462 NOCTUIDiE. 



2672. Conistra signata. (Plate CYI. fig. 20.) 



Orthosia slgnaia, Fi-ench, Can. Ent. xi. p. 76 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 221. 



S . Head and thorax purplish grey more or less strongly tinged 

 with rufous, frons with strong lateral black bars ; antennae Avhite 

 at base ; tegula? with grey tips with fine brown line before them ; 

 prothorax Avith pair of black poiiits ; abdomen pale rufous irrorated 

 with black and with sublateral series of small black spots on last 

 four segments. Pore wing purplish grey more or less strongly tinged 

 with rufous and slightly irrorated with black ; subbasal line 

 represented by slight black striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line 

 slight, black defined by greyish on inner side, interrupted, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa, then minutely waved ; orbicular and 

 reniform with slight pale annuli defined by rufous, the former 

 oblique elliptical, the latter constricted below and with black spot 

 in lower extremity ; a medial shade oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then incurved ; postmedial line slight, black defined by 

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

 dentate and produced to black points on the veins, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line pale defined by brown 

 suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at veins 7, 6 and excurved 

 at middle ; a series of slight black points just before termen ; cilia 

 with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing pale tinged with pink and 

 irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown, an indistinct diiJused 

 dark subterminal band, a fine waved dark terminal line ; cilia pale 

 pinkish ; the underside grey suffused with rufous especially on 

 costal area and irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Middle and Central States, 2 c , New York, Illinois, 

 Distr. of Columbia. Exp. 42-44 millim. 



2673. Conistra tristigmata. (Plate CVI. fig. 21.) 



Scopelosoma trisligmata, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 156 (1877); Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 225. 



Head and thorax bright rufous ; antennae with the shaft white at 

 base ; fore tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, 

 the lateral fringes and anal tuft rufous. Pore wing rufous more or 

 less tinged with greyish and irrorated with black ; subbasal line 

 indistinct, curved, from costa to submedian fold, antemedial line 

 double, the inner line very indistinct, slightly angled outwards 

 below costa, inwardly oblique and straight to vein 1, then excurved; 

 claviform minute, narrow, defined by brown ; orbicular small, 

 round, defined by brown, sometimes touching the antemedial line ; 

 reniform pale rufous or greyish defined by brown, with brown line 

 on discocellullars, its lower part filled in with black with white 

 point on its outer edge ; medial line slightly waved, oblique below 

 the cell ; postmedial line double at costa, then slightly sinuous and 

 produced to short streaks on the veins, slightly angled outwards at 



