LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 339 



indeterminata, strigis intermediis transversis fuscis ; posticce 

 fuscce, fimbria cinerea. 



Female. Whitish, dingy cinereous beneath. Palpi povrect, 

 rather shorter than the breadth of the head ; second joint slightly 

 fringed; third extremely short. Fore wings acute, shining, with 

 three brown oblique slightly undulating bands, and with a few inter- 

 mediate transverse brown streaks; firsthand abbreviated in front ; 

 third incomplete; costa almost straight; exterior border slightly 

 convex and oblique. Hind wings brown ; fringe cinereous. Length 

 of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



a. St. Martin's Falls, Albany Kiver, Hudson's Bay. Presented by 

 Dr. Barnston. 



35. SCIAPHILA? UESTITUTANA. 



Mas. Obscure cinerea ; fasciculus frontalis productus ; palpi an- 

 gulati, articulo So lanceolato de.jle.xo; alee anticce fasciis 

 tribus indeterminatis e atomis nigricantibus ; posticus fusees- 

 cenle- cinerea. 



Male. Dark cinereous, dingy cinereous beneath. Frontal 

 tuft prominent. Palpi shorter than the breadth of the head ; second 

 joint pilose ; third lanceolate, decumbent, less than half the length 

 of the second, with which it forms an angle. Abdomen extending 

 much beyond the hind wings. Fore wings acute, with blackish 

 transverse speckles, some of which are confluent, and form three 

 very irregular bauds; costa and exterior border straight, the latter 

 moderately oblique. Hind win^s brownish cinereous. Length of 

 the body 3 lines; of the wings 6^ lines. 



a. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay. Presented by 

 Dr. Barnston. 



36. SciAPHILA PUXCTICOSTANA. 



Mas et fcem. Fusca, subtus cinerea; alee anticce apice rotundatce, 

 striyulis transversis nigris, lineis transversis guttularibus ar- 

 genteis, fasciis tribus, macula postica maculaque apicali fuscis, 

 punctis costalibus et marginalibus nigris; posticce pallide 

 cinerea?. 



Male and female. Brown, cinereous beneath. Palpi porrect, 

 much shorter than the breadth of the head ; second joint thickly 

 fringed; third extremely short. Antennae of the male minutely 



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