PAEASTICHTIS. 



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rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the dorsal crests blackish, the ventral 

 surface ochreous at base. Eore wing fuscous suffused with leaden 

 grey and irrorated with black ; a rufous patch at base of costal 

 area and some rufous in discal fold from antemedial to subterminal 

 lines ; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold in which there is a slight black streak; an oblique 

 black streak above inner margin before the antemedial line which 

 is double, waved and retracted to inner margin ; claviform small, 

 slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with slight 

 Avhitish aunuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, the 

 latter constricted at middle, a faint waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line indistinctly don^ble, filled in with white at costa, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to black and white 

 points on the veins, very oblique below vein 4, some white points 

 beyond it on costa, the veins beyond the cell irrorated with Avhite 

 scales ; subterminal line represented by a series of short black 

 streaks on slight rufous streaks in the interspaces ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia blackish intersected with whitish. 

 Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous brown especially on 

 terminal area ; cilia ochreous with slight fuscous line through 

 them ; the underside ochreous irrorated with fuscous, the costal 

 area tiniied with purplish, a discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial 

 line, and indistinct diffused subterminal line. 



Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Cartwright, 1 2 , Aweme (Criddle), 

 1 2 ; U.S.A., Maine, Ohio {G. B. Pilate), 1 $ , Wisconsin, New 

 Mexico, Beulah (CocJcerell), 1 c? . jEa?p. 40-42 millim. 



2844. Parasticlitis fmierea. 



Hadena funerea, Fein. Schmet.t. Deutscli. i. p. 828 (1859) ; Snell. Tijds. 

 V. Ent. xl. p. 299, pi. 12. f. 1 ; Hot'm. Gr. fcichinett. ed. h. pi. 39. f. 27 ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 171. 



Head and thorax black mixed with pur|)iish red and some grey; 

 frons with lateral black bars ; tegulas with black medial line ; 

 patagia with black line near upper edge : tarsi black ringed with 

 pinkish ; abdomen fuscous, the lateral fringes and sides of anal 

 tuft purplish, the ventral surface irrorated with purplish. Fore 

 wing fuscous black more or less tinged with purplish ; subbasal line 

 represented by double oblique black strice from costa ; a sinuous 

 black streak in base of submedian fold and an oblique streak above 

 inner margin near base; antemedial line indistinctly double, angled 

 outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly waved, reti acted 

 to inner margin ; claviform narrow or small, defined by black ; 

 orbicular very obluiue elliptical, defined by black ; reniform defined 

 by black with a little white in centre and some white points on 

 upper and outer edges and slight black streaks beyond it in the 

 interspaces ; an indistinct curved minutely waved medial line ; 

 postmedial line double at costa, bent outwards below costa, then 

 indistinct, minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, 



