422 KOCTUIDJE. 



annukis and its centre defined by dark brown, inverted cone- 

 shaped; a greenish silvery V-shaped stigma below the cell, its 

 outer edge giving off a lobe from middle ; renif orm with 

 whitish annultis defined by black-brown and its centre defined 

 by black-brown, oblique bar-shaped; a rather dif£v;sed sinuous 

 dark brown medial line, oblique to below lower angle of cell, then 

 inwardly oblique ; postmedial line double, dark brown, filled in 

 with whitish towards inner margin, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely dentate, obliquely curved to vein 2, 

 then erect, some white points beyond it on costa ; siibterminal 

 line dark brown slightly defined on outer side by white, obliquely 

 curved from below costa to vein 5, excurved below veins 4 and 3 

 and below submedian fold ; a crenvilate dark brown line before 

 termen and a waved dark brown terminal line ; cilia chequered dark 

 brown and grey. Hind wing ochreous suffused with red-brown, a 

 paler medial shade, the terminal area darker; cilia chequered 

 whitish and dark brown ; the underside ochreous tinged with 

 reddish brown especially on terminal area, an indistinct discoidal 

 spot and oblique postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. viridisigma. Fore wing with the lobe on outer edge of 

 the stigma rounded, the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 

 and bent inwards at discal fold. 



Hal. Canada, Hudson's Bay, Albany E., St. Martin's Falls 

 (Barnston), 1 $ type, Quebec, 1 $ type viridisigma, Br. Columbia, 

 Sicamous Junct. (Miss Hicardo), 1 6 , Vancouver I., 1 5 ; U.S.A., 

 New York, Buffalo, 1 6 , Adirondack Mts., Colorado, Denver. 

 I^a^j). 44-48 mil lim. 



*8240. Syngrapha celsa. 



Flusia celsa, H. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 101 aSSl) ; Ottolengui, J.N.Y. Eiit, 

 Soc. X. p, 72, pi. viii. f. 4 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 25.5. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; abdomen grey 

 suffused with brown. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with dark 

 brown, the medial area below the cell suff'used with chocolate- 

 brown ; subbasal line double, brown, sinuous, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line double, blackish filled in with 

 white, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then oblique 

 and sinuous ; orbicular defined by blackish and grey at sides, rather 

 V-shaped ; the stigma below the cell greenish silvery, erect V-shaped 

 with a spot beyond its lower extremity or conjoined to it ; renif onn 

 with grey annulus defined at sides by blackish and with its centre 

 defined by blackish, narrow, its outer edge indented at middle ; 

 postmedial line double, blackish filled in with white, excurved 

 below costa, at middle, and below submedian fold, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line brown defined on outer side by 

 •whitish, angled outwards below veins 7, 6, 4, 3 and excurved 

 below submedian fold ; a terminal series of whitish lunules defined 



