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PAR ASTICHTLS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
nigrior. 
cariosa. 
tor Mis. 
cristala. 
vulgaris. 
sora. 
lignicolora. 
quaesita. 
atriclava. 
antennata. 
purpurissa- 
ta. 
grotei. 
airosuffasa. 
aurantico¬ 
lor. 
P. nigrior Sm. (30 cl) has more greyish-brown forewings with a whitish costal-marginal area, similarly 
marked as the preceding, with a black basal ray and a faded black submedian stripe to the posterior transverse 
line. Maculae more distinct, in grey rings and surrounded by black; the distal transverse line is towards the 
margin bordered with whitish; in the marginal area there are long black internerval streaks. Hindwing brownish. 
United States (Maine, New York). 
P. cariosa Gn. (= idonea Grt., cluna StrecJc.) (30 cl) resembles the preceding, but it is darker, the 
black submedian stripe but very narrow and faint; between the maculae a prominent darker median shadow, 
the whitish border of the posterior transverse line is absent; the marginal black sagittae are absent , too. Hindwing 
darker blackish-brown. Canada to Arizona. 
P. tortilis Grt. seems to be very little known; according to the kind information by Benjamin who 
can also only judge from a figure of the type, the markings are entirely like those of Anytus betsia (p. 77), the 
anterior transverse line is below the cell so far distally convex that it almost touches the posterior transverse 
line, still more sharply extended into long points than in nigrior and verbascoid.es-, but the whole insect makes 
so much the impression of a species of Anytus that it presumably belongs rather to that genus. Washington. 
P. cristata Grt. (30 d) has ochre-reddish forewings, irrorated with a darker brown, with fine darker 
veins and a brown bent basal ray; transverse lines very indistinct, the posterior line with double black and 
white vein-dots, and a whitish, black-edged submedian crescent; the maculae are incompletely surrounded, 
between both 3 darker streaks in the cell; the marginal area behind the undulate line is tinted red-brown with 
blackish discal and anal shadings. Hindwing brown, before the margin and on the fringes yellowish. New 
York, Buffalo. 
P. vulgaris Grt. cb R. (30 d) is much greyer and of a duller greyish-brown, otherwise similarly marked, 
with somewhat more distinct maculae and a more distinct median shadow between them; before the whitish 
undulate line small dark sagittae. Hindwing greyish-brown. Central and Eastern States (New York to Kansas). 
P. sora Sm. (30 c) is much more variegated, the forewing bluish greyish-white, mixed with blackish- 
brown and a bright red-brown, in the postmedian area and at the apex light bluish-grey with more distinct 
transverse lines which are connected by a black prolongation of the coniform macula; the maculae are 
larger and more distinct, the terminal area behind the undulate line is brown except the light apex. Hindwing 
brown with yellowish-white fringe; British Columbia. 
P. lignicolora Gn. (30 e). Forewing reddish ochreous, in the costal-marginal and distal-marginal areas 
of a brighter red-brown with fine black veins; the crenulate transverse lines are not very distinct, at the costal 
margin double, the distal line with double vein-dots behind it, the maculae are neither very distinct, the reniform 
macula is proximally produced; before the brown-edged undulate line there are blackish sagittae, behind it 
the marginal area except the apex is darkened. Hindwing brown, towards the base lighter. -— The form quaesita 
Grt. is much greyer, irrorated with purple brown, without ochreous tints, with darker markings and blackish- 
brown hindwings. — atriclava B. d ■ McD. (30 e) is a much more monotonously ochre-brown western race without 
the bright contrasts, and chiefly discernible by the coniform macula being sharply surrounded by blackish- 
brown and being absent in the eastern type. Vancouver. — The other forms fly from Canada to Illinois and 
California. 
P. antennata Sm. (30 e) is very similar, more blackish-brownish, postmedianly lighter and strewn 
with whitish, the transverse lines are submedianly connected. California. -— The form purpurissata B. <£• McD. 
(30 g) is of a much deeper purple brown tinge. Vancouver. 
P. grotei B. d- McD. (= auranticolor auct. nec Grt.) (30 e) is very closely allied to the genuine 
auranticolor and has often been confounded; Hampson’s figure designated as auranticolora *) also refers to 
it. The present species has more stretched wings and is more slender, of a less bright ochre-reddish and more 
monotonous, not so variegated, with a more dentate anterior transverse line, the postmedian line on the discal 
fold distally concave, above the anal angle with a dark nebulous patch. Colorado, Arizona. 
P. atrosuffusa B. d• McD. (30 f) is marked very much like grotei, but characterized by the deep 
purple blackish irroration except the basal area, round the maculae, and in the terminal area except the two 
folds; before the dentate undulate line with a distinct W, as far as the distal margin there are black sagittae. 
It is possible that this species may coincide with Hampson’s ab. 1. of his auranticolora. in which case the synonym : 
washingtoniensis Strd. would have to be added. Arizona, Colorado, and (doubtfully) Washington. 
P. auranticolor Grt. (30 f) is closely allied to grotei ; it has shorter, squatter wings of a brighter ochreous 
colour irrorated with a variegated red-brown, with a less strongly dentate anterior transverse line, and the 
postmedian line being convex or at least straight, proximally distinctly bordered with black; the dark anal 
shadow in the marginal area is absent. Colorado, California. 
*) Catalogue Lep. Pkalaen. Vol. VII, pi. CIX, fig. 30. 
