480 NOCTUID^, 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 63 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 354, pi. 229. f. 2. 



Ochreous brown with darker freckles ; dorsal line whitish, 

 distinct ; subdorsal line pale or whitish ; spiraciilar line ochreous 

 white or white, dark-edged above. Pood-plants : Beech, Oak, and 

 Hawthorn. 4-6. 



2697. Amathes verberata. (Plate CYII. fig. 1.) 



Orthosia verberata, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxri. p. 153 (1904). 



Head and thorax greyish ochreous suffused with rufous ; palpi 

 rufous ; sides of frons black ; antennae blackish, whitish at base ; 

 tarsi suffused with fuscous ; abdomen greyish dorsally suffused with 

 fuscons, the lateral fringes and ventral surface pale rufous, the 

 latter irrorated with black. Fore wing ochreous irrorated Avith 

 fuscous and tinged in parts with rufous, the veins with slight dark 

 streaks ; subbasal line dark, curved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line angled outwards below costa and inwards on 

 median nervure and vein 1 , excurved below cell and above inner 

 margin ; claviform large, defined above by red ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by red, the former round, the latter with black 

 spot in its lower part; medial shade rufous and fuscous, oblique 

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

 dark, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and with 

 series of black points beyond it on the veins, incurved at discal 

 fold and strongly below vein 4 ; postmedial area suffused with 

 brown except just beyond postmedial line and on costal area ; sub- 

 terminal line ochreous defined by red on inner side, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, excurved at middle and bent inwards at vein 2, the area 

 beyond it suffused with brown ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia chequered rufous and fuscous with a fine ochreous 

 line at base. Hind wing whitish suffused Avith fuscous except 

 costal area ; the termen and cilia yellow ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with fuscous, the costal area yellowish, a dark discoidal 

 lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and incomplete maculate subterminal 

 band. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary {WoUey-Dod), 2 S ; U.S.A., 

 ■Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 1 $ . Exjj. 40 millim. 



2698. Amathes circellaris. 



Phcdcena circellaris, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 404 (1767) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 206. 

 JSloctua ferruginea, Schiff. Wien. Yerz. p. S6 (1776) ; Esp. Schmett. iii. 



pi. 47. f. 6 (1785); Hiibn. Eur. Sclmiett., Noct, f. 181 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



vii. p. 470, pi. 130. f. 2 ; Frr. Beitr. pi. 123. 

 Bomhyx ftcscago, Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 75. f. 5 (1785). 

 Nochia undata, View, Verz. Schmett. p. 17, pi. 1. f. 2 (1789). 

 Nociua undosa, Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 753 (1792). 

 Nociua macilenta, Hiibn. Enr. Schmett., Noct. ff. 688-9 (1827) ; Steph. 111. 



Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 148. 

 Orthopia nigridens, Fuchs, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1883, p. 263. 



Head and thorax rufous; abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused 



