LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 671 



Genus APAMEA, C. L. H. ix. 243. 



Apamea rubescens. 



Mas. JRvfeseens ; palpi vix ascendenles, articulo 2o nigro, So 

 minimo ; antenna subserrata, setulosce ; thorax pilosissimus ; 

 abdomen cinereum, nigro conspersum, lateribus apieeque rufes- 

 centibus ; alae anticce punctis quatuor basaiibus punclisque 

 marginalibus nigris, spatiis duobus cinereis, 2o rufo-strigato^ 

 linea antemedia rufa vix undulata, orbiculari albida magna 

 subrotunda, reniformi nigricante albido-marginata, linea sub- 

 marginali cinerea rufescente marginata ; posticce cinereae. 



Male, Eeddish. Palpi hardly ascending 1 , extending very 

 little beyond the head ; second joint pilose, mostly black ; third ex- 

 tremely short. Antennae minutely serrated and setulose. Thorax 

 thickly clothed with long hairs. Abdomen cinereous, black-speckled, 

 extending a little beyond the hind wings; sides and apical tuft 

 reddish. Fore wings with a large cinereous space towards the base 

 and another beyond the middle, the latter transversely streaked 

 with red ; some black speckles towards the base near which there 

 are four black points ; a red hardly uudulating transverse line on 

 the inner side of the large whitish nearly ronnd orbicular mark ; 

 reniform mostly blackish, whitish-bordered, narrower in front; sub- 

 marginal line cinereous, hardly zigzag, reddish bordered on the 

 inner side ; marginal points black. Hind wings dark cinereous ; 

 fringe pale cinereous, with a fawn-coloured tinge towards the base,, 

 Wings beneath cinereous, thinly black-speckled ; hind wings with 

 a black discal lunule, and with a very incomplete exterior transverse 

 black line. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



West Canada. In the Eev. Mr. Bethune's collection. 



Apamea velata. 



Mas. Cinereo-ferruginea; palpi oblique ascendentes, articulo So 

 brevissimo ; abdomen cinereum, cristis quatuor apice nigri- 

 cantibus ; ala anticai lineis duabus denticulatis nigricantibus, 

 spatio intermedio spatioque marginali fusco nebulosis, orbicu- 

 lari et reniformi albo submarginatis, venis albo punctatis, 

 linea submarginali undulata cinereo-ferruginea; posticce 

 obscure cinerea. 



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