30 JfOCTXJIDiE, 



ventral surface oehreous mixed with bvown. Fore wing greyisTi 

 suffused aud irrorated with dark purplish brown, the outer half of 

 medial area rather darker except towards costa ; subbasal line 

 represented by double dark striae from costa and cell filled in with 

 whitish ; antemedial line double filled in with whitish, dentate, 

 more strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner 

 margin ; orbicular small and rather elongate, with whitish annulus 

 defined by black and some blackish before and beyond it ; reniform 

 faintly defined by blackish and with a few whitish scales repre- 

 senting the annulus ; an indistinct waved medial shade, oblique 

 from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line double filled in with 

 whitish, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique and sinuous to 

 vein 4, then erect and minutely waved, incurved at submedian fold, 

 some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, 

 whitish, defined on inner side by black streaks below costa and at 

 middle extending to near postmedial line, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle, then incurved, with white streaks beyond it in the 

 interspaces to the terminal series of small black spots ; cilia reddish 

 brown with a dark line through them. Hind wing cupreous red, 

 the costal area suffused with brown ; a slight brown line on termen 

 from apex to vein 2 ; cilia red-brown with a slight pale line at 

 base except towards tornus ; the underside with the costal half 

 whitish irrorated with brown, the inner half pale cupreous red, a 

 black discoidal spot and diffused postmedial line bent inwards to 

 costa, blackish to vein 4, then faint. 



Ab. 1. inornata. Hind wing with the base, veins and terminal 

 area to vein 2 suffused with brown, leaving the disk and tornal 

 areas only reddish. — Canada. 



Ab. 2. conspersa. Pore wing thickly irrorated with grey and the 

 markings almost obsolete except at costa. 



Hah. Canada {Norman), 1 S , Ottawa (Saunders), 2 c? , 1 $ , Br. 

 Columbia ; U.S.A., East of Rocky Mts. {Packard, Burg), 4 cJ, 3 § , 

 New York, Evans Center (Grote), 1 J , Garrison {Cockerell), 12, 

 Pennsylvania, 1 (5 , Colorado, California, 1 (5 ; Mexico, Cofre de 

 Perote {Trujillo), 1 d , 2 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. E.vj). 50-58 millim. 



Larva. Head green. Body robust, joint 12 enlarged dorsally ; 

 green, dotted with white ; a straight white dorsal line ; a broken 

 white lateral line, forming an angle on joint 12 ; a narrow white 

 stigmatal line. — H. G. D. 



2758, Amphipyra cupreipennis. (Plate CVIII. fig. 12.) 



Amphipp-a cupreipennis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 155 (1882); Hmpsii. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 192. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown ; palpi in front 

 and base of abdomen greyish. Fore wing uniform fuscous brown 

 without markings ; ciUa with a slight whitish line at base. Hind 

 wing cupreous red, tlie costal area reddish brown ; cilia fuscous 

 with a slight whitish line at base. 



Ilab. SiKHiM {Tefens), 1 2 • ^•*7>- "^^ millira. 



