374 NOCTUID^. 



6'^. Fore wing with the gronnd-colour grey. 

 d^. Fore wing not tinged with olive-green. 



a^. Fore wing with the orbicular large, elongate usiislriga, 



P. Fore wing with the orbicular small, round lithias. 



b'^. Fore wing tinged with olive-green homoscia. 



1680. Morrisonia evicta. 



Cloantha evicta, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 84, pi. 2. f. 18 (1873) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 232. 

 Cloantha vomerina, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 84, pi. 2. f. 17 



(1873). 



Head and thorax white slightly mixed with brown ; palpi dark 

 brown at sides ; frons with black bar ; tegulaj with black medial 

 line and brown tips ; thorax dark brown mixed with grey; abdomen 

 ochreous white mixed with dark brown, the anal tuft with a purplish 

 tinge. Pore wing dark reddish brown suifused with white, especially 

 on base of costal area, some ochreous in cell and base of submedian 

 fold ; the veins streaked with black ; a black streak in base of sub- 

 median fold ; the subbasal line represented by double oblitjue striae 

 from costa ; the antemedial line by a striga from costa, then inter- 

 rupted, strongly angled outwards above vein 1 and inner margin and 



Fig. 99. — Morrismiia evicta, cT. \. 



slightly defined by white ; orbicular and reniform ochreous with 

 whitish annuli and defined by black above and below, the former 

 produced as an ill-defined streak in cell towards base and with a 

 prominent black streak below it, the latter angled inwards on median 

 nervure and confluent with the former ; postmedial line obsolescent, 

 dentate^ produced to white points on the veins, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line only 

 defined by the area beyond it being dark brown with blackish 

 streaks in the interspaces, running obliquely to apex ;■ vein 4 at ex- 

 tremity and vein 3 strongly defined by white streaks ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules. Hind wing whitish tinged with 

 brow-n, the terminal half strongly suifused with brown ; the under- 

 side whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a 

 black discoidal spot and curved postmedian line. 



Ab. 1. vomerina. Fore wing A^ith the costal half whitish and 

 strongly contrasting with the inner half which is blackish. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., New York, (i J ,2 5 ^ type and type vomerina^ 

 isTew Jersey, Illinois^ E.vp. 36 millim. 



