SYXGEAPHA. 417 



crests black-brown tipped with grey. Fore wing blue-grey striated 

 with black-brown, the medial area below the cell deep rufous except 

 towards inner margin ; subbasal line black-brown defined on outer 

 side by whitish, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 black-brown defined on inner side by whitish, excurved below costa, 

 incmwed in cell, then obliquely ciirved and slightly incurved at vein 

 1 ; orbicular with slight whitish annulus and its centre defined by 

 red-brown, oblique ellijotical; an oblique silvery- white U -slipped 

 stigma below the cell, filled in with grey and its inner arm imnning 

 inwards ahnost to the antemedial line ; reniform with slight 

 whitish annulus defined on inner side by black-brown and its centre 

 defined by brown, somcAvhat constricted at middle where there is a 

 black-brown spot bej^ond it ; postmedial line double, brown filled in 

 with whitish, bent outwards below costa and incurved below discal 

 fold, some white points beyond it on costa ; the terminal area 

 slightly tinged with red-brown ; a faint waved grey subterminal 

 line; a series of minute whitish lunules just before termen. Hind 

 wing yellow, the basal and inner areas suffused with red-brown, 

 the terminal area deep cupreous red-brown ; cilia white with a brown 

 line near base ; the underside yellow irrorated with red-brown, the 

 terminal area suffused with red-brown, a brown discoidal lunule. 



Ab. 1. horea. Smaller ; fore wing with white point beyond the 

 stigma ; hind wing yellower. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the stigma Y-shaped with a narrow tail. 



Sab. Geeestland ; Labeador ; Canada, Hudson's Bay, Albany 

 E., St. Mai-tin's Falls {Barnston), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Scandinavia, 

 Mountains, Lapland, Leech Coll., Kusamo, Zeller Coll. ; Finland ; 

 E. Turkestan, Thian Shan Mts. ; E. Siberia, Lahuria, Amurland. 

 Eivp. 38-42 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Entt. & Moths Em-, p. 272; Hffm. Raiip. p. 135. 



Green with fine whitish longitudinal lines. Food-plant, JBetnla. 



8233. Syngrapha sacceni. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 7.) 



Tlusia sacJcenii, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 136 (1872); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. 

 Ent. Soc. X. pi. viii. f. 17 ; Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 257. 



2 . Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with grey ; tegulse 

 with black band before the tips which are white ; patagia white at 

 tips ; tarsi ringed Avith white ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests 

 black towards the tips which are white. Fore wing purplish grey 

 suffused with red-brown and slightly ii-rorated with black ; the 

 medial area below the cell deep chocolate-brown ; subbasal line 

 slight, black, angled outwards below costa and ending at vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line black defined on inner side by silvery-white, angled 

 outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then oblique and sinuous ; 

 orbicular absent ; an oblique silvery-white U-shaped stigma filled in 

 with grey below the cell, its inner arm extending along median 

 nervure ahnost to the antemedial line, a short streak beyond its 

 lower extremity ; reniform with slight silvery annulus defined by 



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