498 KOCTUIDiE. 



(BusJie), 1 2 , Br. Columbia, Sieamous Junction (3Hss Ricardo), 2 S , 

 2 5 , Vancouver (IlawMns), 1 $ , Wellington (Taylor), 1 $ ; U.S.A., 

 Northern, Eastern and Central States, New York (Bouhleday), 2 c? 

 type, Center (W. Hill), 4 c? , 3 $ type v-hrunneum, Lewis Co. 

 (W. Hill), 1 5, Pennsylvania, New Brighton (Merrick), 1 c? , 

 Washington Terr., 1 5 > Colorado. Eaji. 46-52 millim. 



Larva. Head shining, light brown. Body uniform, red-brown, 

 slightly mottled with faint oblique streaks; substigmatal band 

 pale, badly defined ; no contrasted marks, all much the colour of 

 dead leaves. Eood-plants, various.^ — H. G. J), 



Genus HABEYNTIS. 



Type, 

 Habrt/ntis, Led . Noct. Eur. pp. 35 & 1 14 ( 1 857) sciia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturnecl, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and fringed with long hair in front, the ^rd short ; frons 

 smooth with large tuft of hair ; eyes lai-ge, round ; antennae of male somewhat 

 laminate and minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair only, the tegnlse 

 produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the prothorax with triangular crest, the 

 metathorax with paired crests ; tibise fringed with long hair ; abdomen clothed 

 with rough hair at base, with dorsal series of crests formed of hair only and 

 lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the apex obliquely truncate, the 

 termen and cUia dentate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 froni 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from well 

 below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anatomosing with 

 •the ceil near base only. 



3358. Habryiitis scita. 



Noctua scita, Hiibn. Beitr. ii. 2, p. 35, pi. 1 a (1791); id. Ear Schmett., 

 Noct. ff. 68, 475 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 337, pi. 94. ff. 1, 2; Frr. Neue 

 Beitr. ii. pi. 105 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 185. 



Head and thorax white suffused with pale olive-green ; tegulfe 

 with slight white line near tips; patagia with white line near 

 base ; metathoracic crest white ; tarsi slightly ringed with white ; 

 abdomen white faintly tinged with ochreous. Fore wing white 



Fig. 101. — Habryntia scita, ^ . \. 



suffused with pale olive-green, the basal and postmedial areas 

 paler, an olive- green patch on inner area before the antemedial 

 line, the medial area deep olive-green except towards costa ; sub- 

 basal line indistinct, ohve-green, sinuous, from costa to submedian 

 fold; antemedial line almost medial, white, oblique, straight; the 



