416 xocTUiD.?:. 



cilia brown at base, chequeivcl white and brown at tips ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas suffused with red-brown, 

 a slight discoidal lunule. 



Ab. 1. Fore wiug with the stigma V-shaped. 



Rab. X.E. Ger.maxy; Austeia, Tirol; Sc.vxdixatta. Lap- 

 land, Leech Coll. ; Fixlaxd, Leech Coll. ; ErssiA, Livonia, Zellor 

 Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller, Frey, & Leech Colls. ; ? Balklo" State.s. 

 Kvj). 30-32 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Bolt. & Moths Eur. p. 272 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 299. 



Violet slightly u-rorated with Avhite, and with yellow lateral line. 



Food-plant, Salix. 4—5. 



8231. Syngrapha orophila. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. o.) 



Aufoffrapha diasema, Ottolenf^ui, J. >'.Y. Ent. Sue. x. pi. viii. f. G (nee 



Buisd.). 

 Tliisia orophila, Hinpsu. Can. Ei.t. xl. p. 105 (1908). 



Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with brown ; tarsi dark brown 

 rino-ed with white ; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with broAvn, 

 veiiti-allT in-orated with brown. Fore wing blue-grey slightly 

 irroi-ated Avith black, the medial area below the cell very deep 

 chocolate-brown ; subbasal line slight, bkckish, sinuous, from costa 

 to vein 1 ; antemedial line blackish defined on inner side by whitish, 

 excurved below costa. incuiwed in cell, then obliquely curved; 

 orbicular with very shght whitish annulus and its centre faintly 

 defined by brown "' above ; a large U-shaped silvery-white stigma 

 filled in with grey below the cell; renifonn with shght silvery- 

 white annulus defined at sides by black-brown and its centre defined 

 by black-brown, constricted at middle; postmedial line double, 

 dark brown fiUed in with whitish, bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below discal fold ; the terminal area tinged with brown 

 except towards tornus ; a shght minutely waved bro^ra subteiiuinal 

 line defined on outer side by' grey and slightly excurved below veins 

 7 and 6 ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules defined on inner 

 side by whitish. Hind wing yellow, the basal and inner areas 

 irrorated AA^th brown, the temiinal area dark broAvn ; cilia white 

 with a broAvn line through them ; the underside yellow, the costal 

 area in-orated with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with red- 

 brown, a slight discoidal lunule. 



Hah. Caxada, Br. Cokmibia. Brobokton Creek {Mrs. Xiclwll), 

 7 cJ, 1 2 ty])e ; L^.S.A., Washington Forest Resen'e, Early 

 Winter Q\'e^\.\Mrs. XiclwU), 1 6 . ^Exp. 34^0 milhm. 



8232. Syngrapha diasema. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 6.) 



Flusia diasema, Boisd. Ind. Mctb. p. 93 (18-29); Herr.-Scbaff. Enr. 



Sehmett., Noct. f. 597 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 256 ; Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. '239. 



Pliisia borea. Auriv. Bihang K. Svenek. Vet.-Akad. Handl. xr. 4. i. p. \i, 



pi. i. f. 8 (1890). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark red-brown ; tarsi dark 



brown ringed with wliite'; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the 



