AUEOSTOLA. 585 



witli some brown at base; the underside ochreous white, the 

 costal area iiTorated with brown, the terminal area brown, a dark 

 disooidal lunule. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York (Dotibleclai/), 

 1 d t}^e, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Sxp. 36 millim. 



8435. Abrostola urentis. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 27.) 



Ahro.^^ola urcntis, Guen. Noet. ii. p. 322 (1852) ; Smith, Cat.Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 246. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; black bars above 

 frons and between antennae ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey mixed Avith brown, the crests blackish. Fore wing 

 brown mixed -svith grey ; subbasal line blackish, from costa to 

 sul^median fold; antemedial Une black defined on inner side by 

 red-brown, slighth^ and evenly excm-ved ; orbicular, reniform, and a 

 spot below the former large, defined by black and with some raised 

 scales on theii- edges, the orbicular and spot below it oblique and 

 open above and below ; postmedial line double, indistinct to vein 3, 

 then the inner line black and the outer red-broA\ii, bent outwards 

 below costa. then shghtly simious to vein 4, then slightly incurved, 

 some whitish points with dark streaks between them beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line grey defined on each side by brown, -with 

 slight double dentate black mark before it below costa and some 

 black beyond it at apex and above tornus, minutely dentate; a 

 black terminal line and dark line near base of cilia. Hind wing 

 Avith the basal half whitish suffused with brown, the terminal half 

 dark brown ; cilia white with some brown at base ; the underside 

 white irrorated with brown on costal half, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown except towards tornus, a shght brown dis- 

 coidal lunule and traces of diffused waved postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines. 



Kab. Caxada, Eenfrew Co. (Grofe), 1 d , Nova Scotia 

 {Bed man), 1 ?, Manitoba, Winnipeg (WaUis), 2 $, Van- 

 couver I. {Livingston), 1 d , 1 $ ; U.S.A., south to Distr. of 

 Columbia. Middle and Central States, 4 S , Massachusetts, Beverly, 

 1 2 . New York, Albanv (Hill), 1 d , Trenton Falls {Boubleday), 

 1 d , 1 $ type. Exp[ 30-34 millim. 



843G. Abrostola tripartita. 



Noctua tripariila, Hufn. Berl. 3Iag. iii. p. 414 (1767); SUiud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 235. 

 Noctua asclepiacJca, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 169. ff. 4, 5 (nee ScbifF). 

 Noctua triplasia, Hiibn. Eur. Schinett., Noct. f. 269 (nee Linn.). 

 Noctua urticce, Hiibu. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 625 (1818) ; Frr. Neuo Beitr. 



pi. 287. 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with red-brown and white ; 

 black bars above frons and between antenna? ; teguUe white edged 

 with black-brown and with curved black-brown line at middle ; 



