424 NOCTUID.E. 



8242. Syngrapha alias. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 15.) 



Autograplia alias, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. C9, pi. \iii. ff. 7, 13 



(1902); Dyar, Cat. L-p. N. Am. p. 2()1. 

 Tlusia u-wureum, Smith, Oat. Nocb. N. Am. p. 254 (i^art.). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed Avith white ; tegulae with 

 slight white medial line and white tips, the patagia with white bar 

 at middle and white tips, the metathoracic crest tipped with white ; 

 tibiae at extremities and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey 

 suffused with reddish brown, the crests dark bro"wn tipped with 

 white. Fore wing purplish grey suffused in parts with brown and 

 in'orated with black, the basal area, inner antemedial area, and 

 terminal area more silvery- white, the medial area below the cell 

 browner ; subbasalline black defined on outer side by silvery-white, 

 waved, 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 waved ; orbicular defined by silvery- white except 

 above and rather U-shaped; a silverj^-white stigma below the cell, 

 forked above and with two rather claw-like projections below; reni- 

 f orm with incomplete white annulus and its centre defined by black, 

 constricted at middle where there is a black spot on its outer side ; 

 postmedial line double, blackish filled it with silvery-white, bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, waved, excurved at middle, 

 a slight golden cupreous mark before it at submedian fold, some 

 Avhite beyond it, on costal half and some white points on costa ; 

 subterminal line silvery-white defined on inner side by black with 

 brown suffusion before it, excurved below vein 7, angled outwards 

 below veins 4 and 3, then slightly waved ; a terminal series of 

 brown lunules defined on inner side by silvery lunules with rather 

 dentate brown marks before them ; cilia chequered white and brown. 

 Hind wing with the basal area red-brown followed b}'- a whitish 

 postmedial sliade ; the terminal area dark brown ; cilia chequered 

 brown and white ; the underside whitish suffused wdth pale red-brown, 

 the terminal area dark broAvn, a blackish discoidal lunule and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, New Brunswick, St. John {Melitosli), 1 S ; 

 U.S.A., Northern States, New Hampshire, 1 $ , New York, Trenton 

 Falls {BotMeday), 1 6 , Yalley (Grote), 1 $ . IJa:^). 40 millimr 



8243. Syngrapha u-aureum. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 16.) 



Plusia u-aureu'M, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 354 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 254. 

 Plusia vaccina, H. Edw. Ent. Am. ii. p. 170 (1886); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. 



Ent. Soc. X. p. 71, pi. Tiii. f. 3 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 254. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with pm-plish grey ; tegulaj 

 with slight white line at middle and white tips ; patagia with white 

 bars near base and at middle, and white tips ; tibise at extremities, 

 the spurs and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen reddish brown, the 

 crests dark brown tipped with white. Fore wing purple-grey 



