338 i^ocTuiD^. 



slightly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line black with small 

 spot at costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line black 

 with small spot at costa, oblique, waved, angled inwards at vein 1; 

 orbicular a small round blackish spot ; reniform a blackish lunale 

 with some white points on its edges ; medial line blackish with 

 small spot at costa, oblique to the reniform and incurved below the 

 cell ; postmedial line black with small spot at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on 

 inner side by small dentate rufous marks, very slightly excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous ; a terminal series of black points slightly defined by 

 whitish on inner side. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged 

 with brown ; a terminal series of small dark spots from apex to 

 vein 2 ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas slightly 

 irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot, postmedial rather 

 diffused line from costa to vein 5, and terminal series of small spots. 



Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Aweme (CridcUe), 2 (5, Saskatchewan, 

 Regina (Willinc/). I J, Alberta, Calgary {Wolley-Dod, Baird), 

 6 c? 5 1 $ 5 ^^- Columbia (Hiss Ricardo), 1 $ , Vancouver {Haivhins, 

 J. J. Walker), 1 c? , 1 ? type ; U.S.A., Oregon, Dalles, 1 2 , 

 Colorado {Coclcerell), 2 S , Denver (Oslar), 1 c? , 1 5 , jN'evada, 1 c? , 

 California ( Walsingham), 3 J • E.vjy. 32-38 millim. 



Larva. Head small, shining blackish, slightly brown-mottled. 

 Body robust, obscure brown-mottled, with a broad paler dorsal 

 stripe. Cervical shield concolorous wdth body. Food-plants : Low 

 herbs ; lives concealed underground or under leaves. — H. G. D. 



3969. Athetis grisea. (Plate CXXX. fig. 9.) 



Caradrhia grinea, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1848, iii. p. 215, & 1855, iv. p. 324 ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 197. 

 Caradrina cinerascens, Tengstr. IVot. Sails. Flor. & Faun. Fenn. vii. p. 309 



(1870). 



Head and thorax white tinged with red-brown and slightly 

 irrorated wdth fuscous ; palpi black, white at tips ; antennae fuscous 

 except at base ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen white 

 mixed with some brown. Fore wing grey slightly tinged with 

 reddish brown and irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by a black point 

 on costa ; antemedial line very indistinct, double, with black spot 

 on the outer line at costa, oblique, minutely waved ; orbicular a 

 minute round whitish anuulus ; reniform defined by two white 

 points on inner side and three on outer, some fuscous in lower 

 part ; traces of a medial line with small black spot at costa ; post- 

 medial line very indistinct, double, with small black spot at costa, 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, oblique below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line represented by a series of yellowish-white 

 strise defined on inner side by small rufous dentate marks, exr 

 curved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of blackish 



