-ilS xocTrrB.T:. 



black-brown and witb its centre defined hy l)laek -brown, oblique 

 bar-sbaped ; postmodial line silverv-wliitc faintly defined on eaeb 

 side l)y red-brown on costal bait' and prominently by black-brown on 

 inner half, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved to 

 vein 5, then incurved, and exeurved below submedian fold, some 

 imfous before it on inner half and some yellow beyond it at tornus ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, brownish, angled outwards below veins 

 7, 6, 4, 3, then slightly waved ; the veins of terminal area Avith 

 slight dark streaks ; a fine blackish tenninal line with series of 

 white strite before it ; cilia dark chocolate-brown, chequered brown 

 and white at tips. Hind wing yellow ; the base and inner margin 

 suffused with red-brown ; a slight brown discoldal lunide ; the 

 terminal area dark brown, narrowing to tornus ; cilia chequered 

 white and brown. Underside orange-yellow, the costal and 

 terminal areas suffused with red-brown ; dark discoidal stri:^. 



Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (S/^otc, Bruce). 2 $, Idaho Springs 

 (Osfen-Sficken), 1 2 ^n^- -E'ayx 36-40 millim. 



8234. Syngi-apha snovi. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 8.) 



Pltisia snoivii, H. Edw. Pnpilio, iv. p. 44 (18S4); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. 

 Soc. X. p. 7-^, pi. viii. f. 1(5; Siuitli, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 1^57. 



Head and thorax purple-grey mixed with black-brown ; tegul-e 

 with two black lines towards tips ; jmtagia with two oblique black 

 bars ; the dorsal crest with some red-brown ; pectus and legs red- 

 broAATi and grey, the tarsi dark brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 gre3'-broA\Ti, the crests black at tips. Fore \\ang purple-grey slightly 

 tinged in parts with red-brown and striated with blackish, the 

 medial area below the cell deep eboeolate-broAra ; subbasal line 

 slight, blackish defined on outer side by Avhitish, sinuous, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemtnlial line black defined on inner side bv 

 silvery- white, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then 

 oblique and sinuous ; orbicular with slight grey annulus and its 

 centre defined by black-brown, small, round, a silvery-white 

 U-sha]wd stig)«a below the cell, filled in with grey and its arms 

 defined by red-brown, its inner arm extending along median nervure 

 almost to the antemedial line, a short streak beyond its lower 

 extremity ; I'eniform with slight silvery-white annulus defined by 

 black-brown and its centre defined by blaek-bi-own, oblique L.ir- 

 shaped ; postmedial line double, pale brown filled in in parts with 

 whitish. l)ent outwards beiow costa. then minutely wave.l to vein G, 

 then incurved and exeurved below submedian fold, some iiifous before 

 it on inner half and some yellow beyond it at tornus ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, grey slightly defined on inner side b}' brown, minutely 

 waved, angled outwards below veins 7, 0, 4, 3 ; a series of slight 

 wbitisli striie before termen ; cilia chequered whitish and brown at 

 tii)s. Hind wing yellow ; the base and inner margin suffused with 

 brown ; a slight discoidal lunule ; the terminal area dark brown nar- 

 rowing to tornus ; cilia checpiered dark brown and while. Underside 



