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with fine pale line at base. Hind Aviiig ochreous tinged with 

 brown ; the veins and terminal area suffused Avith brown ; a slight 

 discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line and some whitish on termen 

 towards tornus ; cilia ochreous white with a brown line through 

 them ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with rufous, the 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line more distinct. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the postmedial area paler and more 

 ochreous except towards costa. 



Hab. Canada, Yancouver, 1 c? , 1 $ , AYellington {Taylor), 1 9 ; 

 U.S.A., Washington Terr., 5 $ type c/jmosa, California, 2 (5 , 1 2 

 type. Exji. 52-56 millim. 



2849. Parasticlitis arctica. 



Hadena arctica, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 120 (1840), nun desci'. ; Frr. Neue 

 Beitr. V. p. 19, pi. 394. f. 1 (1842) ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Sehmett , Noct. 

 f. 1.35; G-iien. Noct. i. p. 193, pi. 6. f. 9; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 137 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 173. 



Hadena amputatrix, Fitcla, 3rd Rep. Ins. N. Y. p. 107 (1859). 



Haclena arnica, Harr. Inj. Ins. Flint, ed. p. 450, f. 222 (1862). 



Eurois pluviosa, Wlk. xxxiii. 725 (1865) ; Smith, Cab. Noct. N. Am. p. 138. 



Head and thorax clothed with deep purple-brown and grey-white 

 scales, the dorsal crest bright rufous ; sides of frons with blackish 

 bars ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen brownish grey, the 

 crests and dorsum towards extremity pale purple. Pore wing 

 deep purple-brown thickly irrorated with grey-white, a patch of 

 ochreous white in submedian interspace before antemedial line, the 

 outer part of postmedial area ochreous white except towards costa ; 

 a slight waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold defined 

 by whitish on outer side ; antemedial line double filled in with 

 white, oblique, highly waved ; claviform small or moderate, defined 

 by brown with greyish patch beyond it and slight dark streak from 

 it to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform ochreous greyish 

 defined by brown, the former oblique elliptical, the latter with its 

 lower part more or less suffused with fuscous and with one white 

 point at inner angle and two at outer angle ; a waved postmedial 

 line oblique from costa to below cell ; postmedial line defined by 

 grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and 

 produced to black and white points on the veins, incurved below 

 vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line 

 whitish, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, inwards in discal fold 

 and incurved below vein 3, the area beyond it dark except at apex; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with punctiform 

 white line at base. Hind wing grey suffused with brown, the veins 

 and terminal area rather darker ; a slight discoidal lunule and 

 sinuous postmedial line, some whitish on termen towards tornus ; 

 the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 brown, a blackish discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



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