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line double, blackish, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and 

 sinuous ; subterminal line black, excurved below rein 7, at middle 

 and below submedian fold ; a whitish terminal line. Hind wing 

 ochreous, tlie basal area tinged with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown ; cilia Avhite with brown spots at the veins. 



H((b. Alaska, Alter I. (Tt/nwr). Exp. 34 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from tvpe in 

 U.S. Xat. Mus. 



8246. Syngrapha excelsa. (Plate CCXXXA^I. fig. 19.) 



Autographa excelsa, Ottolengiii, J. N.Y. Eut. Soc. x. p. 71, pi. vi. f. 3 

 (l<J02j ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 202. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown. Fore 

 wing grey-white, thickly irrorated with brown ; subbasal line 

 double, blackish filled in with white, from costa to vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line double, blackish filled in with white, excurved below 

 costa, angled inwards in cell, then oblique and sinuous ; orbicular 

 with slight whitish annulus, oblique ; a V-shaped white striga below 

 the cell, its lower extremity bent slightly outwards and with a 

 round spot beyond it ; reniform with slight pale annulus, narrow ; 

 postmedial line double, blackish filled in with whitish, bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique to submedian fold whei'e it is slightly 

 angled inwards, then excurved, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line blackish defined on inner side by a brown 

 shade and on outer slightly by white, excurved below vein 7 and 

 angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; cilia chequered white and 

 brown. Hind wing yellowish suffused with red-brown, the terminal 

 area brown ; cilia chequered white and brown ; the underside 

 yelloAvish thickly ii-rorated with brown, the terminal area suffused 

 with brown. 



Ab. 1. Foi'e wing with the spot beyond the stigma absent. 



Hah. Caxada, Alberta, Laggan, Banff {Sanson), 1 $ ; U.S.A., 

 New Hampshire, Washington Forest Keserve, State Creek {Mrs. 

 Nicholl), 1 $ . Exp. 34 millim. 



8247. Syiigrapha angulidens. (Plate CCXXXYI. fig. 20.) 



riusia angitlidcns, Smith, Trans, Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. Ill (1891); 

 Ottolengiii, J. N.Y. Eut. Soc. x. p. 71, i^l. viii. f. 5 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 255, 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with black-brown ; pectus 

 brownish white; legswhiti.sh mixed with black-brown, the tarsi black- 

 brown ringed Avith white ; abdomen grey mixed with brown, the 

 crests blackish. Fore wing purple-grey irrorated \\lx\\ black-brown, 

 the medial area with some black-ljrown below the cell ; subbasal line 

 black defined on outer side by white, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line double, black filled in with whitisli, angled inwards 

 in cell, then oblique, Avaved; orbicular defined by black-brown, small, 



