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NOCTUID.f). 



iiTorated with brown ; antemedial line brown faintly defined on 

 inner side by whitish, oblique to submedian fold, then erect and 

 slightly sinuous ; a small brown spot in middle of cell ; renif orra 

 faintly defined by brown, slightly angled inwards on median 

 nervure ; postmedial line brown faintly defined on outer side by 

 whitish, slightly excurved at vein 7, then slightly waved, at vein 2 

 retracted to lower angle of cell and at submedian fold again 

 excurved, some brown suffusion on its outer side at diseal fold ; a 

 faint pale subterminal line defined on outer side by blackish points. 

 Hind M'ing whitish tinged with brown ; a diffused slightly sinuous 

 brown postmedial line ; a narrow diffused brown subterminal band ; 

 a brown terminal line ; the underside tinged with red-brown, a faint 



brown discoidal spot, the postmedial line curved and ending at 

 vein 2, a brownish subterminal shade from costa to vein 3. 



5 . Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing more strongly suffused 

 with brown, the last with the ante- and postmedial lines very 

 indistinct ; hind wing Avith the basal and inner areas strongly 

 suffused with brown. 



Hah. Canada, Eenfrew Co. (Grofe), 1$, Br. Colmnbia, New 

 Westminster {Durrani), 1 §; U.S.A., New York, 3 cJ , 2 $, 

 Georgia, 1 Si Florida {Double day), 3 <S types purgata and secors, 

 Centr. States. Exp. 36-46 millim. 



7887. Cffiimrgia adusta. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 7.) 



Poaphila adusta, Wlk. xxxiii. 988 (18fi5). 

 V Drasteria convalescens, Herr.-Schaff. Oorresp.-blatt. 

 Eegensb. xxiii. p. 155 (1869). 



zool.-min. Ver. 



2 . Head and thorax pale inifous ; abdomen yellowish white 

 slightly irrorated with rufous, the ventral surface suffused with 

 rufous. Fore wing bright rufous iiTorated with grey ; antemedial 

 line rufous, curved ; medial line rufous, oblique to middle of cell, 

 then erect and waved ; renif orm slightly defined by rufous ; post- 



