LITHOMCEA. 21 L 



angled outwards to termen on veins 4, 3, then incurved ; a terminal 

 series of Blight black lunules ; cilia brown intersected with white, 

 with a fine dark line near base. Hind wing whitish tinged with 

 reddish brown, the terminal area sull'iised with fuscous; cilia white 

 with a brown line near base from apex to vein 2 ; the underside 

 white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown and the 

 latter tinged with grey, a dark discoidal lunule, diffused curved 

 postmedial line, and tine black terminal line. 



Bab, Canada (Norman), 1 6 , Ottawa (Fletcher), 2 ,■ . :; $, 

 London (Saunders), 1 J, Orillia (Bush), 1 9 5 Alberta, Calgary 

 (WoJkji-Dod), .'5 rf, 6 J; U.S.A., Eastern and Central States to 

 Virginia, New Hampshire, New York, Trenton Falls (DoUbleday), 

 2 c?, 3 c?, type and type contraria, Sharon, 2 c? , 3 §, Evans 

 Center (Grote), 2 $. Exp. 38-46 millim. 



Larva. Head shining brown. Dorsum yellow-brown, sides 

 darker, cross-barred in darker brown ; substigmatal band broad, 

 pale, edged with brown, with a white line on joints 2-3, and on 

 toot of 13 ; feet brown. Eood-plants : Various. — H. G. I). 



3823. Lithomcea brunneicrista. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 28. ) 



Hi/ppa brunneicrista, ^uiirh. Can. Em. xxxiv. p. 31 (1902); Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. X. Am. p. 121. 



Head and thorax grey ; palpi dark at sides ; vertex of head with 

 the hair tipped with vinous red ; tegulas with prominent medial 

 black line ; patagia red-brown edged with black and grey above ; 

 metatkoracic crest tipped with rufous ; abdomen grey and fuscous 

 brown mixed. Fore wing grey irrorated and suffused with dark 

 brown, the inner area darkest, the medial area with some rufous 

 suffusion above submedian fold ; a black streak, edged with white 

 above, below base of cell, some rufous scales below its extremity ; 

 subbasal line represented by a black point below costa ; antemedial 

 line black, partly defined by white on inner side, minutely dentate 

 below costa, very strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and 

 above inner margin and inwards on vein 1, a black streak in sub- 

 median fold from it to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 rather large, grey defined by black, the former elongate elliptical, 

 the latter rather produced at extremities ; postmedial line unusually 

 near termen, obsolescent and greyish from costa to vein 5, then black 

 defined by whitish on outer side, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and sinuous, the area 

 beyond it greyer, becoming whitish below vein '3 and tinged with 

 rufous in submedian fold ; subterminal line represented by slight 

 black streaks in the interspaces towards costa, then defined by the 

 difference between the grey and fuscous terminal area, angled 

 outwards to termen on veins 4, 3; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia blackish with whitish line at base. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, becoming whitish towards base ; cilia whitish with 

 fuscous tips ; the underside grey irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal 

 spot showing through to upperside, and curved postmedial line. 



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