218 



NOCXUIDj;. 



(letinccl by blackish ; orbicular and reniform large, rather indistinctly 

 defined by blackish, the former round "wil h darkish centre : post- 

 medial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line white, with series of 

 dentate fuscous marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a dark terminal line ; cilia intersected with 

 white. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous ; cilia pure white ; the underside with the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal lunule and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary {Wolley-Dod), 1 S ; U.S.A. 

 Montana, Boulder, "Wyoming, Yellowstone Park. Exp. 34 millim. 



Sect. II. {'Tholera). Antennae of male with very short branches, the apex 

 serrate. 



1436. Tholera cespitis. 



Nochia cespitis, ^chi&. Wien. Verz. p. 82 (1776); Hiibn. Samml. Eur. 



Schniett., Noct. f. 428 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 26, pi. 102. f. 1 ; Steph. 



111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 109 ; Schultz, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1901, p. 15 



(ab. 2) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 155. 

 I^'odua hordei, Sehrank, Faun. Boica, ii. 1, p. 351 (1802). 

 Acjrotis autumnalis, Curt. Brit. Ent. p. I(i5 (1825;. 

 Charaas conjinis, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 109 (1827). 

 Apamea chloris, Mill. Ann. See. Linn. Lyon, 1883, p. 172, pi. 4. ff. 1, 2. 

 ^euronia ferruginea, Kofni. Soe. Ent. ii. p. 121 (1887). 

 Neuronia decolor, Sobn, Soc. Ent. xi. p. 115 (1896). 



Head and thorax black-brown with some red-brown scales ; 

 abdomen brown with a greyish tinge. Fore wing reddish brown 



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Fig. 32. — Tholera cespitis, ^J. \. 



suffused with black and irrorated with a few ochreous scales ; 

 subbasal line waved, black, defined by pale rufous on outer side, 

 from costa to submcdian fold ; antemedial line black, defined by 

 palo rufous on inner side, slightly angled outwards below costa and 

 cell and above inner margin ; claviform rather small, defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and ochreous 

 annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter slightly 

 angled inwards on median ncrvure ; postmedial line black, defiued 

 by pale rufous on outer side, dentate and produced to points on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, theu incurved, 

 some pale points beyond it on costa ; faubtcrminal line ochreous 



