584 NOCTUID^. 



outwards Ijclow costa, ol)li(iiK'ly excurvecl to lower angle of cell, 

 then curved downwards and hooked below origin of vein 2, then 

 oblique and sinuous to inner margin near base ; reniform with 

 white ainiulus and its centre defined by red-brown, concave towards 

 base, an oblique chocolate-brown shade before it from costa ; post- 

 medial line double, brown filled in with white and defined on outer 

 side by white, the inner line towards costa and the outer line 

 towards inner margin darker and more prominent, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, incurved just Ijelow^ vein 3 and 

 bent inwards to iinier margin ; subterminal line black-browii, 

 rather diffused on inner side, evenly curved, the area beyond it 

 violaceous white with a red-brown line be^'ond the subterminal line 

 and a black terminal line ; cilia with fine white lines at base and 

 middle. Hind A\'in2: whitish suffused with red-brown, the terminal 

 area darker ; cilia brown at base, white at tips ; the miderside 

 whitish tinged with red-brown, traces of a curved postmedial line 

 and a fine dark terminal fine. 



Hab. U.S.A., Maine, Massachusetts, New York in Coll. ^\. 

 Barnes, New Jersey. Exp. 36 millim. 



Larva. Kearfott, Ent. New Pbilacl. xv. p. 301. 



Head small, each somite increasing in height, the anal somite 

 three or four times height of head and vertical behind ; pea-green 

 Avith waved white dorsal stripe and each somite A\dth white band. 

 Food-plant, Vacciniiiin. Spins a loose cottony cocoon. 5. 



8434. Abrostola ovalis. (Pkte CCXXXIX. fig. 26.) 



Ahrostola ovalis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 322, pi. 11. f. 11 (1852); Smith, Cat. 

 IS'oct. N. Am. p. 2irj. 



6 • Head and tegulse brown mixed with grey, a black bar 

 between antennae, the tegulse with black line near base and some 

 black scales at tips ; patagia pinkish white edged -with red-brown 

 above and -with red-brown bar at middle ; thorax ochreous w'hite ; 

 pectus in front and legs brown, the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 brown mixed with grey, some ochreous hair at base of sides. Fore 

 wing with the basal area pinkish wliite irrorated with red-brown 

 and with slight red-brown subbasal marks below costa and cell and 

 on vein 1 ; antcmedial fine double, the oviter line black, the inner 

 red-brown, strongly and evenly excurved ; orbicular, renifonn, and 

 a spot l)elow the former large, defined by black and \\\t\\ raised 

 black scales on their edges, the orbicular oblique and open above 

 and below, the reniform elliptical ; postmedial line double, in- 

 distinct to vein 5, then the inner line black, the outer red-brown, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa. slightly waved to vein 5, then 

 oblique, excvu'ved below submedian fold, some gi'ey points witli 

 blackish streaks bet^xeen them beyond it on costa and a whitish 

 patch on inner area ; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, minutely 

 dentate ; a black terminal line. Hind wing with the basal half 

 whitish suffused with brown, the terminal half brown ; cilia white 



