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3811. Andropolia contacta. 



Acronycta contacta, Wlk. is. 58 (1856); Smith, Cat Noct. N. Am. p. 166. 

 Acronycta aspera, Morr. Proe. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 132 (1874). 

 Polia diffusilis, Harv. Can. Ent. x. p. 56 (1878). 



Folia sansar, Streck. Lep. Rhop. Het., Suppl. i. p. 8 (1898) ; Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 120. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown and fuscous ; 

 frons with blackish bar; tegulse with slight blackish medial line; 

 patagia with blackish streak near upper edge ; abdomen grey 

 suffused with brown. Fore wing blue-grey tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with black, the terminal area darker, the veins with dark 

 streaks ; subbasal line dentate, from costa to submedian fold ; 



Fig. 39. — Andro2)oUa contacta, J . J. 



antemedial line blackish slightly defined by white on inner side, 

 oblique, angled outwards below costa and above inner margin and 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform narrow, rather indistinctly defined by 

 black; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former rather 

 oblique elliptical ; an indistinct medial line oblique from costa to 

 lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6, then inwardly oblique and 

 dentate, the area beyond it rather greyer to the subterminal line 

 which is represented by a series of dentate blackish marks, the grey 

 area forming strong teeth on veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous ; a terminal series of small black lunules. 

 Hind wing grey suffused and irrorated with brown, the veins and a 

 fine terminal line darker; cilia whitish with a brown line at base; 

 the underside white irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Hudson's Bay, St. Martin's Falls {Barnston), 1 cj" , 

 2 2 type; U.S.A., Jv^ew York, Adirondack Mts., Lewis Co. {W. W. 

 Hill), 1 (S type diffusilis, Washington. Exj). 50-5-1 millim. 



3812. Andropolia pallifera. (Plate CXXYII. fig. 32.) 



Folia pallifera, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 88 (1877); Smith, Oat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 166. 



$ . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; tegulae with slight 



