386 NOCTTJID^. 



ochreous ; tegulse with slight black medial line ; the thoracic crests 

 tipped with reddish ochreous ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; 

 abdomen grey-brown. Foro wing dark red-brown tinged with 

 fuscous and slightly irrorated with grey and ochreous ; subbasal 

 line ochreous, slightly waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 very indistinct, with slight ochreous marks on its inner side in the 

 interspaces, curved ; claviform faintly defined by dark brown ; 

 orbicular faintly defined by dark brown, oblique elliptical ; reniform 

 indistinctly defined by black, with whitish lunule in centre and with 

 slight curved line on it ; an indistinct medial line, oblique and 

 shghtly waved below the cell ; postmedial line indistinct, blackish, 

 defined on outer side by grey towards costa, bent outwards below 

 costa, then produced to slight dark streaks on the veins with grey 

 points at their extremities, incurved below vein 4, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line formed of small 

 ochreouR-white spots, angled outwards at vein 7 and ex curved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of slight black points ; cilia fuscous and 

 greyish, with minute white points at base and slight dark medial 

 line. Hind wing greyish suffused with red-brown and the terminal 

 area with fuscous ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia brownish white 

 with a dark line through them ; the underside grey irrorated with 

 brown and the costal area tinged with rufous, a small black 

 discoidal spot, rather diffused sinuous postmedial line, and traces of 

 diffused subterminal line. 



Hah. U.S.A., New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, in Coll. 

 J. B. Smith. Ecop. 34 millim. 



3211. Oligia arcta. 



Hadena arcta, Led. Vtrh, zo''il.-bot. Ges, Wien, iii. p. 370, pi. 2. f. 5 



(I8ni5); Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 175. 

 Eaphia fasciaia, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 193(1878) ; id. 111. Het. B. M. 



ii. p. 33, pi. 31. f. 5. ^ 

 Miana parictum, Oberth. Et. Ent. v. p. 73, pi. 3. f. 15 (1880). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey, tinged with reddish brown and 

 irrorated with black ; palpi blackish at sides ; tarsi black Avith pale 

 rings ; abdomen with the dorsal crests black. Fore wing grey- 

 tinged with brown and slightly irrorated with fuscous, the ante- 

 medial costal area and medial area to reniform much suffused with 

 black with straight outer edge ; subbasal line represented by double 

 oblique black strife from costa ; a blackish streak in cell before the 

 orbicular intersecting the antemedial line which is double filled in 

 with whitish, angled outwards below costa, then strongly and 

 obliquely excurved ; claviform represented by a slight black streak 

 to postmedial line ; orbicular with whitish annulus defined by 

 black, its centre defined by brown, oblique elliptical ; reniform with 

 whitish annulus defined on inner side by an oblique black bar; 

 medial line rather diffused, oblique towards costa ; postmedial line 

 double at costa, bent outwards below costa, then rather strongly 

 dentate and i)roduced to slight black points on the veins, below vein 



