400 JfOCTUID^. 



and irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule, sinuous 

 postmedial liue, and terminal series of sfcria3. 



Hah. Canada, Hudson's Bay (Baniston), 1 $ , Alberta, Calgary 

 {WoUey-Dod), 1 d, Br. Columbia, Kaslo (OocMe), 2 c? , 2 $ 

 (J. H. Keen), 1 5 , Sicamous (Bicardo), 1 5 , lievelstoko 

 (Mrs. NichoU), 1 5, Vancouver ^Bush), 1 S, 1 2, Wellington 

 {Taylor), 1 $; U.S.A., New Hampshire, Washington 2 2, 

 Colorado, Manicou, Calitornia, Sierra Nevada (Walsinr/Jiam), 1 c? , 

 1 5 . E.i^}. 42-50 millim. 



322U. Agroperina lateritia. 



VhalcBua laferifia, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 306 (1767); Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 131. ff. 3-4; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 208, pi. 113. f. 5; Frr. Neiie 



Beitr. i. pi. iS^^ ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 134 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 173. 

 Noctua molocMiia, Hiibn. Eur. Scbinett., Noct. f. 74 (1802). 

 Mamesira obliviosa. Wlb. xt. 1683 (1858). 

 Hadena expaliescens, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1382, p. 41. 

 Hadcna satina, Streck, Lep. Rbop. & Het , Suppl. i.p. 8 (1898) ; Dyar, Cat. 



Lep. N. Am. p. 115. 

 Hadena borealis, Strand. Arch. Naturv. Cliristian. xxv. 9, p. 13 (1903). 



Head and thorax dark purplish red ; palpi and frons at sides 

 dark brown ; pectus with the hair pale ; tarsi dark brown ringed 

 with whitish ; abdomen ochreous or reddish brown, greyish at base. 

 Fore wing purplish red-brown -with slight dark irroration, the 

 costal area rather browner, the veins irrorated with some white 

 scales ; subbasal line indistinct, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double at costa, oblique to submedian fold, 



Agroperina lateritia, (^ , 



angled inwards to a dark point on vein 1 and bent inwards to inner 

 margin; claviform absent; orbicular and reniform narrow with 

 dark brown centres and incomplete white annuli, the former oblique 

 elliptical ; a dark medial shade, oblique from costa to vein 2, 

 then incurved ; postmedial line double and filled in with whitish 

 at costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to 

 black and white points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then 

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



