SrNGEAPHA. 425 



suffused in parts with brown and irrorated with black, the terminal 

 area with some silvery-white ; subbasal line black defined at sides 

 by white, waved, from eosta to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, 

 blackish filled in with wdth silvery-white, angled outwards below 

 costa, incurved in cell, then oblique and waved ; orbicular with 

 slig'ht white annulus and its centre defined by black, oblique, ellip- 

 tical ; a silvery- white irregular U-shaped stigma below the cell with 

 a small round white spot beyond its lower extremity, some black- 

 brown suffusion round it ; reniform with incomplete white annulus, 

 its centre defined by black, constricted at middle wdiere there is a 

 black spot beyond it ; postmedial line blackish defined on outer side 

 by white and on inner side also on costal half, bent outwards below 

 costa, then oblique and waved, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line black defined on inner side by brown suf- 

 fusion and on outer by white suffusion, excurved below vein 7, 

 angled outwards below veins 4 and 3, then waved ; a terminal series 

 of black lunules defined on inner side by white lunules with rather 

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

 Hind wing with the basal area reddish brown followed by a narrow 

 diffused whitish band, the terminal area dark brown ; cilia chequered 

 brown and white ; the underside white tinged and irrorated witli 

 brown, a dark cliscoidal lunule and oblique postmedial line, the ter- 

 minal area suffused with brown. 



Hah. Canada, Nova Scotia ; U.S.A., New Hampshire, Mt. 

 Washington, 1 5 ,New York, Adirondack Mts., Alpine {Grote), 1 <S , 

 2 2 ■ Exp- 38 millim. 



8244 . Syngrapha octoscripta. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 17.) 



Plusia octoscripta, Grote, Bull. BiifF. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 72 (1874) ; Otto- 



lengiii, J. N.y. Ent. Soc. x. pi. viii. f. 14; Smitb, Oat. Nocfc. N. Am. 



p. 254. 

 Plusia 8-sic/nata, Grote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 72 (1874). 

 Plusia epsilon, Ottolengui, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. ii. p. 494 (1900); 



id. J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pi. yi. f. 8 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 201. 

 Autographa zeta, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 70, ]A. vi. f. 1 (1902) ; 



Pyar, Cat. Lep. N. Aui. p. 202. 

 Autogra2oha variana, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 70, pi. vi. f. 10 



(1902) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 201. 

 Autographa pallida, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 71, pi. vi. f. 7 



(1902) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am, p. 202. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with white ; tegulaj with black 

 line at middle defined behind by white and white tips, the patagia 

 with black bar near tips which are white ; tibiae at extremities and 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown, 

 the crests black-brown tipped with white. Fore wing grey-white 

 suffused in parts with brown and irrorated with black ; subbasal 

 line blackish defined at sides by silvery-white, oblique, waved, from, 

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

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

 oblique, waved; an irregular silverj^-Avhite U-shaped stigma defined 



