584 NOCTXJIDJD. 



outwards below costa, obliquely excurved to lower angle of cell, 

 then curved downwards and hooked below origin of vein 2, then 

 oblique and sinuous to inner margin near base ; reniform with 

 white annulus and its centre defined by red-brown, concave towards 

 base, an oblique chocolate-brown shade before it from costa ; post- 

 medial line double, brown filled in with white and defined on outer 

 side by white, the inner line towards costa and the outer line 

 towards inner margin darker and more prominent, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, incurved just below vein 3 and 

 bent inwards to inner margin ; subterminal line black-brown, 

 rather diffused on inner side, evenly cmwed, the area beyond it 

 violaceous white with a red-brown line beyond the subterminal line 

 and a black terminal line ; cilia Avith fine white lines at base and 

 middle. Hind Aving whitish suffused with red-brown, the terminal 

 area darker ; cilia brown at base, white at tips ; the underside 

 whitish tinged with red-brown, traces of a curved postmedial line 

 and a fine dark terminal line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Maine, Massachusetts, New York in Coll. W. 

 Barnes, New Jersey. Exp. 36 millim. 



Larva. Kearfott, Ent. New Pbilad. xt. ij). 301. 



Head small, each somite increasing in height, the anal somite 

 three or fom- times height of head and vertical behind ; pea- green 

 with waved white dorsal stripe and each somite vnth white band. 

 Food-plant, Vacciiiium. Spins a loose cottony cocoon. 5. 



8484. Abrostola ovalis. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 26.) 



Ahrostola ovalis, auen. Noct. ii. p. 322, pi. 11. f. 1] (1852); Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 246. 



S . Head and tegulse brown mixed with grey, a black bar 

 between antennae, the tegulse -with black line near base and some 

 black scales at tips ; patagia pinkish white edged with red-brown 

 above and with red-brown bar at middle ; thorax ochreous white ; 

 pectus in front and legs brown, the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 brown mixed with grey, some ochreous hair at base of sides. Fore 

 wing with the basal area pinkish white irrorated wdth red-brown 

 and with slight red-brown subbasal marks below costa and cell and 

 on vein 1 ; antemedial fine double, the outer line black, the inner 

 red-brown, strongly and evenly excmwed ; orbicular, reniform, and 

 a spot below the former large, defined by black and with raised 

 black scales on their edges, the orbicular oblique and open above 

 and below, the reniform elliptical ; postmedial line double, in- 

 distinct to vein 5, then the inner line black, the outer red-brown, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, slightly waved to vein 5, then 

 obhque, excurved below submedian fold, some grey points with 

 blackish streaks betv^ een them beyond it on costa and a whitish 

 patch on inner area ; subterminal line inchstinct, greyish, minutely 

 dentate ; a black terminal line. Hind mng with the basal half 

 whitish suffused with brown, the terminal half brown ; cilia white 



