STNGRAPIIA. 425 



suffused in parts with brown and irrorated Avith black, the terminal 

 area with some silvery-white ; subbasal line black defined at sides 

 by white, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, 

 blackish filled in with with silvery-white, angled outwards below 

 costa, incurved in cell, then oblique and waved ; orbicular with 

 slight white annulus and its centre defined by black, oblique, ellip- 

 tical ; a silvery-white irregular U-shaped stigma below the cell with 

 a small round white spot beyond its lower extremity, some black- 

 brown suffusion round it ; reniform with incomplete white annulus, 

 its centre defined by black, constricted at middle where there is a 

 black spot beyond it ; postmedial line blackish defined on outer side 

 by white and on inner side also on costal half, bent outwards below 

 costa, then oblique and waved, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line black defined on inner side b}^ brown suf- 

 fusion and on outer by white suffusion, excurved below vein 7, 

 angled oiitwards below veins 4 and 3, then waved; a terminal series 

 of black lunvdes defined on inner side b}' W'hite lunules with rather 

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

 Hind wing with the basal area reddish brown followed by a narrow 

 diffused whitish band, the terminal area dark brown; cilia chequered 

 brown and Avhite ; the underside white tinged and irrorated witli 

 brown, a dark discoidal lunule and oblique postmedial line, the ter- 

 minal area suifused with brown. 



Hah. Ca>'aba, Nova Scotia ; U.S.A., New Hampshire, Mt. 

 Wa.shington, 1 $ , New York, Adirondack Mts., Alpine (Grote), 1 c5' , 

 2^. ^^^;. 38 millim. 



8244 . Syngrapha octoscripta. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 17.) 



Plusia octoscripta, Grote, Eull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 72 (1874) ; Otto- 



lengui, J. N.Y. Eiit. Soc. x. pi. viii. f. 14; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 254. 

 Plusia 8-signata, Grote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 72 (1874). 

 Plusia cpsilon, Ottolengui, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. ii. p. 494 (1900); 



id. J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pi. vi. f. 8 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 201. 

 Autor/rapha ccta, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 70, pi. ri. f. 1 (1902) ; 



Djar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 202. 

 Autoqraj'ha variana, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 70, pi. ri. f. 10 



(1902) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 201. 

 Autofjraplia jMllida, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 71, pi. vi. f. 7 



(1902) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 202. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with white; tegulse with black 

 line at middle defined behind by white and white tips, the patagia 

 with l)lack l«r near tips which are white ; tibiai at extremities and 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown, 

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

 suffused in parts with brow'n and irrorated with black ; subbasal 

 line ])lackish defined at sides by silvery-white, oblique, waved, from 

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

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

 oblique, waved; an irregular silvery-white U-shaped stigma defined 



