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wing ochreous whitish irrorated with brown ; a black streak below 

 basal half of cell ; antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved ; 

 orbicular and reniform incompletely defined by brown, the former 

 elongate elliptical ; traces of a carved medial shade ; postmedial 

 line very indistinct, produced to short streaks on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line pale, defined by rich brown on inner side, the area 

 beyond it fuscous, arising from apex and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing semihyaline 

 white, with fine brown terminal line except towards tornus ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown and with some 

 dark terminal points. 



Hah. Br. E. Afkica, Machakos {Grawsliay), 1 $ type. Exp. 36 

 millim. 



1157. Scotogramma ptilodonta. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 5.) 



TrichopoUa ptilodonta, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 77 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 164. 



c? . Head and thorax brownish grey mixed with fuscous, tarsi 

 banded with fuscous ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing pale 

 brownish ochreous, thickly irrorated with brown and fuscous,; a 

 black streak below base of cell : subbasal line represented by two 

 black strife from costa; antemedial line represented by two black 

 striae from costa, then verj^ indistinct, oblique, waved ; clavifofm 

 large, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by 

 black, the former oblique elliptical, the latter with some fuscous 

 in its lower part ; faint traces of a medial line with more distinct 

 striga at costa ; postmedial line indistinct, double, with prominent 

 dark striae from costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and 

 produced to black and white streaks on the veins, incurved at 

 discal fold and strongly below vein 4 ; subterminal line very 

 indistinct, pale, waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle, defined on inner side by some dark dentate marks most 

 prominent at discal fold, the area beyond it suflused with fuscous ; 

 a terminal series of black points ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing pure white, with some black striae on termen ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas sparsely irrorated with 

 black, a small discoidal spot, and postmedial series of short black 

 streaks on the veins. 



Hab. U.S.A.., Arizona, Phoenix, 1 S • Exp. 34 millim. 



1158. Scotogramma trifolii. 



Noctua frifulii, Eott. Naturf. ix. p. 131 (1776) ; Hiiipsn. Moths Iiid. ii. 



p. 198;*Staucl. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 158; Smitb.Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 119. 

 Noctiia chcnopodii, Schifl. Wien. Verz. p. 82 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. 



p. 156 (1787) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 181 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. 



f. 86; Dup. Lep. Fr. tH. p. 31, pi. 102. f . 3 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. ii. p. 1*05. 

 Nodua vcrna, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 117 a. ff. 5, 6 (\1S&). 



