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XOCTUID.i:. 



8432. Palaeoplusia venusta. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 24.) 



Pluina vemista, Wlk. xxxiii. 836 (1805) ; Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. 



pi. vii. f. 11 ; Smith, Ciit. Noct. IV. Am. p. 248. 

 riasia striafcUa, Grote, Bull. Euff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 194 (1873). 



Head and thorax oehreous tinged with rufous ; antenna? rufous ; 

 patagia with oblique rufous bars at base edged behind by whitish ; 

 abdomen oehreous. Fore wing bright rufous ; the costal area 

 oehreous, broadly beyond the cell where it extends to vein 5 ; the 

 inner area oclu'eous, extending to just above vein 1, "which is 



Fig. 127. — Falaoplusia venuita , J. \. 



streaked witJi rufous, except at base ; a silvery-white streak from 

 below middle of cell to near termen above vein 2 ; a black point at 

 upper angle of cell ; a fine brown terminal line defined on inner 

 side by an oehreous line except towards tornus, the rufous curving 

 upwards on its inner side to below apex ; cilia oclu'eous, the tips 

 pale rufous. Hind wing oehreous suffused with glossy brown ; 

 a slight oehreous line before the fine terminal brown line ; cilia 

 oehreous ; the underside oehreous, the terminal half faintly tinged 

 with rufous except towards tornus, a slight brown discoidal lunule. 

 Hah. Canada, Ontario, Orillia (JBt/sJi), 1 $ tvpe, Alberta, 

 Calgary {WoUe,j-Dod), 2 c^ ; U.S.A., Maine, New York, 2 d" , 

 Distr. of Colmubia. Exp. 34-38 millim. 



Genus ABROSTOLA. 



Ahrosfola, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 88 (181G), non descr. ; Type. 



Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., JTaust. iii. p. 9f) (1829) iripluda. 



Inguridia, Butl. A. M. N. II. (5) iv. p. 354 (1879) ahrostolina, 



Probosfis fully cleveloped ; jmlpi uptuinod, the 2nd joint re.iching to about 

 vertex of head and moderately .scaled, tlie 3i'd ratlur long; f'rons smooth 

 with large tuft of hair, a flattened tutt of hair between anteniia> ; eyes large, 

 round, overhung by long cilia; antennre of male minutely ciliated; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales, the nieso- and metathorax with large 



