582 NOCTTJIDiE, 



5th stage : Shining chestnut-brown raarbled with black, dorsal 

 and subdorsal lines white on thoracic somites, encroached on by the 

 dark margins on abdomen, where the dorsal line forms black points 

 at segmental incisions, whence diffused forked marks are emitted 

 obliquely forwards to the subdorsal lines, more prominent on terminal 

 somites ; lateral line yellowish white, sharply defining the dark 

 dorsal area from the greenish ventral area ; spiracles black with 

 white centres. Food-plants : Vaccinium and grasses. 



1014. Aplectoides imperita. 



Ogygia imperita, Hiibu. Ziltr. ff. 447, 448 (1827) ; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. 



p. 137 ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. .59. 

 Agrotis comparata,Mbsc\\\. Wien. ent. Mon. vi. p. 131, pi. 1. f. 5 (1862). 

 Agrotin saxigena, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soo. N. H. xvii. p. 162 (1874). 

 Bryophila discitincta, Wlk. ix. 27 (1856). 



Head and thorax fuscous and grey mixed ; palpi blackish ; a 

 whitish band sometimes present behind tegular ; tarsi with white 

 rings ; abdomen pale mixed with fuscous brown. Fore wing bluish 

 grey, irrorated and in part suflased with fuscous brown ; a black 

 streak above base of vein 1 ; the subbasal streak indistinct ; a 

 waved antemedial line defined by grey on inner side ; claviform 

 with its upper edge defined by black ; orbicular and reniform grey 

 with brownish centres and defined by black, and with blackish 

 suffusion in cell before and between them, the former oblique, 

 elliptical, open above ; the postmedial line dentate, defined by grey 

 on outer side, strongly bent outwards below eosta, slightly angled 

 inwards in discal folcl, and below vein 4 strongly incurved ; some 

 pale points on costa before the subterminal line, which is black, 

 angled outwards at vein 7, inwards in discal fold and incurved below 

 vein 3 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing grey wholly 

 suffused with fuscous brown ; the cilia white ; the underside with 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Bah. Canada, Hudson's Bay, St. Martin's Falls (Barnston), 1 $ , 

 type discitincta, Labrador, 4 <S , Zeller & Frey Colls. ; Amuk. Exji. 

 36 millim. 



1015. Aplectoides pressa. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 1.) 



Eurois prcssus, Gi-ote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 90 (1874) ; id. Check-List, 

 pi. 1. f. 7 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 59. 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with pale brown and black ; 

 palpi except at tips and sides of frons black ; tegula3 with some 

 ochreous at middle ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 brownish. Fore wing pale brown irrorated with white and black, 

 and with diffused ochreous streaks below base of costa and in 

 submedian and discal folds ; a double, waved, black subbasal line 

 from costa to submedial fold filled in with white ; a similar oblique 

 antemedial line ; claviform large, with its upper edge defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform large, whitish, partly suffused with 

 ochreous, irrorated with brown, defined by black, and with black 



