4-18 K0CTUIDJ3. 



black-brown and witli its centre defined by black-brown, oblique 

 bar-shaped; postmedial line silvery-white faintly defined on each 

 side by red-brown on costal half and prominently by black-brown on 

 inner half, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved to 

 vein 5, then incurved, and excurved below submedian fold, some 

 rufous before it on inner half and some yellow beyond it at tornus ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, brownish, angled outwards below veins 

 7, 6, 4, 3, then slightly waved; the veins of terminal area with 

 slight dark streaks ; a fine blackish terminal line with series of 

 white striae before it ; cilia dark chocolate-brown, chequered brown 

 and white at tips. Hind wing yellow ; the base and inner margin 

 suffused with red-brown ; a slight brown discoidal lunule ; the 

 terminal area dark brown, nai-rowing to tornus ; cilia chequered 

 white and brown. Underside orange-yellow, the costal and 

 terminal areas suffused with red-brown ; dark discoidal striae. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado {Snow, Bruce), 2 5, Idaho Springs 

 {Osten-Sacken), 1 $ type. Exp. 36-40 millim. 



8234. Syngrapha snovi. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 8.) 



riusia snowii, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 44 (1884) ; Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Eiit. 

 Soc. X. p. 75, pi. viii. f. IG; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 257. 



Head and thorax purple-grey mixed with black-brown ; tegulse 

 with two black lines towards tips ; patagia with two oblique black 

 bars ; the dorsal crest with some red-brown ; pectiTS and legs red- 

 brown and grey, the tarsi dark brown ringed vidth white ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the crests black at tips. Fore wing purple-grey slightly 

 tinged in parts with red-brown and striated with blackish, the 

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

 slight, blackish defined on oiiter side by whitish, siniious, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line black defined on inner side by 

 silvery-white, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then 

 oblique and sinuous ; orbicular with slight grey annulus and its 

 centre defined by black-brown, small, round, a silvery- white 

 U-shaped stigma beloAv the cell, filled in with grey and its arms 

 defined by red-broAvn, its inner arm extending along median nervure 

 almost to the antemedial line, a short streak beyond its lower 

 extremity ; renif orm wdth slight silvery- white annulus defined b}^ 

 black-brown and its centre defined by black-brown, oblique bar- 

 shaped; postmedial line double, pale brown filled in in paris with 

 whitish, bent outwards beiow costa, then minutely wave:l to vein 6, 

 then incurved and excurved below submedian fold, some rufous before 

 it on inner half and some yellow beyond it at tornus ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, grey slightly defined on inner side by brown, minutely 

 waved, angled outwards below veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; a series of slight 

 whitish striae before termen ; cilia chequered whitish and brown at 

 tips. Hind mng yellow ; the base and inner margin suffused with 

 brown ; a slight discoidal lunule ; the terminal area dark brown nar- 

 rowing to tornus ; cilia chequered dark broAvn and white. Underside 



