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base; bend of fourth vein oblique, the last section perfectly straight 

 to the costa, not concave. 



Length 8.5 mm. 



Described from two females, Agricultural College, Michigan, 

 April 21, 1922 (L. G. Gentner) ; received from H. J. Reinhard. 



ry/>(?.— Female, Cat. No. 25721, U.S.N.M. 



The species resembles leucaniac but has three bristles on the outer 

 front side of the middle tibiae instead of only one. In dlvatica, of 

 which the female is unknown, the discals are larger and the front 

 more prominent and yellowish. 



Subgenus Neopales. 



PHOROCERA NOCTUIFORMIS Smith. 



Neopales noctuiformis Smith, Psyche, vol. 22, 1915, p. 267. 

 Eutritochacta carpocapsae Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. .56, 1910, 

 p. 580. 



Front of male 0.298 of the head width, the sides gray poUinose 

 with a yellowish tinge, bearing outside of the frontal bristles a row 

 of shorter ones which are sometimes weak; sides of face gray pol- 

 linose, at narrowest part less than one-third the median depression; 

 palpi yellow or brownish, facial ridges bristly one-half to three 

 fourths of the way ; bucca one-fifth the eye height ; antennae as long 

 as face, second joint very short ; the third joint six times the length 

 of second in the type; arista thickened on the basal three-sevenths, 

 the penultimate joint short. Thorax grayish, marked with five in- 

 distinct vittae; four dorsocentral macrochaetae ; scutellum black, 

 the tip yellow bearing three long and one shorter apical pair of 

 bristles. Sternopleura usually with three bristles. Abdomen black, 

 last three segments grayish pollinose on their basal two-thirds; first 

 two segments with one pair each of median marginal, third with a 

 marginal row and the fourth with macrochaetae on the apical two- 

 thirds ; abdominal hairs erect and conspicuous. Legs black, the mid 

 tibiae with two or more bristles on the outer front side near the 

 middle ; hind tibiae subciliate. Wings hyaline, apical cell open, the 

 third vein with two or three bristles at its base. 



Puparium with protruding stigmata. 



Length 6 to 8 mm. 



Paratypes at the Boston Society of Natural History, Boston, 

 Massachusetts, and at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam; 

 bridge, Massachusetts, examined by the junior author. The type 

 specimen was reared from an unknown noctuid larva taken at 

 Revere, Massachusetts; the other specimens were collected at North 

 Andover, Mass. ; Sugar Island and Orrs Island, Maine. 



Type.—Q^t. No. 19237, U.S.N.M. 



The types of Eutritochaeta carpocapsae (Cat. No. 22243). are a 

 male and a female, reared by F. L. Wellman, at Bontonville. Arkan- 



