L.UP£KINA. 469 



veins 4, 3, the area beyond it tinged with fuscous except at apex ; 

 a terminal series of small black lanales. Hind wing uniform 

 ochreous white ; the underside with the costal area slightly 

 irrorated with brown, 



Eab. U.S.A., Maine, Kittery Poiut, 1 <5 ,. 1 $ , Massachusetts, 

 Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Colorado. EA-p. 4U milLira. 



3319. Luperina niccerli. 



Apamea nickerlii, Frr. Neue Beitr. v. p. 140, pL 466. f. 4 (1848); Herr.- 

 SchJiff. Eur. Schmett.,. Noct. ±. .''iBS ; de Graslin, Ann. soc. Ent. Fr. (4) 

 iii. p. 309, pi. 8. f. 8 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 168. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed «rith dark brown ; sides of 

 pal])i and froiis dark brown ; tarsi brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing grey-white 

 suffused with brown and with slight dark irroration ; subbasal line 

 represented by two slight dark striae from costa ; an oblique 

 blackish streak above inner margin before the antemedial line, 

 which is blackish defined by white on inner side, interrupted, 

 angled outwards below costa, in submedian interspace and above 

 inner margin ; claviform represented by a small black wedge-shaped 

 mark with dark streak from it to postmedial line ; orbicular and 

 reniform with white annuli defined by black, the former very small, 

 irregularly rounded, with blackish spot before it in cell, the latter 

 angled inwards on subcostal and median nervures and with black 

 spot on its outer edge ; a very indistinct waved medial line ; post- 

 medial line indistinctly double filled in with wtiite, slightly bene 

 outwards below costa, excurved just beyond reniform to vein 4, 

 then incurved and touching lower edge of reniform, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish 

 with slight brown marks on its inner side at middle, somewhat 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia, with a 

 dark line near base. Hind wing pure white; the underside with 

 tlie costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot 

 and terminal series of small black lunules from apex to vein 2. 



Bah. Ekance, Sand Coll.; Cermany-, Eohemia, Zeller, Frey, and 

 Leech Colls. Exj). 32-38 millim. 



3320. Luperina biirgessi. (Plate CXIX. fig. 17.) 



Luceria burgessi, Morr. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 109 (1874) ; Smith, 



Oat. Ifoot. N. Ara. p. 132. 

 Haclena discors, Grote, 'Irans. Kansas Ac. Sci. vii. p. 64 (1831). 



c? . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; metathoracic 

 crest blackish ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous 

 white, the ventral surface white irrorated with brown. Fore wing 



