82 



2819. Parastichtis cariosa. (Plate CIX. fig. 26.) 



Xylophasia cariosa, Guen. Noct. i. p. 144 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 139. 

 Hadena idonea, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 18 (1882). 

 Hadena china, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 7 (1898) ; Dyar, 



Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 115. 



Head and thorax grey tinged with brown and mixed with black ; 

 sides of palpi and frons black ; tegulse with medial black line; patagia 

 with black streak near upper edge ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with fuscous, the dorsal crests dark, the anal 

 tuft ochreous. Pore wing grey faintly tinged with purplish and 

 irrorated with fuscous, the inner area more or less suffused with 

 fuscous ; subbasal line represented by two black strise from costa, 

 a sinuous black streak in base of submedian fold and oblique 

 streaks above vein 1 and inner margin before the antemedial line, 

 which is double, angled outwards below costa, then oblique waved, 

 retracted to inner margin ; claviform defined by black, with a black 

 streak from its lower edge to postmedial line ; orbicular and 

 reniform whitish defined by black and their centres by fuscous, the 

 former rounded ; an indistinct medial line oblique from costa to 

 vein 2 ; postmedial line double at costa, bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely dentate and produced to double black points on the 

 veins with white points between them, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved and defined by white on outer side ; some white points 

 beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish, defined on inner 

 side by deytate black marks except towards costa, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and dentate to termen at veins 4, 3, then incurved, the 

 area beyond it blackish except at apex ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia fuscous intersected with grey. Hind wing 

 greyish uniformly suffused with fuscous, the cilia ochreous ; the 

 underside whitish tinged with brown, the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a dark discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and diffused 

 subterminal bund. 



Hah. Canada, 1 $ ; U.S.A., Maine to Texas, New Tork, 2 S, 

 type idonea, Trenton Falls (Doubleday), 4 $ type, New Jersey, 

 Anglesea, 1 $, Ohio, Columbus (Tallant), 1 J, Arizona. Exp. 

 44-46 millim. 



2820. Parastichtis relicina. (Plate CIX. fig. 27.) 



Hadena relicina, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 216 (1874) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 140. 



5 . Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with some grey ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; frons with lateral black bars : teguloe with 

 black medial lino ; abdomen whitish suffused with brown. Fore 

 wing whitish thickly irrorated and suffused with brown except 

 below and beyond end of cell, the veins streaked with black ; a 

 black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line represented by slight 

 oblique dark strise from costa; antemedial line indistinct, rather 

 strongly dentate ; claviform defined by black, elongate and acute 



