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and tarsi banded with reddish ochreous ; abdomen with some lateral 

 points and the extremity orange-red. Fore wing black ; large sub- 

 basal ochreous-white patches on costal and inner areas ; an ante- 

 medial band slightly constricted below costa and strongly below the 

 cell; a medial irregular wedge-shaped patch from costa to median 

 nervure and bar from submedian fold to above inner margin ; u 

 postmedial band excurved beyond lower angle of cell, then narrow 



Fig. 134.— P^ 



and incurved ; a subterminal band bent outwards nearly to termen 

 above vein 5, then incurved and conjoined to the postmedial band, 

 angled inwards in submedian fold and ending at tornus ; cilia 

 whitish. Hind wing orange-red ; the basal area black, its outer 

 edge irregularly dentate, oblique and ending on termen above vein 

 1 a ; a black discoidal lunule ; subterminal black spots on veins 5 

 and 2, and terminal spots at middle and on vein 1 h. 



Hah. Canada, Rocky-Mountain region to Hudson's Bay ; Van- 

 couver ; U.S.A., Wyoming, Arizona. Eoop. 46 millim. 



Larva. Black, the hair of posterior segments longer and tipped 

 with white. 



Sect. III. {Phragmatohia). AntennjB of male ciliated, 



A. Fore wing thinly scaled, not irrorated with fuscous fuliginosa. 



B. Fore wing thickly scaled and thickly irrorated with 



fuscous assimilans. 



1672. Phragmatohia fuliginosa. 



Noctua fuliginosa, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 509 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. ir. 



p. 56, pi. 8B. ff. 1-5 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. ii. f. 143 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. iy. 



p. 351, pi. 36. f. 4 ; Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 74 ; Scaud. Cat. 



p. 59 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 244. 

 Arctia ruhricosa, Harr. Ins. Mass. p. 253 (1841) ; Xirby, Cat. Het. p. 2i5. 

 Spilosoma fuliginosa, var. horealis, Staud. Cat. p. 59 (1871). 

 Spilosoina fuliginosa, var. fervida, Staud. Cat. p. 59 (1871); Mill. Lepido- 



pterologie, vi. p. 4, pi. 8. f. 6. 

 Spilosoma fuliginosa, var. subnigra. Mill. Lepidopterologie, vi. p. 4, pi. 8. 



f. 7 (1881) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 245. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown ; palpi crimson at base ; shaft of 

 antennae whitish ; legs blackish, fringed with red-brown hair, the 

 femora crimson above ; abdomen crimson above, with series cf short 

 dorsal black bands and lateral series of spots, the ventral surface 



