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hairs intermixed ; legs black ; tibine pale above ; thighs with a pale spot 

 at the base and a])ex. 



This is nearly related to the preceding species, but is much smaller ; 

 and the painting and spotting of the wings difTer materially. 



' [A species of //;r//« ,• taken in Canada.] 



[305.] 427. LiTHOSL\ iMiNiATA Kirh}\ — E.xpansion of the wings 

 I Yz inch. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



Head, trunk, base and apex of the abdomen, costal and anal margin, 

 mesal forked stripe of the primary wings, and base of the secondary, 

 miniatous or of the colour of red lead ; two longitudinal stripes and the 

 space between the apical fork of the primaries, apex of the secondaries, 

 and middle of the abdomen, slate-coloured. 



[Belongs to the genus Hypoprepia Hiibn. ; not uncommon in Canada.] 



FAMILY CTENUCHIDil':. 



428. Ctenucha Latreillana Kirby. — Expansion of wings 2^ 

 inches. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby, and in Nova Scotia by Dr. Mac 

 Culloch. 



[306.] Body, and primary wings, light-brown. Antennae and anal 

 hairs black ; head and base of the primaries, bright orange ; trunk, back 

 of the abdomen, and outside of the thighs, cyaneous or blue-green ; fringes 

 of the wings white, but in the middle of the posterior margin brown ; 

 secondaries short. 



[Previously described under the specific name of virginica Charp. \ 

 quite common in Canada.] 



FAMILY NGCTUID.^:. 



429. Plusia rectangula Kirby. — Expansion of wings i^ inch. 

 Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



Body cinereous, underneath whiter. Antennae testaceous ; thorax 

 crested ? as the scales are mostly rubbed off this cannot however be posi- 

 tively asserted ; wings incumbent ; primaries with a subcrenate edge ; 

 inclining to ash-coloured, clouded with black, with a subramose rectangu- 

 lar somewhat silvery spot, extending from near the base to the middle of 

 the wing ; between which and the apex is a narrow white wavy band, edged 



