NO. 1283. REVISION OF SOME NOCTUID MOTHS— SMITH. 173 



all others in the series. The streak margining- the pale median vein 

 is black, there are black streaks along the inner margin and outwardly, 

 and the streakings between the veins tend to become black. The 

 sexual tuftings tend to become discolored, and the harpes of the 

 genitalia are densel}^ clothed on the outside with long yellow hair 

 intermixed with broadly flattened scales. This prominent mass of 

 vestiture can be somewhat expanded, but seems to form no real tufts 

 or brushes of hair. There is at least one pair of longer pencils 

 between the claspers at the base of the uncus, and these are probably 

 capable of fan-like expansion. The species occurs throughout the 

 eastern United States and Canada to New Mexico. 



Phragmatidicola is altogether different in appearance and varies 

 much more. It has a wide distribution and the variations are some- 

 what local. The primaries are narrower, more trigonate, and the 

 apices more pointed than before. The ground color is pale luteous 

 and the streakings are reddish between the light or dark veins. The 

 dusky shading over the median vein may be smoky or blackish, and as 

 a rule both sides of the vein are margined. The series of punctiform 

 spots marking the transverse posterior line is usuall}^ complete though 

 never very prominent, and there is usually a lighter shade through the 

 cell and obliquely to the apex. 



The sexual tuftings are very much as in commoides but less discol- 

 ored and somewhat less prominent. The secondaries are white, tend- 

 ing to become a little smoky on the veins and outwardly. The species 

 occurs from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to Florida. 



In all the other species of this series the outer spur on the middle 

 tibia of the male is cylindrical, straight, pointed at the tip and either 

 short or very short. 



Imj^erfecta stands by itself because of its dark smoky gray color, 

 which is neither powdery nor obviously strigate. It has somewhat 

 the appearance of an undersized, dark iini-pimcta with the powderings 

 out, and this is emphasized by the fact that the black or blackish 

 longitudinal shading covers the median vein almost to the end of the 

 cell; leaving onl}^ a short, white, angular spur to emphasize the 

 usual black point. The secondaries are whitish, with a tendenc}^ to 

 smoky margins. The sexual tuftings are not prominent and the 

 antennal ciliations are small, not longer toward the tip. 



The species has been thus far received from Arizona only. 



Anterodara resembles lyhragmatidicola in appearance very closely. 

 With males for comparison there can be no difficulty, of course; but 

 there is a real difference in superficial characters, though it is difficult 

 to locate in one word. As a whole, the species is a little larger, a lit- 

 tle broader winged, with somewhat less pointed primaries. It is more 

 yellow in color, less streaky in appearance, the black dot at the end 

 of the median vein often wanting, never prominent, transverse pos- 



