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of fore wing red-brown with some yellow on disk ; hind wing yellow, 

 the costal and terminal areas suffused with red-brown, a small black 

 discoidal lunule. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing without the streak beyond the lower extremity 

 of stigma. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary {WoUey-Dod), 1 $, Br. 

 Columbia, Athabasca {Mrs. NicoU), 1 6; U.S.A., Colorado, 

 South Park, New Mexico. Exp. 32-38 millim. 



8235. Syngrapha falcifera. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 9.) 



Vhma falcifera, Kirby, Faun. Bor.-Am. iv. p. 308(1837); Ottolengui, 



J. N.y. Ent. Soc. X. pi. ix. f. 2. 

 Tlusia siviplex, Giien. Noct. ii. p. 34G (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Ain. 



p. 2.")(i. 

 Plusia falcifera, Suiitli, Cat. Noct. IS". Am. p. 254 (1893). 



Head and thorax pale grey mixed with red-brown ; tegulse 

 whitish at tips ; a slight curved whitish line across patagia and 

 mesbthorax ; abdomen pale grey tinged with brown, the crests 

 dark brown at tips. Fore wdng pale grey tinged and irrorated 

 with brown, the medial area below the cell suffused with 

 chocolate-brown ; subbasal line represented by a curved whitish 

 sti-iga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct and whitish to median 

 nervure, then silvery-white, angled outwards below costa, incmwed 

 in cell, then oblique ; traces of a very narrow oblique orbicular with 

 whitish outline ; a rather smaU oblique silvery Y-shaped stigma 

 below the cell, its tail dilated at extremity ; reniform faintly defined 

 by brown, very narrow ; postmedial line indistinct, double, red- 

 brown filled in with grey and with silver towards inner margin, 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, oblique to vein 2, 

 then erect ; subtenuinal line red-brown, excurved below vein 7, 

 slightly angled inwards at vein 4 and outwards below veins 4 and 

 3, crossed b}^ an oblique cupreous brown shade from apex to vein 4 ; 

 the terminal area Avhitish grey. Hind wing yellowish white, the 

 basal area with some red-brown suffusion ; an oblique diffused red- 

 brown postmedial line, the terminal area red-brown ; cilia white 

 with a red-brown line near base ; the underside white, the costal 

 and tenninal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal striga and 

 diffused oblique postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. su/qjiex. Fore wing much more suffused with red- 

 brown, the medial area below the cell deep chocolate-brown with 

 some fiery red before the postniedial line. 



Hab. Canada, Anticosti I., 1 $ , Hudson's Bay, Albany R., 

 St. Martin's Falls (Barns(oii), 2 J , 1 5 , Ontario, Orillia (Bush), 

 1 $ , Alberta, Calgary ( WoIIei/-I)od),2 d , Br. Columbia, Coldstream 

 Ranch (Miss Bicardo), 1 $, Nepigon (Fletcher), 1 6 ; U.S.A., 

 East of Rocky Mts., 3 d" , New York, Trenton Falls (Doiibleday), 

 1 6 type simplex, Illinois. 1 $, Texas, Dallas (Boll), G d, 



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