426 N0CTUID^15. 



by black below the cell, its outer edge connected at middle with a 

 small annulus ; reniform with incomplete silvery-white annulus 

 and its centre defined by black, angled outwards at upper ex- 

 tremity and inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line double, 

 dark brown filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique, waved, some white suffusion beyond it on costal half and 

 some white points on costa ; subtei'minal line black with brown 

 suffusion before it and slight whitish suffusion beyond it, excurved 

 below vein 7 and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3, then waved ; 

 a series of white lunules just before termen defined on each side by 

 brown ; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with pale red-brown especially on basal area, the terminal 

 area dark reddish brown ; an indistinct brown postmedial line ; cilia 

 chequered dark brown and white ; the underside yellowish white 

 irrora ted with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with red-brown, 

 a dark discoidal striga and rather diffused curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. epsilon. Fore wing with the stigma confluent with the 

 small annulus and forming the letter CO. 



Ab. 2. zeia. Fore wing with the stigma confluent with the 

 annulus which is filled in v/ith white. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with the small round spot beyond the stigma 

 with which it is disconnected above and connected below. 



Ab. 4. pallida. Similar to ab. 3, but fore wing pale brown with 

 l^aler shading. — Newfoundland. 



Ab. 5. variana. Fore wing much more variegated pale pearl-grey 

 and dark brown, the stigma as in the typical form but the annulus 

 filled in with white. 



Hah. Alaska ; Newfoundland ; Canada, Hudson's Bay, 

 Albany R., St. Martin's Falls {Barnston), 1 c? , 1 $ , Anticosti I., 

 Nova Scotia {Hedman), 3 6 , New Brunswick, St. John, 1 2 , Br. 

 Columbia, Pass D. Hope (3Irs. NiclioU), 1 ? , Duncans (HanJiam), 

 12, Laggan (Fletcher), 1$, Metlakatla (Keen), 2$; U.S.A., 

 1 J , Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin, 

 Washington Forest Reserve, Early Winter Creek (llrs. Nicholl), 

 2$, Ea^p. 38-40 millim, 



*8245. Syngrapha arctica. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 18.) 



Autograjiha arctica, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 66, pi. vi. f. 11 



(1902). 

 Autographa ottolengui, Dyar, Oafc. Lep. N. Am. p. 201 (1902). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; abdomen grey 

 suffused with brown. Fore wing dull brown mixed with grey, a 

 whitish postmedial shade from costa to vein 4 and a whitish jjatch 

 at tornus ; subbasal line double, blackish, sinuous, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line double, blackish, angled outwards 

 below costa, incurved in cell, then waved ; orbicular with blackish 

 outline defined by whitish, oblique elliptical ; the stigma below the 

 cell golden, erect irregular V-shaped with a spot conjoined to its 

 lower extremity ; reniform defined by black, narrow ; postmedial 



