CONISTEA. 465 



■distinct ; postmedial line rlaric defined by grey on outer side, 

 ■crenulate, slightly excurved ; subtermiual line very indistinct, pale 

 slightly defined by fuscous on inner side and with the area beyond 

 it somewhat darker ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing fuscous, 

 slightlj- paler at base ; cilia ochreous or reddish ; the underside pale 

 reddish with darker irroration, a discoidal spot and postmedial line. 

 Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs. Exp. 35-40 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type 

 in Coll. J. B. Smith. 



2677. Conistra morrisoni. (Plate CYI. fig. 25.) 



Scopelosoma morrisoni, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. jSTat. Sci. ii. p. 70 (1874) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 226. 



Head and thorax greyish tinged with rufous and irrorated with 

 brown ; antennte whitish at base ; abdomen grej'ish more or less 

 tinged with rufous, dorsal fascous segmental bands, the lateral 

 fringes and anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface irrorated with 

 fuscous. Pore wing pale grey-brown tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line indistinct, greyish, curved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line defined by whitish 

 ■on inner side, almost straight and erect : claviform and orbicular 

 absent ; reniform a narrow whitish lunule with fine dark line in 

 centre and black spot at lower extremity ; medial line indistinct, 

 oblique from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line defined by 

 whitish on outer side, oblique below vein 4 ; subtermiual line in- 

 distinct, pale, sliglitly defined hy brown on inner side, minutely 

 dentate, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle; a slight waved terminal line; cilia with a fine pale line 

 at base. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia whitish tinged with 

 rufous and with slight brown line through them ; the underside 

 whitish tinged with purplish pink and irrorated with fuscous, a 

 discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line, 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing chestnut-red; hind 

 wing with the cilia red. 



Hah. Canada {JSforman), 1 c? ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, New Tork, 

 3 c? , 1 $ type. Exp. 44 millim. 



Larva. Dull blackish, dorsal and subdorsal lines whitish, rather 

 distinct ; substigmatal line white ; cervical shield cut by a yellowish 

 subdorsal line. — H. Gr. D. 



2678. Conistra devia. (Plate CVI. fig. 26.) 



Sco^jelosoma device, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliil. 1874, p. 209; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 226„ 



2 . Head and thorax grej'-white mixed with brown and slightly 

 tinged with rufous ; abdomen grey-white irrorated with brown, the 

 lateral fringes and anal tuft ochreous or rufous. Pore wing grey- 

 white suffused and irrorated with purplish brown, the medial and 

 terminal areas rather broAvner ; subbasal line grey, curved, from costa 



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