

LEPIDOPTERA HETEEOCERA. 729 



Male. Hoary. Abdomen somewhat cinereous. Fore wings 

 irregularly speckled with black towards the base and along the 

 costa ; transverse lines black, undulating, very slight and incom- 

 plete; submarginal line zigzag ; a brownish space between it and 

 the black marginal lunules, which are much elongated ; spots with 

 incomplete black borders ; orbicular spot white, oblique, very large, 

 nearly contiguous to the reniform, which is still larger and but 

 slightly excavated on its exterior side. Hind wings cinereous ; 

 disk with a darker spot and a darker line, which are hardly visible 

 above. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



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



Apamea? insignata. 



Foem. Fusca ; abdomen cinereum ; alee anticce ceneo-fuscce, lineis 

 nigris undulatis indistinctis, orbiculari parva, reniformi albo 

 marginata ; posticce subcenece, basi ciliisque canis. 



Female. Brown. Abdomen cinereous. Fore wings aeneous- 

 brown, with the transverse lines black, undulating, indistinct; 

 orbicular spot small, very remote from the reniform ; the latter has 

 a white border, which is broadest and most distinct on the hinder 

 part. Hind wings somewhat aeneous, hoary towards the base, and 

 with hoary cilia?. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 

 lines. 



o. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Apamea remissa. 



Fcem. Cinereo-cervina ; caput et thorax nigro fasciata ; palpo- 

 rum articulus 3us lanceolaius ; ala anticce nigro conspersce, 

 lineis nigris duplicatis indistinctis, extus nigro-fusea, linea 

 submarginali angulosa cervina* orbiculari et reniformi albidis, 

 reniformi subrotunda ; postica? cinerea, margine fuscescente, 

 linea marginali nigra, ciliis albido-testaceis. 



Female. Cinereous fawn-colour. Head and thorax with black 

 bands. Third joint of the palpi lanceolate, about one-third of the 

 length of the second. Abdomen cinereous. Fore wings especially 

 speckled with black towards the costa; transverse lines black, 

 double, undulating, indistinct ; space beyond the reniform spot 

 mostly blackish brown, traversed by the zigzag fawn-coloured sub- 

 marginal line; orbicular and reniform spots mostly whitish, the 

 former smaller than the latter, which is nearly round. Hind wings 



