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outwards below costa, then with double series of black points 

 beyond it on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some pale points 

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

 by slight dentate dark marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 dentate to termen at veins 4, 3, with dark patches beyond it above 

 and below middle; a terminal series of black points; cilia chequered 

 ochreous and dark brown. Hind wing greyish suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; slight postmedial dark points on vein 2 ; cilia 

 or;hreous white ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal point, sinuous postmedial line, 

 and traces of diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Middle and Eastern States, New York, Buffalo, 

 1 2 type, Evans Center (Orote), 1 (^ , Distr. of Columbia, Kansas, 

 Douglas Co. (Snow), 1 d" , 1 $ • ^'Vp. 44-46 millim. 



2S26. Parastichtis auranticolora. (Plate CIX. fig. 30.) 



Hadeiia auranficolor, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 109 (1873) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Aui. p. 140. 



Head and thorax deep rufous ; frons with black bar ; tegulae with 

 black medial line ; patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with purplish red, the dorsal crests blackish 

 and grey at tips. Fore wing ochreous mostly suffused with deep 

 rufois and with some greyish on antemedial and postmedial areas ; 

 the yeins irrorated with grey ; subbasal line represented by double 

 oblique strife from costa ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; 

 an oblique streak above inner margin before the antemedial line, 

 whijh is angled outwards below costa and in cell and more strongly 

 in submedian fold and above inner margin ; a blackish streak in 

 submedian fold from it to postmedial line ; claviform short defined 

 by rufous ; orbicular and reniform large with slight pale annuli 

 defined by rufous, the former very oblique elliptical, the latter 

 extending to below cell and angled inwards on median nervure ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then dentate 

 and produced to black points on the veins, oxcurved to vein 4, then 

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

 pale, defined by rufous on inner side and by dentate marks at 

 middle, excurved below vein 7 and dentate to near termen at veins 

 4, 3, the area beyond it deep rufous ; a terminal series of black 

 points ; cilia chequered rufous and fuscous. Hind wing ochreous 

 white suffused with fuscous especially on terminal area ; a slight 

 pale postmedial line ; cilia pale rufous with a slight dark line 

 through them ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 rufous, a discoidal point and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing more purple-brown instead of 

 rufous, the subterminal line dentate to termen on veins 4, 3 ; hind 

 wing darker. — Washington. 



Hah. U.S.A., Nebraska, "Washington, 1 ? » Oregon, Colorado 

 (Snow), 2 J type, New Mexico, Beulah (Cockerell), 1 5, Arizona. 

 Kvj). 44-50 millim. 



