416 NOCTUIDJE. 



2611. Sympistis lapponica. 



Noctva lajpponica, Thubg. Diss. Ent. ii. p. 42. f. 10 (1791) ; Auriv. Bih. K. 



Vet.-Akad. Handl. xv. p. 19. pi. 2. f. 2 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 219 ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 294. 

 Anarta amiasa, Lef. Ami. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1836, p. 397, pi. 10. f. 6, S 



(nee 2); Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. pi. 49. LI a; Herr.-Scbiiff. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. ff. 211-12. 

 Anarta tenebricosa, Moscbl. Stett. ent. Zeifc. 1877, p. 498. 



Head and thorax black mixed with white ; tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen black-brown mixed with some white hairs. Fore 

 wing white irrorated with black ; subbasal line double, the outer 

 line interrupted and diffused ; antemedial line strong, black, waved, 

 angled outwards in cell ; orbicular and reniform very small, white, the 

 former round with black before it in cell, the latter with black centre ; 

 outer half of medial area black ; postmedial line black defined by 

 white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 dentate, strongly incurved below vein 4 ; the postmedial area 

 suffused with black with some white points on costa ; subterminal 

 line only defined by the contrast between the black and whitish 

 areas, angled outwards at vein 7 and middle, then incurved ; cilia 

 chequered white and black-brown with series of black striae at base. 

 Hind wing black-brown with whitish patch on costal area beyond 

 middle ; cilia white, brownish at base. Underside of both wings 

 black-brown with whitish band beyond the sinuous postmedial 

 line, 



Ab. 1. tenebricosa. Darker ; fore wing not irrorated with grey. 



Hab. Greenland (HoUboel), 1 $ ; Canada, Labrador (MdscJder), 

 1 5 , Br. Columbia, Kicking Horse Pass (Mrs. Nicholl), 1 5 ; 

 ScANDiN-AViA, Fiumark, Alton Fjord, Zeller Coll ; Lapland, Leech 

 €oll. ; JSTovATA Zembla. Exp. 24-26 milHm. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 265 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 137. 



Greyish or cinnamon-brown with a dorsal series of black spots ; 

 ■a pale lateral line and series of oblique lateral streaks. Food-plants : 

 Vaccinium and Birch. 



2612. Sympistis zetterstedti. 



Anarta araissa, Lef. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1836, pi. 10. f. 7, $ (nee (5'); 



Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. pi. 49. f. 7 b. 

 Anarta zetterstecltii, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1857, p. 294; Herr.-Scbaff. 



Neue Schmett. f. 166; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 219; Smith, Cat. jVoct. 



N. Am. p. 295. 

 Sympistis sibirica, Alph. Iris, viii. p. 195 (1895) ; id. Eom. Mem. ix. 



p. 220, pi. 10. f. 11. 

 Anarta kolthqffi, Auriv. Bib. K. Vet.-Akad. Handl. sv. p. 20, pi. 2. f. 1, & 



pi. 3. f. 2 (1890). 

 Anarta labradoris, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 219 (1901). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with a few grey 

 hairs ; tarsi with slight white rings. Fore wing black-brown over- 

 laid with some white hairs ; subbasal line ill-defined, greyish, oblique, 

 from costa to inner margin ; antemedial line indistinct, defined by 

 greyish on inner side, oblique, waved ; orbicular and reniform very 



