480 NOCTUID^. 



annulus defined by black, somewhat quadrate, postmedial line 

 double, slightly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line pale, defined on inner side 

 by a fuscous shade, nearly evenly curved ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunulos. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous ; cilia 

 whitish ; the underside with dark discoidal spot and postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Garfield Co. Exp. 46 millim. This 

 S]>ecies is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*3338. Luperina extensa. (Plate CXIX. fig. 29.) 



Luperma cxtmisa. Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xiii. p. 203 (1905). 



cJ . Head and thorax dull brown mixed with ochreous, the palpi, 

 frons, and base of tegulae more ochreous ; abdomen ochreous tinged 

 v.'ith brown. Fore wing dull brown suffused over ochreous ; an 

 ochreous streak in submedian fold from base to near subterminal 

 line, defined by black below at base ; subbasal line absent ; 

 antemedial line represented by some black scales on the paler areas, 

 a black streak before it above inner margin ; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular and reniform ochreous defined by black, the former very 

 narrow and oblique, the latter rather narrow, dilated below ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, dark brown becoming blackish towards inner 

 margin and slightly defined by ochreous on outer side, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and some- 

 what sinuous ; subterminal line represented by a series of ochreous 

 lunules defined on inner side by dentate black marks and by slight 

 blackish marks on outer, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 terminal series of blackish lunules ; cilia ochreous. Hind wing 

 ochreous tinged with brown, the terminal area darker ; cilia pale ; 

 the underside ochreous white, the costal and apical areas irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal spot and punctiform postmedial line. 



Bah. Canada, Assiniboia, Eegina. Exp. 40 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in 

 Coll. J. B. Smith. 



3339. Luperina passer. (Plate CXIX. fig. 30.) 



Mamestra passer, Guen. Noct. i. p. 195 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 1?1. 

 J,jroiis incalMa, Wlk. x. 330 (1856). 



Lueeria looulata, Morr. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 110 (1874). 

 iMceria conspicua, Morr. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. Ill (1874). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with fuscous and some grey ; 

 tegulaj with traces of a dark medial lino ; abdomen grey-brown, the 

 anal tult tinged with ochreous. Fore wing reddish brown suffused 

 with purplish fuscous ; a more or less developed diffused black 



