466 NOCTTJIDJE. 



to submedian fold ; antemedial Ime whitish, inwardly oblique^ 

 almost straight or slightly incurved, arising from middle of costa ; 

 claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform a narrow lunule with 

 white aunulus ; postmedial line whitish, slightly bent outwards- 

 below costa, escurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an oblique whitish 

 line before the subterminal line which is fine, whitish, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine dark terminal line. 

 Hind wing greyish suffused with fuscous brown: a fine dark terminal 

 line ; cilia ochreous white with slight brown line through them ; 

 the underside whitish slightly tinged with purplish and thickly 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and diffused postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary (WoUey-Dod), 4 $ ; U.S.A., 

 N.E. States, 2 $ type, New York. Exp. 34-36 millim. 



Larva. Head broad, round, black in front, vertex brown, labium, 

 and antennae white. Body brown, lighter and mottled in dorsal 

 space ; dorsal and subdorsal lines Avhitish, dark brown edged ; 

 substigmatal band broad, white, straight, sharply edged, tubercles 

 white ; cervical shield cut by a pale yellow subdorsal line ; thoracic 

 feet nearly black. — H. G. D. 



2679. Conistra indirecta. (Plate CVI. fig. 27.) 



XantUa indirecta, Wlk. x. 468 (1857) ; Smith, Cat TSToct. N. Am. p. 225. 

 Scopelosoma grtpfiaoia, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 69 (1874). 



cj" . Head and thorax j-ellow mixed with fiery red ; abdomen 

 yellow dorsally irrorated with red. Fore wing yellow thickly 

 irrorated with red, the veins with slight rufous streaks ; subbasal 

 line red, slightly angled outwards in cell, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line red with some dark scales on it, erect, almost 

 straight ; orbicular and reniform defined by red, the former small, 

 round, the latter slightly constricted at middle and somewhat angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; medial line oblique, slightly sinuous, 

 forming inner edge of reniform ; postmedial line red with some 

 dark scales on it, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, almost 

 straight ; subterminal line indistinct, rufous with some darker 

 suffusion before it on costa, slightly angled outwards at veins 7, 6 

 and excurved at middle ; a crenulate dark terminal line. Hind 

 wing pale yellow more or less strongly tinged with red except on 

 costal area ; a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia yellowish white ; the 

 underside yellowish white, with slight rufous discoidal lunule with 

 spot on costa above it, and sinuous postmedial line showing through 

 to upperside. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., N.E. States to Distr. of Columbia, 3 S , 

 type and type r/rcefiana. Exp. 36-40 millim. 



2680. Conistra moffatiana. (Plate CVI. fig. 28.) 



Scopelosoma onoffaiiana, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. tI. p. 583 



(1882) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 225. ' - '", 



Sco]pelosoma gra-fiana, Grote, III. Essay, p. 65, pi. 3. f. 38 (nee Grote 1874). 



