ABEOSTOLA. 585 



with some brown at base ; the underside oehreous white, the 

 costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area brown, a dark 

 discoidal Imiule. 



Hal. CajS"ada ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York (^Doulleday), 

 1 6 type, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Exp. 36 millim. 



8435. Abrostola urentis. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 27.) 



Ahrostola urentis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 322 (J852); Sinilh, Cat.Noct. N. Am; 

 p. 246. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; black bars above 

 frons and between antennae ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey mixed with brown, the crests blackish. Fore wing 

 brown mixed with grey ; subbasal line blackish, from costa to 

 submedian fold; antemedial line black defined on inner side by 

 red- brown, slightly and evenly excurved ; orbicidar, reniform, and a 

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

 scales on their edges, the orbicular and spot below it oblique and 

 open above and below ; postmedial line double, indistinct to vein 3, 

 then the inner line black and the outer red-brown, bent outwards 

 below costa, then slightly sinuous to vein 4, then slightly incurved, 

 some whitish points with dark streaks between them beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line grey defined on each side by brown, with 

 slight double dentate black mark before it below costa and some 

 black beyond it at apex and above tornus, minutely dentate ; a 

 black terminal line and dark line near base of cilia. Hmd wing 

 with the basal half whitish suffused with brown, the terminal half 

 dark brown ; cilia white with some brown at base ; the \mderside 

 I white irrorated with brown on costal half, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown except towai'ds tornus, a slight brown dis- 

 coidal lunule and traces of difilused waved postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines. 



Hab. Canada, Renfrew Co. {Grote), 1 d" , Nova Scotia 

 {Beclman), 1 5, Manitoba, Winnipeg (Wcdlis), 2 $, Van- 

 couver I. (Livinffston), 1 d~ , 1 $ ; U.S.A., south to Distr. of 

 Columbia, Middle and Central States, 4 d' , Massachusetts, Beverly, 

 1 5 , New York, Albany (Hill), 1 d , Trenton Falls {Botcbleday), 

 1 c? , 1 $ type. Exp. 30-34 millim. 



8436. Abrostola tripartita. 



Noctua tripartita, Hiifn. Berl. Mag, iii. p. 414 (1767) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 235. 

 Noctua asclepiadea, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 169. ff. 4, 5 (nee Schiff ). 

 Noctua triplasia, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noet. f. 269 (nee Linn.). 

 Noctua urticm, Hiibn. Eur. Sehmett., JSfoct. f. 625 (1818) ; Prr. Neuo Beitr. 



pi. 287. 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with red-brown and white ; 

 black bars above frons and between antennae ; tegulae white edged 

 with black-brown and with curved black-brown line at middle ; 



