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at costa, beut outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to 

 double black points on the veins, oblique below vein 4, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa; subterminal line only defined by the 

 area beyond it being suffused with rufous and black except at apex 

 and the veins of terminal area streaked with black and irrorated 

 with white, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and 

 strongly angled inwards at discal and submedian folds almost to 

 postraedial line ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia 

 blackish intersected with oehreous. Hind wing greyish ochreous 

 suffused with fuscous especially on terminal area ; an indistinct 

 postmedial line from vein 4 to inner margin defined by greyish on 

 outer side; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia ochreous with a fuscous 

 line through them : the underside ochreous irrorated with fuscous, 

 the costal and terminal areas tinged with purplish pink, a discoidal 

 spot, sinuous postmedial line, and traces of diffused subterminal 

 line. 



Hab. Canada, Manitoba, Aweme (Oriddle), 1 $ , Alberta, Calgarv 

 (Wolleij-Dod), 1 J, 3 ?; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, Middle and 

 Central States, Massachusetts, jSTew York, Trenton Falls (Double- 

 day), 1 2 ; Kvans Center, 1 c? , 1 ? fype. J^-^^jf. 44-46 millim. 



2841. Parastichtis apamiformis. (Plate CX. fig. 9.) 



Xyloplmsia apamiformis, G-uen. Noct. i. p. 137 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



jy. Am. p. 1.33. ■ 

 Hadena contenta, Wlk. si. 751 (1857). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with fuscous ; palpi blackish 

 at sides ; f'rons with lateral black bars ; tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen greyish brown tinged with fuscous, the dorsal crests and 

 anal tuft rufous. Fore wing greyish brown more or less suffused 

 with purplish red and with slight dark irroration ; subbasal line 

 represented by double oblique black striae from costa and cell ; 

 antemedial line rather indistinctly double, oblique, waved, angled 

 inwards on vein 1 and to inner margin ; claviform small or 

 moderate, defined by black ; orbicular wdth slight brown centre 

 and pale annulus defined by black, very oblique elliptical; reniform 

 fuscous defined by black with brown bar on inner side and ochreous 

 lunule with striga above and two white points below it on outer 

 side; an indistinct curved dentate medial line; postmedial line 

 indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 dentate and with black and white points beyond it on the veins, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some ochreous points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line pale slightly defined on inner side by 

 brown and with blackish patches before it at costa, middle and 

 submedian fold, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, the area 

 beyond it suffused with black except at apex ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; cilia fuscous intersected with rufous. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown, paler at base, the veins dark ; a fine black 

 terminal line : cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous white irrorated 



