cojsrisTBA. 461 



flesh-red, strongly on costal area and with slight dark irroration, a 

 dark discoidal luuule and sinuous postmedial line. 



$. Frons whitish ; thorax purplish grey mixed with brown ; abdo- 

 men dorsally whitish irrorated with brown. Hind wing ^-ith the 

 underside more evenly tinged with red and irrorated with bi'own. 



Hah. CajN'ada; U.S.A., 2 c? , 1 2 type. South to Virginia and 

 West to Illinois, Iowa. Exp. 44:--50 millim. 



Larva. Dyai-, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 324 (1899). 



Head bilobed, broader than high, shining light brown, with 

 dark brown curved vertical band and distinct reticulations. Body 

 sordid brown, mottled, the skin thin, markings nearly obsolete ; 

 dorsal line narrow ; stigmatal line broad, whitish ; cervical shield 

 polished, browu, with light central line and a broad pale spot on each 

 edge ; anal plate brown, light on the sides ; spiracles black. Food- 

 plant, Viburnum. — H, G. D. 



2671. Conistra viatica. (Plate CVI. fig. 19.) 



Orthosia viatica, Grote. 6th Eep. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 29 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 221. 



Head and thorax bright rufous, a few of the scales tipped with 

 white, the vertex of thorax browner; sides of frons blackish; 

 antennse white towards base ; pectus grey-black at sides ; abdomen 

 bright rufous, greyish at base and with slight sublateral dark spots 

 on terminal segments, of female whitish above irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing bright purple-brown slightly ii-rorated with white, the 

 costal edge rufous ; subbasal line indistinct, dark, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, oblique, slightly 

 and irregularly waved, or almost obsolete ; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular and reniform large with fine white annuli, the former 

 oblique elliptical, the latter rather constricted at middle ; post- 

 medial line blackish with slight fuscous suffusion on its outer edge, 

 strongly and evenly crenulate, very slightly curved ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, grey defined on inner side by a slight rufous line, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7, then minutely \\aved ; a fine 

 waved brown terminal line ; cilia pale purplish at base, darlc brown 

 at tips. Hind wing pale evenly suffused with brown and slightly 

 tinged with pinkish or oehreous ; a fine waved brown terminal line ; 

 cilia pale pinkish or oehreous ; the underside white tinged with 

 pink, strongly on costal area, a small discoidal spot and rather 

 diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A. 1 d" , 1 2 type, Massachusetts, New York, Alabama, 

 Texas, Middle and Southern States. Exp. 58 millim. 



Larva. Head bilobed, broader than high, shining brown, with dark 

 brown curved vertical band and distinct reticulations. Body sordid 

 greenish, mottled in brown and blackish with broad diff"use tessel- 

 lated shadings : dorsal line whitish, narrow ; substigmatal line lost 

 in the subventral colour but its upper edge strongly marked by a 

 waved blackish shade, covering the spiracles and arched upward in 

 the interspaces ; cervical shield dark brown, with central line and 

 a broad pale spot on each edge ; spiracles black. Food-plants : 

 Oak, &c.— H. G. D. 



