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7821. Gonospileia cuspidea. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 3.) 



Lrasteria ciispidea, Hiibn. Zutr. ex. Schmett. i. p. 16 ff 69-70 CISIS") • 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 319. v /' 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark chocolate-brown suffused with 

 grey. Fore wing dark chocolate-brown siiffused with grey ; a round 

 black spot just above inner margin before the antemedial deep 

 chocolate-brown band, its inner edge strongly incurved above vein 1 

 over the black spot, its outer edge obliquely excurved ; an indistinct 

 sinuous medial line with an oblique elliptical brown annulus beyond 

 it in and below angle of cell cutting into the lower edge of the 

 indistinct elliptical greyish reniform which has a triangular deep, 

 chocolate-brown patch beyond it ; postmedial line chocolate-brown 

 Avith a pale grey patch before it below the costa and slightly 

 defined on outer side by pale grey, bent outwards below costa, 

 incurved below vein 6 and slightly excurved at submedian fold ; a 

 chocolate-brown patch beyond it from costa to vein 6 with some 

 pale points at costa, its outer edge defined by black and acutely 

 angled outwards above vein 6 ; a very faint waved grey subterminal 

 line from vein 6 to inner margin with a series of small blackish 

 spots bej^ond it followed by a pale grey shade ; the terminal area 

 suffused with red-brown ; a fine waved brown terminal line ; cilia 

 red-brown mixed with some grey. Hind wing with the basal half 

 dark brown, the terminal half cupreous reddish brown; the dark 

 area defined by a sinuous dark line from middle of costa to tornus ; 

 a narrow dark brown subterminal band with somewhat dentate outer 

 edge ; the termen suffused with brown from apex to vein 3 ; a 

 waved dark brown terminal line ; cilia red-brown mixed with some 

 grey. Underside of both wings with the basal half dark brown, 

 the terminal half pale red-brown, irrorated with brown ; fore wing 

 with the dark area extending to the subterminal line except towards 

 costa. 



Hind tibiae sometimes with one or two spines above the medial 

 spurs. 



Hah. Arctic America, Slave R. {Taylor)., 1 S ; Canada, 

 Ottawa {Mrs. NichoU), 1 d" > Br. Columbia, Mabel Lake (Brooks), 

 1 d , Pentecton (Mrs. McJioll), 1 c5' , 1 $ , Greenwood (Mrs. MchoU), 

 1 $ , Lr. Kootenay, Nelson (Mrs. McJioll), 4 2 , Okanagan R., 

 Up. Keremeos (Mrs. NichoU), 2 d, 1 ? ; Vancouver I., Cor- 

 viehan Bay (Livingston),! J, Ladysmith (Livingston), 1 $ ; 

 U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, Middle, and Central States, New York 

 (Packard), 2 c? , 4 $ , Kansas (Snoio), 2 $, Texas, Dallas (Boll), 

 1 S, California (Walsingham) , 2 cj" , 2 ? , Knights Vallej'', 1 $, 

 Hanlah, 1 $ . Kxp. 30-42 miUim. 



Egg. Lembert, Can. Bnt. xxvii. p. 107. 



Pea-green with deep vertical lines. 



Larva. 1st stage. A slender looper ; thoracic somites pale green, 

 then dark green to the somites which carry the prolegs, of which 

 there are two pairs, then pale green. Food-plant : clover. 



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