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below costa, then reduced to double black points on the veins, 

 below vein 2 incurved and defined by white on outer side, some 

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

 angled outwards at vein 7 and to termen at veins 4, 3, then 

 incurved, with dark patches beyond it above and below middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia fuscous intersected with rufous. 

 Hind wing ochreous whitish nearly uniformly suflPused with fuscous ; 

 a fine dark terminal line ; cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous 

 white, the costal and terminal areas tinged with red-brown and 

 irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial 

 line with minute dark streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Canada, Ottawa {Young), 1 J , 2 2 ; U.S.A., Middle, Eastern 

 and Central States, Massachuseti-s, Beverly, 1 $ , j^ew York, Trenton 

 Falls {Doubleday), 2 J, 2 § type, Evans Center (Grote), 1 c? , 3 $ , 

 Schenectady (Lintner), 1 J , 1 5 . Exp. 46-50 millim. 



2818. Parastichtis nigrior. (Plate CIX. fig. 25.) 



Xqlo-pha&ia nigrior. Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 437 (1890); id. 

 'Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 139. 



5 . Head and thorax white mixed with purplish brown and 

 black ; sides of palpi and frons blackish ; tegulos with black medial 

 line ; patagia with diffused black streak near upper edge ; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with grey ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown, 

 the dorsal crests dark at tips. Fore wing grey- white suffused 

 with purple and fuscous, leaving the costal area whitish to post- 

 medial line, the veins streaked with black and defined by whitish, 

 especially veins 4, 3 ; subbasal line represented by double obliqae 

 black striae from costa ; a sinuous black streak in base of submedian 

 fold, and an oblique streak above inner margin before the ante- 

 medial line which is indistinct, double at costa, then oblique, 

 dentate, very strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and 

 above inner margin, a diffused black fascia in submedian interspace 

 from before it to postmedial line almost obliterating the claviform ; 

 orbicular and reniform with grey annuli defined by black, the 

 former smnll, very oblique elliptical ; traces of a waved medial 

 line oblique from costa to median ncrvure ; postmedial line defined 

 by white on outer side, double at costa, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of dentate black 

 marks in the interspaces with slight whitish marks on them and 

 emitting streaks to the terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia fuscous intersected with ochreous. Hind wing pale tinged 

 with ochreous and nearly uniformly suffused with fuscous, the 

 veins and a fine terminal line dark; cilia ochreous white with 

 some fuscous marks near tips ; the underside white tinged with 

 ochreous and irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal lunule and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Maine, Xew York, Evans Center {Grote), 3 $ . 

 Exp. 48 millim. 



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