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NOCXCJID,!!;. 



i^S53. Parastichtis rorulenta. (Plate CX. fig. 19.) 

 Xylophasia rorulenta. Smith, Psyche, xi. p. 55 (1904). 



Head and thorax grey irrorated with dark brown and slightly- 

 tinged with rufous ; palpi blackish at sides ; frons with lateral 

 black bars ; tegulae with slight dark line near tips ; tarsi blackish 

 with pale rings ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous brown, the 

 crests blackish at tips, the anal tiift tinged with rufous. Fore wing 

 pale violaceous grey wich slight black irroration, the costal half 

 suffused Avith rufous ; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from 

 eosta to vein 1 ; antemedial line indistinct, double, oblique, waved ; 

 claviform faintly defined by rufous above ; orbicular defined by 

 rufous at sides, large, round ; reniform with its centre suffused with 

 fuscous and greyish annulus slightly defined by rufous, more or less 

 broken up into points ; an indistinct waved medial line, oblique 

 from costa to below cell ; postmedial line very indistinct, defined 

 by grey on outer side and with series of black points beyond it on 

 the veins, bent outwards below costa, somewhat incurved at discal 

 fold and incurved below vein 4, some white points on a diffused 

 fuscous patch beyond it on costa; subterminal line very indistinct, 

 defined on inner side by the dark costal patch, then by a series of 

 black marks, larger at discal and submedian folds, waved, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards at discal and sub- 

 median folds, the area beyond it suffused with blackish except at 

 apex and tornus ; a terminal series of rather triangular black 

 spots ; cilia ochreous brown chequered with fuscous. Hind wing 

 greyish tinged with ochreous and suffused with fuscous especially 

 on terminal area ; cilia whitish tinged with pale rufous ; the under- 

 side greyish tinged with rufous and irrorated with fuscous, a black 

 discoidal spot and rather diffused sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Aweme {Criddle), 1 c? , Winnipeg, 

 Alberta, Calgary (W'oUey-Dod), 3 $; U.S.A., New York, Sharon 

 (MesJce), 1 $ , Colorado, Denver. Exp. 42-44 millim. This is 

 probably an aberration of P. suffusca. 



2854. Parastichtis suffusca. (Plate CX. fig. 20.) 



Hadena suffusca, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 61 ; Smith, Cat. 

 Nocb. N. Am. p. 133. 



Head and thorax grey suffused with purplish red ; sides of palpi 

 and frons blackish, tegulae with slight dark medial line ; patagia 

 with some black scales near upper edge ; the dorsal crest mixed 

 with blackish ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown, the anal tuft 

 and ventral surface tinged with rufous, the dorsal crests blackish. 

 Pore wing pale to deep purplish grey, the costal area suffused with 

 rufous, extending in some specimens on basal and medial areas to 

 submedian fold, the inner area with some dark irroration ; subbasal 

 line represented by slight striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, waved, oblique, bent inwards to inner margin ; 

 claviform faintly defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform with 



