■421 ^'0CTL■ID.lc. 



8242. Syugraplia alias. (Plate CCXXXVI. Hg. lo.) 



Aufoqrapha alkif, Ottolengiii, J. N.Y. Eiit. Soc. x. p. 69, pi. viii. ff. 7, 13 



i\k)2); Dyar, Cat. L-p. N. Am. p. 2i)l. 

 Tltisia ii-aiireum, Siiiith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 254 (part.). 



Head and thorax dafk brown mixed with Avhite ; tegulie witli 

 slight white medial line and white tips, the patagia with white bar 

 at middle and white tips, the mctathoracic crest tip|)ed with white ; 

 tibiie at extremities and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey 

 suffused with reddish brown, the crests dark browai tipped with 

 white. Fore wing purplish grey suffused in parts with broAvn and 

 irrorated with black, the basal area, inner antemedial area, and 

 terminal area more silveiy-white, the medial area below the cell 

 browner ; subbasalline black defined on outer side by silveiy-white, 

 waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line black defined on inner 

 side bv silvery-white, angled outwards below costa. incurved in cell, 

 then oblique and waved ; orbicular defined by silvery- white exee])t 

 above and rather U-shaped; a silvery- white stigma below the cell, 

 forked above and with two rather claw-like projections below; reni- 

 form with incomplete Avhite annulus and its centre defined by black, 

 constricted at middle where there is a black spot on its outer .side ; 

 postmedial line double, blackish filled it with silvery-white, bent 

 outAvards below costa, then oblique, waved, excurved at middle, 

 a slight golden cupreous mark before it at submedian fold, some 

 Avhite beyond it on costal half and some white points on costa ; 

 subterminal line silvery-white defined on inner side by black with 

 broAvn suffusion before it, excurved below vein 7, angled outwards 

 below veins 4 and 3, then slightly Avaved ; a tenninal series of 

 brown lunules defined on inner side by silvery lunules Avith rather 

 dentate brown marks before them ; cilia chequered white and brown. 

 Hind Aving Avith the basal area red-broAA'n foUoAved by a Avhitish 

 postmedial sliade ; the tenninal area dark broAvn ; cilia chequered 

 broAvn and white ; the underside Avhitish suffused Avith pale red-brown, 

 the terminal area dark broAvn,a blackish discoidal lunule andcurA'ed 

 postmedial line. 



Hab. Canada, Xcav Brunswick, St. John (Jfelifosh), 1 d ; 

 U.S.A., Northern States, New Hampshire. 1 $ , Xcav York. Trenton 

 Falls (Doubleclai/), 1 d , VaUey ( Grofe), 1 $ . Hxj). 40 millim. 



8243. Syugrapha u-aureum. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 16.) 



riusia u-aurtiim, Gucn. >'oct. ii. p. 354 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. .Am. 



p. 254. 

 Phma vaccina, II. Edw. Eiit. Am. ii. p. 170 (1886); Ottolengui. J. N.Y. 



Ent. Soc. X. p. 71, pi. viii. f. 3 ; Smiih, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 254. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed Avith pur])lish grey ; tegidiE 

 Avith slight Avhite line at middle and Avhite tips ; patagia with Avhite 

 bars near base and at middle, and Avhite tips ; tibia^ at exti-emities, 

 the spurs and tarsi ringed Avith Avhite ; abdomen reddish brown, the 

 crests dark broAvn tipped Avith Avhite. Fore Aving pur}>lc-grey 



