46-i NOCTTJlDiE. 



2675. Conistra sidus. (Plate CVl. fig. 23.) 



Sco]pelosoma sidus, Guen. Noct. i. p. 386 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 226. 

 Dichaqramma vimdenta, Grote, Proc. Eiit. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 440, pi. 9. f. 6 



(18o4). 



Head and thorax grey more or less tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with brown ; antennas with the shaft white at base ; 

 abdomen greyish tinged with rufous and with diffused fuscous 

 segmental bands, the lateral fringes and anal tuft rufous. Fore 

 Aviug greyish more or less suffused with rufous and thickly irrorated 

 with fuscous, the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line 

 represented by a slight striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 dark, almost straight and erect ; claviform and orbicular absent ; 

 reuiform represented by a round white or fulvous spot, usually with 

 Avhite points above and below it, the latter placed on a fuscous 

 mark at lower angle of cell ; an indistinct dark medial line, oblique 

 from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; postmedial line 

 dark, minutely dentate, somewhat oblique from costa to vein 4 

 where it is angled outwards, then slightly incurved ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, pale, slightly defined by brown on inner side, 

 minutely dentate and slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a fine waved terminal line ; cilia with a slight 

 hrown line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia 

 ochreous white tinged with rufous ; the underside ochreous grey 

 irrorated with fuscous, the costal area tinged with rufous, a discoidal 

 lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. vintdenta. Head, thorax, and fore wing bright chestnut- 

 red. 



Hah. Canada, Ontario, London {Reed), 1 5 ; U.S.A., E. States, 

 1 c?, T) 5 , New York, Texas. Exp. 40 millim. 



Larva. Head dark brown in front, vertex and sides pale luteous. 

 Body with joint 12 enlarged, low, rounded ; dark red-brown, dorsal 

 and subdorsal lines pale, indistinct ; substigmatal line narrow, diffuse, 

 pale 3'ellow ; tubercles pale ; cervical shield dark brown cut by 

 bright subdorsal lines ; feet brown. — H. G. D. 



*2676. Conistra Colorado. (Plate CVI. fig. 24.) 



Scopelosoma Colorado, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 21 (1903). 



c5" . Head and thorax reddish clay-colour to rusty reddish ; abdo- 

 men fuscous with the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing reddish clay- 

 colour to rusty reddish with slight dark irroration, the markings 

 indistinct ; subbasal line defined by pale colour on outer side from 

 costa to submedian fold, or obsolete ; antemedial line slightly defined 

 by greyish on inner side, slightly oblique, nearly straight ; claviform 

 and orbicular absent; reniform rather narrow, tinged with reddish 

 on outer side and with slight dark point in lower part, with or 

 without white points at extremities ; medial shade oblique and 

 hardly traceable from costa to lower angle of cell, then rather more 



