156 NOCTOIDiE. 



protliorax with blackish bar, the patagia with black lines near edges; 

 pectus and legs whitish tinged with rufous, the tarsi blackish 

 ringed with white ; abdomen pale rufous, the basal crests with some 

 dark brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing bright rufous, 

 the veins with dark streaks, a diffused white streak above median 

 nervure and thence above vein 2 and extremity of vein 3 to termen ; 

 an oblique subbasal black striga from costa ; a fine black streak in 

 submedian fold to just before the antemedial line, which is blackish, 

 slightlj' angled outwards below costa and in cell, oblique to sub- 

 median fold, then inwardly oblique ; reniform with its centre 

 defined by brown and with white annulus, an oblique dark bar 

 above it from costa, some fuscous suffusion before it in cell and 

 fuscous and grey suffusion btiyond it to the postmedial line where 

 it is met by an oblique dark shade from termen below apex ; a small 

 spot defined by dark brown below end of cell connected by a sinus 

 with the postmedial line at vein 2 ; postmedial line black, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique, very acutely angled out- 

 wards above and below vein 5, then dentate, strongly angled 

 outwards and somewhat bidentate at siibmedian fold and angled 

 inwards at vein 1 to near the antemedial line ; subterminal line 

 white, strongly dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a 

 series of blackish points before termen. Hind wing bright scarlet, 

 the hair on inner margin brown, some diffused broAvn in submedian 

 fold to the obliquely curved black medial band extending to inner 

 margin, its edges sinuous and its inner edge incurved at discal and 

 submedian folds ; terminal area black, narrowing to tornus ; the 

 termen narrowly white tinged with red towards apex, then with 

 slight marks in the interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia white, chequered 

 with fuscous between veins 6 and 2, fuscous towards tornus. 

 Underside of fore wing blackish brown, an oblique pale scarlet 

 medial baud from below costa to vein 1, a white postmedial band, 

 oblique to vein 4 and tinged with scarlet towards inner margin, the 

 termen brownish white; hind wing as above, the basal costal area 

 ochreous white, the postmedial area whitish irrorated with brown 

 to discal fold, a black discoidal bar connected above with the medial 

 band, which is narrower and more irregular. 



Ab. 1. lucinda. Fore wing more uniform pale or greenish grey, 

 the inner area suffused with dark red-brown. 



Ab. 2. adriana. Fore wing with the inner area not darker than 

 the ground-colour. 



Ab. 3. celia. Hind wing with the medial band reduced to a 

 line. — Florida. 



Hab. Canada, Ontario, Orillia (Bush), 1 2 ; U.S.A., Eastern 

 States to Florida, Middle and Central States, 1 c? , 4 $ ,lS'ew York, 

 Evans Center (Grote), 2 cj' , 1 $ , Ohio, Columbus, 2 c? , Kansas 

 (Snow), 1 c? , 1 5 . Exjy. 52-64 millim. 



Larva. Guen. Noct. iii. p. 89; Packard, Guide to Study of Ins. p. 317, 

 pi. Tiii. f. 4a; Saund. Can. Ent. vi. p. 147, & xii. p. 4. 



Clear grey to very dark brown, with darker dots and reddish 

 tubercles ; 8th somite with a protuberance coucolorous or reddish ; ' 



