SYNGEAPHA. 421 



8238. Syngrapha epigaea. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 10.) 



Plusia cjjigaa, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 208; Ottolengui, 

 J. N.Y.'Ent. Soc. x. pi. vii. f. 1(5 ; Smiih, Cat. Nuct. N. Am. p. 255. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; a blackish line 

 between antennje ; teguhti -with two Ijlack lines and white tips ; 

 patagia with two oblique black bars ; the dorsal crest inifous in 

 front and Avith white tips ; pectus grey tinged with rufous ; tarsi 

 dark bro\ra ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with rufous, 

 the crests black-brown tipped with white. Fore wing grey tinged 

 in jxai-ts Avith red-brown and irrorated with black, the medial area 

 with a patch of deep red-bro^\^l suffusion below the cell ; subbasal 

 line double, black-brown, excurved below costa, then oblique and 

 ending at subcostal nei-vure ; antemedial line double, black-brown, 

 excurved below costa, bent inwards in cell, then oblique and sinuous ; 

 orbicular witli brownish centre and diffu.sed whitish annulus, oblique 

 and irregularly elliptical ; a fine oblicpie silverj'-white Y-shaped 

 stigma below the cell, its arms filled in with grey, its tail dilated 

 into a small spot ; reniform with whitish annulus defined at side by 

 black-brown, oblique bar-shaped ; postmedial line double, reddish 

 brown fillled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line brown, waved, angled outwards below 

 veins 7, 4, 3 ; a fine waved brown tenninal line and whitish line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing cupreous red-brown with a pale 

 postmedial shade and the terminal area darker ; cilia white with a 

 maculate brown line near base ; the underside whitish suffused and 

 irrorated with red-brown especially on terminal area, a slight 

 discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the tail of the stigma ahnost obsolete. 



Hoh. U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, 1 d" , 1 ? type, 

 Washington, 1 5 , Colorado. Exp. 44 millim. 



8239. Syngrapha selecta. (Plate CCXXXYI. fig. 11.) 



Flusia selecta, Wlk. xii. 912 (1857) ; Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pi. ix. 



f. 7; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 2.^5. 

 Plusia viri(lisiff?na, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 73 (1874). 

 Flusia viridisignata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p, 315 (1874). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown ; a brown 

 line between antennaj ; tegulae with three brown lines defined by 

 white ; patagia with two oblique lines and a short bar between 

 them ; dorsal crest tipped with white ; tarsi dark broAvn ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the crests black- 

 brown tipped with white. Fore wing purplish silvery-grcA' thickly 

 irrorated with dark brown ; subbasal line double, slightly excurved 

 below costa, then oblique and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 douljle, dark brown, angled outwards below costa, strongly bent 

 inwards in cell, then o1)lique and waved ; orbicular with whitisli 



