8 NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA FOUND IN CANADA. 
tinct: marginal lunules black, edged with white exteriorly. Hind 
wings deep red, with fuscous hairs at the base; the black band mo- 
derately broad, narrow towards the inner margin, which it does not 
reach, with a slight indentation on the outer side between the subme- 
dian and the fourth inferior nervules ; the black border broad, slightly 
wavy on the inner side towards the anal angle, where it becomes very 
narrow ; a narrow white apical streak ; cilize white. Under side very 
similar to that of the preceding species (C’. parta). Length of the 
body, 12-14 lines; alar expansion, 30-34 lines. 
Hab. Cobourg. London, C. W. (Mr. Saunders). St. Martin’s 
Falls, Albany River, Hudson’s Bay (Dr. Barnston). United States. 
5. C. amarrix, Hiibn. Walk.—U. B. M. Noct. 1195. Guén. 
Noct. Ill. 86. 
Brownish cinereous. Thorax with black bands in front, and dark 
lines on the tegula. Abdomen testaceous cinereous. Four wings 
almost rectangular at the apex, the denticulations much rounded ; 
with a black shade proceeding from the middle of the base to the ex- 
tremities of the first two superior nervules, on the exterior margin, 
interrupted in the middle by the subreniform spot, which is whitish 
marked with testaceous ; reniform spot dark testaceous; the two 
median lines exceedingly sinuous, the elbowed has two very long teeth 
on the black shade, then it retreats gradually till it reaches the fourth 
inferior nervule, where it forms a deep sinus enclosing the subreni- 
form spot, and almost touching the inner line, to which it is united by 
a black dash; subterminal line very faint ; usual marginal lunules 
represented by small black points. Hind wings rosy red; the black 
band curved, rounded, and abbreviated, with a notch on the outer side, 
a little before the middle ; the black border very broad on the costa, 
gradually narrowed to the anal angle; ciliz white, sometimes inter- 
rupted with black. Under side of the four wings white, cinereous on 
the exterior margin, with a blackish submarginal band, a deep black 
median one, and another near the base ; of the hind wings, part red 
and part white, with a deep black median band, notched as on the 
upper side, a discal lunule, and a submarginal band, blackish. Length 
of body 12-14 lines; alar expansion 30-32 lines. 
Hab. Toronto, (Dr. Morris). London, C. W., (Mr. Saunders). 
Montreal and Sorel, (Mr. D’Urban). Orillia, (Mr. Bush). Nova 
Scotia and United States. 
6. C. concumBens. Walk.—C. B. M. Noct. 1198. 
‘**Whitish, speckled with black. Thorax brownish in front. Ab- 
domen pale brownish cinereous. Fore wings glaucous-cinereous, 
