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APLECTOIDES. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
chionanthi. 
speciosa. 
arctica. 
mixta. 
imperita. 
occidens. 
livalis. 
pressus. 
fates. 
'bcddeci. 
arufa. 
A. chionanthi Abb. db Sm. (Ilk). The grey forewing is dusted with a brownish black; the black 
transverse lines are single, not dentate, the posterior line describes a deep bow proximad below the reniform 
macula; the brownish-pupilled maculae are in whitish rings and surrounded with black; the irregularly dentate 
undulate line is distally bordered with whitish and is above the anal angle crossed by a long black ray; the 
veins in the marginal area are striped blackish. Hindwing white, on the veins and margin brownish. Canada, 
United States. Larva light brown, on the dorsum yellowish with black dorsal spots; it lives on Chionanthus. 
22. Genus: Aplectoides Hbn. 
This genus contains a series of relatively slender species with large and broad wings; the characteristic 
mark of distinction from the allied genera are the anterior tibiae being on the inside armed with thin, short 
spines, distally bare, or without any spines at all. Comp. Vol. Ill, p. 59. 
A. speciosa Hbn. (= perquiritata Morr., baileyana Grt.). This greyish-white larger species strewn 
with blackish-brown has been dealt with at large in the palearctic part (Vol. Ill, p. 59). It occurs in Canada 
and the Northern United States (White Mts., Adirondacks; Vermont). — The smaller and more indistinctly 
marked, darker form arctica Zett (Vol. Ill, t. 13 k) likewise flies in the northern ranges. — Besides there occurs 
in Labrador a small, light, distinctly marked form: mixta Wkr. — The larva is red with white, fine, black-edged 
dorsal and subdorsal lines and a yellow lateral stripe, and lives on species of Vaccinium and on grasses. 
A. imperita Hbn. (= comparata Mschlr., saxigena Morr., discitincta Wkr.) (11 k) is much smaller, 
darker bluish-grey, dusted with brownish, with a black basal ray, with black dentate transverse stripes bordered 
with grey, and the maculae being pupilled brownish, in the blackened cell; the undulate line is black, the hind¬ 
wing brownish-grey. From Canada (Labrador), besides in the Amur District. 
A. occidens Hmps. is violettish-grey, strewn with brown with black transverse lines, the anterior 
line proximally bordered with grey, the posterior line feebly dentate; the grey maculae are surrounded with 
black and are situate in a red-brown shade extending also below the cell; from the cell-end and undulate red- 
brown line runs to the proximal margin; the whitish, indistinct undulate line is crossed by black veins and has 
a red-brown spot before it at the costal margin. Hindwing reddish-brownish with lighter fringes. Expanse 
of wings: 34 mm. British Columbia. 
A. livalis Sm. looks like a small speciosa (Vol. Ill, t. 13 i), it is distinctly marked black and white, 
without any brown speckles, with smaller maculae which are connected with black in the lower half of the 
cell. On its white ground it is tinted olive-grey, marked like speciosa, though more contrastingly, the double 
transverse stripes filled up with white. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. New Foundland. 
A. pressus Grt. (11 k) has light brown forewings mixed with black and white, with faded ochreous 
stripes below the costal base, on the submedian and discal folds; the black, dentate, double transverse lines 
are filled up with whitish, the posterior line is only single, distally bordered with white; the large coniform 
macula is marked black, the upper maculae are large, whitish, partly strewn with ochreous, the lower half of 
the cell before and between them filled up with black; before the light undulate line small black sagittae. Hind¬ 
wing light brownish-grey, at the margin darker. Canada, North Eastern and Central States. 
A. fales Sm. resembles a dark pressus (Ilk) with extinct markings. Forewing smoky-grey with a 
slight olive tint, behind the reniform macula somewhat lighter; the transverse lines are not filled up with white, 
but with grey; the undulate line is proximally shaded with a distinct blackish colour; the large ring-macula 
is light grey, V-shaped. Hindwing smoky-grey with white fringes. Expanse of wings: 35 mm. Canada (Alberta). 
A. beddeci Hmps. is as large as the preceding, on the forewing white, in some places tinted ochreous, 
in the discal area more intensely strewn with black; transverse lines single, black, dentate; the coniform macula 
is surrounded with black and connected with the postmedian line by a black stripe, the small upper maculae are 
distinctly surrounded with black, in the centre strangulated. Undulate line marked by black sagittae. Hind¬ 
wing white, dusted with brownish, with a dark discal spot and 2 transverse lines behind it. Expanse of wings: 
36 mm. New Foundland. 
A. arufa Sm. in its exterior resembles imperita (11 k), but all the brown or reddish tints are absent, 
and the species is much more feebly marked. The ground-colour is a dull blackish grey, the markings but slightly 
darker, marked by some black scales; at the undulate line the black sagittae are absent, but the black marginal 
lunae are larger and more distinct. Hindwing smoky grey, in the basal area whitish, with a broken marginal 
line, a dark discal luna and transverse line behind it. Expanse of wings: 37 mm. Wyoming (Yellowstone Park) 
in August. 
