100 



iS^OCTUIDiE. 



with fuscous, a black discoidal spot, sinuous postraedial line, aad 

 diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. Canada, Renfrew Co., 1 $, Orilla (Bush), 1 $ type 

 contenta ; U.S.A., New York (Douhledca./) , 4 J type, Pennsylvania, 

 1 (S , New Jersey, Illinois, Colorado. Exp. 44-50 millim. 



Larva. Head shining pale brown. Body cylindrical, smaller 

 behind, wood-brown, shaded with dark brown, leaving pale dorsal 

 and subdorsal lines and a broad substigmatal one ; cervical shield 

 dark brown, cut by a pale line. The dorsal line is strongly bor- 

 dered by the dark shade. — H. G. D. 



2842. Parastichtis multicolora. (Plate CX. fig. 10.) 

 Hadena multicolor, Dy&v, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. Ti. p. 103 (1904). 



2 . Head and tegular whitish mixed with dark brown, the latter 

 with blackish medial line and tips, the frons with lateral black bars 

 and vertex of head with blackish bar ; thorax red-brown mixed 

 with some grey, the patagia suffused with blackish ; pectus and 

 legs whitish mixed with red-brown ; abdomen grey-brown, the 

 crests blackish at tips. Fore wing greyish suffused with red-brown 

 and irrorated with fuscous, the medial area darker ; subbasal line 

 represented by slight blackish striae from costa and cell ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, double filled in with greyish, oblique, 

 slightly waved, bent inwards to inner margin; claviform hardly 

 traceable, ^somewhat darker ; orbicular pale with very indistinct 

 difFased dark outline, somewhat oblique ; reniform with prominent 

 white lunule on outer edge, otherwise hardly traceable, somewhat 

 darker ; postmedial line very indistinct, double filled in with 

 greyish, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, oblique 

 below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa and a diffused 

 blackish patch in submedian interspace ; subterminal line very 

 indistinct, pale, incurved at discal fold: and below vein 3, the area 

 beyond it suftused with blackish except towards apex; cilia pale 

 rufous with series of blackish lunules at tips. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown ; a faint 

 dark discoidal lunule and fine blackish terminal line; cilia whitish; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with red-brown especially on costal 

 and terminal areas, a dark discoidal lunule, and indistinct diffused 

 sinuous postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. Cawab^, Br. Columbia, Victoria; U.S.A., California ( IFctZ- 

 sinr/hain), 1 $ . Exp. 4G millim. 



2843, Parastichtis plutonia. (Plate CX. fig. 11.) 



Hadena 'pluionia, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p: 9 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noot. 

 N. Am. p. 135. 



2 . Head and thorax black-brown with a leaden gloss and mixed 

 with rufous ; frons and vertex of head with black bars ; teguhe 

 rufous at base and with black medial line ; tarsi black with pale 



