428 CATALOGUE OF 



Fove wings minutely black-speckled, with a black mark at the base, 

 and with four broad transverse blackish lines ; first and second 

 lines dentate and undulating ; second contiguous on its inner side 

 to a white costal patch, which is traversed by two brown lines and 

 by an intermediate luteous line ; third deeply undulating, with a 

 white spot on its outer side near the interior border; fourth mar- 

 ginal. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Orilla, West Canada. From xVIr. Bush's collection. 



Edema? obliqua. 



Mas et fcem. Carta aut cinereo-fusca ; palpi porrecti; antennae 

 maris pectinatcp, fcem. subpectinatce ; abdomen maris crista- 

 turn; ala anticce vitta obliqua obscure fusca extus diffusa, 

 annulo obliquo fusiformi pallide cinereo, annulo interiore sape 

 obsolete^ lineis duabus submarginalibus obliquis e lunulis 

 nigricantibus, margine exteriore subrecto ; postica macula 

 subtus discali obliqua, nigra. 



Male and female. Hoary or cinereous-brown. Palpi porrect, 

 extending a little beyond the head; third joint conical, not 

 more than one-sixth of the length of the second. Antennae mode- 

 rately pectinated in the male, slightly pectinated in the female. 

 Abdomen extending much beyond the hind wings, crested in the 

 male. Femora and tibiae fringed ; spurs moderately long. Fore 

 wings with a dark brown oblique stripe, which extends from the 

 base of the interior border to the tip of the wing, and is very diffuse 

 on the outer side; an oblique fusiform pale cinereous ringlet; 

 another ringlet of like shape and hue, longitudinal, nearer the base, 

 much smaller than the first and often obsolete ; two submarginal 

 oblique lines of blackish lunules ; exterior border almost straight, 

 rather oblique. Hind wings with a black oblique spot in the disk 

 beneath. Length of the body 9 — 11 lines; of the wings 22 — 26 

 lines. 



a — c. Orilla, West Canada. From Mr. Bush's collection. 

 d, e t New York. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Genus BKACHIONYCHA, C. L. H. v. 1035. 



Brachionycha atrovittata. 



Asteroscopus atrovittatus, Bremer, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pet. iii. 

 483. 



