252 NOCTURNALi LEPIDOPTERA FOUND IN CANADA. 



sprinkled here and there with black marks, of which some have 

 the centre white. Spots on the eleventh almost horizontal. Abbofc 

 figures it on the Calycanthus Jloridus (Carolina allspice), but it 

 lives also on oaks. Pupa, red, without efflorescence. 



2. II. NIGRICANS, Bethune. ' Pi'o. Ent. Soc. Philada. iv. 214. 



Black, with a deep purplish-brown tinge, cinereous beneath. Tho- 

 rax, black, brownish in front, where it is crossed by two narrow black 

 lines ; tegulse also crossed by two Jines composed of pale atoms, the 

 hinder one edged with deep black. Anterior wings, deep brownish- 

 black, darkest along the costa ; the two basal lines double, black, dis- 

 tinct, the outer one followed by a slightly paler band ; median space, 

 brownish-black, deepened by three tolerably distinct, transverse, wavy 

 black lines ; elbowed line very distinct, undulating, narrow, and deep 

 black, its posterior half doubled ; sub-terminal line, pale fuscous, with 

 some scattered glaucous atoms for half its length, then deep velvety- 

 black and doubled, forming, as is usual in this genus, a large lunule ; a 

 marginal series of pale fuscous lunules, edged interiorly with a darker 

 shade ; orbicular spot denoted by a black dot ; reniform, black, indis- 

 tinct, with a small whitish spot on its under side. 



Posterior wings, of the same general colour as the anterior. But 

 becoming gradually paler towards the base, which is cinereous ;. 

 median portion of the wings crossed by a number of dark, wavy, 

 tolerably distinct lines, terminated by a very fine black line; terminal 

 portion of the wing enclosed by a deep velvety-black line, a continua- 

 tion of that on the anterior wings, edged with fuscous exteriorly, and 

 followed by a blackish band, speckled with glaucous atoms, and a 

 series of lunules as on the anterior wings. 



Under side, cinereous, darker towards the exterior margin ; anterior 

 wings with a black discal dot, a faintly indicated transverse line, and 

 a series of marginal dots between the nervures, black, edged with 

 white ; posterior wings with a black discal lunule, three very wavy 

 black lines, the outer one almost obsolete anteriorly, and a marginal 

 series of black white-edged dots. 



Length of body, '19 in. ; alar expansion, 2'3 inches. 



Hab. Toronto ; in August. 



3. H. LUNATA, Drury. Guen. Noet. iii. 19. Walk. 0. B. M. 

 xiii. 1053. 



Wood-brown, varied with d^p blue-black. Antennae and palpi,. 



