AGKOPERINA^ 401 



indistinct, pale, slightly defined by brown on inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules. Hind wing pale sufFased with ochreous brown, 

 the veins and terminal area darker ; cilia ochreous ; the underside 

 ochreous white, the costal and terminal areas tinged with purplish 

 and irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point and curved post- 

 medial line with minute dark streaks on the veins. 



Ah. 1. horealis. Darker and browner. — Lapland. 



Ab. 2. Pale purplish red. 



Ab. 3. bX^Killescens. Fore wing ochreous suffused with pale red 

 except on inner and postmedial areas, the terminal area tinged with 

 brown.— W. & E. Turkestan, Tibet. 



Hah. Canada {Norman), 1 $, Ottawa (Fletcher, Young), 2 r? , 

 jS'ova Scotia (Redman), 1 $ . Anticosti, Manitoba, Aweme 

 (CridcUe), 1 d, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley-Dod), 2 d, 1 $ , Red 

 Deer E. (Wolley-Dod), 1 $ , Olds ( Willing), 1 (^ , 2 $ , Saskatche- 

 wan (Fletcher), 1 J , Eocky Mts. (Ld. Derby), 2 2 ■< type obliviosa, 

 Vancouver I., 1.$; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Beverly (Burg), 1 c? , 

 3 2 , New York (Packard, Speyer), 3 c? , 1 2 i Colorado, 1 S ; 

 Fkance, Sand Coll. ; Denmark, Leech Coll. ; Germany, Zeller and 

 Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland Frey Coll., 

 Zermatt (A. H. Jones), Engadine, Erey Coll. ; jST. Lpaly ; Scandi- 

 navia ; Lapland ; Finland, Zeller Coll. ; Eussia, Livonia, Zeller 

 Coll. ; Balcans ; Armenia ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 J > 1 2 , 

 Ferghana, Ala Tau, Issyk Kul, Sarawschan ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; 

 Tibet, Amdo, Gyangtse (Walton), 1 S, 5 $; Mongolia, Urga ; 

 E. Siberia, Amurland, TJssuri ; Japan (Lewis), 1 $ ; Kashmir, 

 Dras (Leech), 1 c?, Goorais Valley (Leech), 1 2 ■, ^'a]:)Ta(McArthur), 

 2 2 • Exj). 46-54 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. Moths Eur. p. 240; Hffiii. Kaup. p. 97, pi. 27. f. 14. 



Dark grey with the thoracic and anal plates black ; head brown. 

 Food-plants, Grasses. 4. 



*3230. ? Agroperina illustra. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 1.) 

 Xylophasia illustra. Smith, Atm. N.Y. Ac. Sci. xviii. p. 114 (1908). 



S . Head and thorax fuscous black ; abdomen grey irrorated 

 with fuscous. Fore wing dull fuscous black aud without markings 

 except the reniform, which is indicated by some pale scales and a 

 slight subterminal line formed of whitish scales defined on inner side 

 by some velvety black scales and very faintly angled outwards at 

 veins 4, 3 ; cilia with a slight yellowish line at base, somewhat 

 punctiform at the veins. Hind wing grey tinged with ochreous ; 

 cilia paler with a dark line at base; the underside whitish irrorated 

 ■with brown, a brown discoidal spot. 



Hal. Canada, Alberta, High E. Exp. 28 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in Coll. 

 J. B. Smith. 



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