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TORNOS Morrison. Plate 2, fig. 4. 



Tornos Mow.. Proo. Host. Soo. Nat. Hist., wii, ->\7, L875. 



Ill tliis singular genus, the win<. r s arc so long and narrow 1 hat it might, on 

 casual inspection, be mistaken for a Noctuid. The male antenna! are, however, 

 heavily pectinated, exactly as in Aspilates; the head is moderately broad in 

 front. The palpi are large, broad, and stout at the end, not slender and acute 

 as in Aspilates. Fore wings long and narrow, costa very straight, apex 

 subrectangular; outer edge not very oblique, much shorter than usual com- 

 pared with the length of the inner edge. Hind wings much produced toward 

 the apex, not- extending beyond the end of the abdomen, and sometimes not 

 so far as the tip. Venation: there is no subcostal cell, and but five subcostal 

 venules, two only being thrown off to the costa, where three are in Aspilates. 

 Independent vein near the last subcostal, as in Aspilates; but three median 

 venules, as in all Phalanidce, there being as a rule (indeed, 1 know of no excep- 

 tion) four in the Noctuidm. Abdomen as usual in Aspilates; male bind legs, 

 with the tibia.-, a little swollen, and the tarsi nearly as long as the tibiae. 



This aberrant genus differs from Aspilates mainly in the broad, thick 

 palpi, the long, narrow wings, and the want of a subcostal cell, and in having 

 but five subcostal venules, six being the usual number. This genus was 

 placed among the Noctuidai by Mr. H. K. Morrison. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



Ofteu light ; outer edge short T. rubiginosaria. 



Dark; outer edge of fore wing longer in proportion than in rubiginosaria T. approximaria, 



Tornos rubiginosaria Morrison. Plate 9, fig. 39. 



Tornos rubiginosus Morr., Proc. Best. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 218, 1875. 



7 J and 5 9. — Wings long and narrow; outer edge short. Antenna: 

 well pectinated. Body and wings usually cream-colored, chocolate-brown, 

 sometimes brown. Fore wings with a much curved, irregular, basal, dark hair- 

 line (often obsolete, and only represented by a square, dark, costal dot). The 

 discal dot is composed of long, raised, blackish scales, forming a large, conspicu- 

 ous tuft. Through the discal spot runs a dusky band, curved outward just 

 below the costa (often obsolete, and represented only by a broad costal dot, 

 situated within the discal spot). An outer, curved, sinuous, dark line, more 

 distinct than the others, and making a great curve outward, opposite the dis- 



