AGROPEEINA. 399 



medial Hue oblique from oosta to below cell ; postmedial line 

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

 then minutely dentate and produced to black and white points on 

 the veins, oblique below vein 4, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line formed of white strife defined on inner side 

 by slight dentate black marks, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; 

 cilia with a series of white points at base. Hind wing greyish 

 suffused with fuscous brown, the -veins and terminal area rather 

 darker; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia ochreous white with a dark 

 line through them : the underside ochreous whitish, the costal and 

 terminal areas thickly irrorated with fuscous, the costal area tinged 

 with purple, a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hob. Canada, 1 c5' , 1 5 , Renfrew Co., 2 S , Toronto (Front), 1 cj" , 

 Ottawa (Gibson, Fletcher, Young, Saunders), 6 c? , 3 $ , London 

 (Saunders), 1 c? , 1 $ , I^ova ycotia (Redman), 1 5 . U.S.A., 

 Eastern, Northern, Middle and Central States (Douhleday), 

 3 c? , 1 2 , type and type inslgnata, Massachusetts (Burg), 1 j , 

 N"ew York, Evans Center (Grote), 1 c? , 1 5 type sputator, Penn- 

 sylvania, IN'ew Brighton (Merrick), 1 $ , Ohio, 1 5 , ? ? Pekak, 

 1 S type amanda. Exp. 44-48 millim. 



3228. Agroperina cogitata. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 11.) 



Apamca hisignata, Wlk. Can. Nat. & Geol. t. p. 254 (1860), nee VVlk. 



1857. 

 Xylophctsia cogitata, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas. xiii. p. 421 (1890) ; id. 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 135. 



Head and thorax deep purplish red with a few white hairs ; 

 palpi with some fuscous hairs ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; 

 abdomen pale or bright rufous, greyish at base, the crests rufous. 

 Fore wing deep purplish rufous, the veins blackish irrorated with 

 white scales ; subbasal line represented by a whitish striga from 

 costa ; antemedial. lino indistinct, slightly defined by whitish on 

 inner side, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform minute, slightly defined by brown 

 and with a few white scales in centre ; orbicular small with fuscous 

 centre and incomplete white annulus defined by brown, oblique 

 elliptical; reniform with dark centre with white lunule on it and 

 incomplete white annulus ; an indistinct medial shade angled on 

 median nervure ; postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then with series of black and 

 white points beyond it on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; subterminal line white slightly defined by brown on inner 

 side ; angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a fine 

 dark terminal line interrupted by white points at the veins ; cilia 

 with a fine white line at base. Hind wing greyish suff"used with 

 fuscous brown, the veins and terminal area darker, the termen 

 sometimes tinged with rufous towards tornus ; cilia rufous ; the 

 underside ochreous white, the costal area tinged with purplish red 



