GOyOSPILEIA. 51 



7821. Gonospileia cuspidea. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 3.) 



Drasteria CK.s;?/V7ra, Hiibn. Zutr. ex. Schmett. i. p. 16. flP. 69-70 (1818); 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 319. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark chocolate-brown suffu.sed with 



gi'ev. Fore wing dark chocolate-brown suffused with grey : a round 



black spot just above inner margin before the antemedial dee]) 



chocolate-bro^vn band, its inner edge strongly incurved above vein 1 



over the black spot, its outer edge obliquely excurved ; an indistinct 



sinuous medial line with an oblique elliptical brown annulus beyond 



it in and below angle of cell cutting into the lower edge of the 



indistinct elliptical greyish reniform which lias a triangular deep, 



chocolate-brown patch beyond it ; postmedial line chocolate-brown 



with a pale grey patch before it below the costa and slightly 



defined on outer side by pale gi'ey, bent outwards below costa, 



incurved below vein 6 and .^^lightly excurved at submedian fold ; a 



chocolate-brown patch beyond it fi-om costa to vein 6 with some 



])ale points at costa, its outer edge defined by black and acutely 



angled outwards above vein 6 ; a very faint waved gi'ey subtenninal 



line from vein 6 to inner margin with a series of small blackish 



spots beyond it followed by a pale grey shade ; the terminal area 



suffu.sed with red-brown ; a fine waved brown tenninal line ; cilia 



red-brown mixed with some grey. Hind wing with the basal half 



dark brown, the terminal half cupreous reddish brown ; the dark 



area defined by a sinuous dark line from middle of costa to tomus ; 



a narrow dark brown subterminal band with somewhat dentate outer 



edge ; the termen suffiised with brown from apex to vein 3 ; a 



waved dark brown terminal line ; cilia red-bro^\Ti mixed with some 



grey. Underside of both Avings with the basal half dark brown, 



the terminal half pale red-broMTi, irrorated with brown ; fore wing 



with the dark area extending to the subterminal line except towards 



costa. 



Hind tibiae sometimes with one or two spines above the medial 

 spui-s. 



Hah. Arctic America, Slave R. (Toi/Io)'), 1 cJ ; Canada, 

 Ottawa (Mm. XicJioU), 1 d, Br. Columbia,' ilabel Lake (Brooks), 

 1 (S , Pentecton (Jlrs. XicJioIl), 1 c? , 1 $ , Greenwood (Mrs. XicJioH), 

 1 2, Li'. Kootenay, Nelson (3Irs. XicJioII). 4 $, Okanagan R., 

 Up. Keremeos (2£rs. NiclwU), 2 c? , 1 $ ; Vancouter I., Cor- 

 vichan Bay ( Livi>ir/.sfo)i), 1 c^ . Ladysmith (L/riiifjsfon), 1 $ ; 

 U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, Middle, and Central States, Xew York 

 (Packard), 2 d , 4 $ , Kansas (Snotc), 2 $, Texas, Dallas (BoU), 

 1 J, Califomia (Wahingham), 2 J , 2 2, Knights Yallev, 1 $, 

 Hanlah, 1 $ . Exp. 30-42 millim. 



Ef/g. Lembeit, Can. Ent. xxvii. p. 107. 



Pea-green with deep vertical lines. 



Larva. 1st stage. A slender looper ; thoracic somites pale green, 

 then dark green to the somites which carry the prolegs, of which 

 there are two pairs, then pale green. Food-plant : clover. 



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