep. Rhop. Het., Suppl. i. p. 8 (1898) ; Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 120. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown and fuscous ; 

 frons with blackish bar; teguke with slight blackish medial line; 

 patagia with blackish streak near upper edge ; abdomen grey 

 suffused with brown. Fore wing blue-grey tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with black, the terminal area darker, the veins with dark 

 streaks ; subbasal line dentate, from costa to submedian fold ; 





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Fig. 39. — Andropolia contacta, cJ. \. 



antemedial lino blackish slightly defined by white on inner side, 

 oblique, angled outwards below costa and above inner margin and 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform narrow, rather indistinctly defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former rather 

 oblique elliptical ; an indistinct medial line oblique from costa to 

 lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6, then inwardly oblique and 

 dentate, the area beyond it rather greyer to the subterminal line 

 which is represented by a series of dentate blackish marks, the grey 

 area forming strong teeth on veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous ; a terminal series of small black lunules. 

 Hind wing grey suffused and irrorated with brown, the veins and a 

 fine terminal line darker; cilia whitish with a brown line at base; 

 the underside white irrorated with brown, a disco jdal spot and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. Canada, Hudson's Bay, St. Martin's Falls (Barnston), 1 J, 

 2 5 type; U.S.A., New York. Adirondack Alts., Lewis Co. ( W. W. 

 JIM), 1 J type diffusilis, Washington. Exp. 50-54 millim. 



3812. Andropolia pallifera. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 32.) 



Folia pallifera, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 88 (1877); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 166. 



$ . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; tegulae with slight 



