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NOCTUID.E. 



2827. Parasticlitis lignicolora. (Plate CIX. fig. 31.) 



A'ylophasia lignicolora, Guen. Noct. i. p. 140 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



"N. Ain. p. 140. 

 Kadena quasita, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 2G (1876). 



Head and thorax ochreous suffused with purplish rufous ; palpi/ 

 tinged with fuscous at sides ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegulae 

 with slight medial dark line ; patagia with some dark scales near 

 upper edge ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous 

 tiuged with rufous. Fore wing ochreous irrorated and suffused in 

 parts with bright rufous, especially on costal and terminal areas, 

 the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line represented by 

 double oblique striae from costa ; a sinuous blackish streak belaw 

 base of cell and slight wedge-shaped mark above inner margin near 

 base ; aiitemedial line very indistinct, double at costa, then oblitjue, 

 waved, angled inwards on vein 1 and retracted to inner margiii, a 

 dark streak in submedian fold from it to postmedial line ; orbicalar 

 and reniform with slight rufous centres and defined by rufous, the 

 former very oblique elliptical, the latter angled inwards on median 

 nervure ; faint traces of a wa,ved medial line ; postmedial line 

 defined by ochreous on outer side, double at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate and produced to a double series of dark 

 points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale slightly defined by 

 rufous on inner side, with dentate marks before it at middle and 

 streak in submedian fold, angled outwards at vein 7 and to termen 

 at veins 4,, 3, the area beyond it deep rufous except at apei ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia rufous with a fine pale 

 line at base. Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area tinged 

 wilh brown ; a terminal series of brown stria3 : the underside with 

 the costal area tinged with reddish and slightly irrorated with 

 brown, a slight discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line, 



Ab. 1. qucesita. Ground-colour greyer and less ochreous, the 

 suffusion on thorax and fore wing deep purple-brown, the markings 

 dark ; abdomen grey-brown; hind wing fuscous brown. 



Ilab. Canada (Norman), 1 J , Eenfrew Co., 1 5 , Nova Scotia 

 (Redman), 8 <S , Ottawa (Fletcher, Young, Saunders), 3 S , 2 J , 

 London (Saundei^s), 1 5, Manitoba, Aweme (Criddle), 1 5, Cart- 

 wright (Heath), 1 $ ; IJ.8.A., Northern, Eastern, Middle and 

 AVestern States, Maine, 1 (S type qucesita, Massachusetts, Beverly, 

 1 J , 2 5 , New York, Trenton Falls (Doiihled ay), 1^,1? type, 

 Evans Center (Grote), 4 d' , 3 5 , Schenectady (Lintner), 1 $, 

 Illinois, Chicago, 1 $ , California ( Walsingliam), 1 $ . Exp. 44-52 

 millim. 



*2828. Parastichtis antennata. (Plate CIX. fig. 32.) 



Xj/lophasia antennata, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 439 (1890) ; id. 

 Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 140. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown mixed with 

 reddish brown ; tegula) with dark medial line ; patagia with dark 



