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CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD A MONOGRAPH OF 

 THE NOCTUIDiE OF NORTH AMERICA. 



REVISION OF THE SPECIES OF PSEUDANARTA. 



By John B. Smith. 



Genus PSEUDANARTA Hy. Edw. 



Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., vol. 6, p. 133, 1875. 



Plump, rather robust species of small or medium size. Eyes naked 

 with a distinct fringe of hair' or "lashed'' — less distmct in singula, very 

 heavy in flavidens and obvious in flava. The head is small, closely 

 applied to the thorax but scarcely sunken. Eyes small, prominent, 

 round. Frontal vestiture scaly, divergent, forming superimposed tufts. 

 Palpi distinct, somewhat divergent, moderate in size, the vestiture rather 

 loose. Tongue long and strong. Antennae simply and finely ciliate in 

 the rnale, entirely smooth in the female. Thorax quadrate, vestiture 

 coarse, consisting of a mixture of scales and flattened hairs, forming an 

 anterior divided crest, and a distinct posterior tuft. Patagiae somewhat 

 uplifted and well defined. Collar marked. Legs short and stout, the 

 spurs of middle and hind tibiae moderate or rather short, else unarmed ; 

 rather densely clothed with long and fine hair. Abdomen somewhat 

 exceeding secondaries, conic, with a row of small, truncate dorsal tufts, 

 and in the male a series of small lateral tufts. Wings proportionate ; 

 primaries trigonate, \x\falcata the apices somewhat marked, outer margin 

 bulging medially — in the other species the apices rectangular or some- 

 what more defined, the outer margin even and rounded obliquely ; the 

 fringes are very slightly nicked. Secondaries proportionate, the outer 

 margins even. The coloration of the secondaries is peculiar to the 

 genus — they are yellow, with distinct black outer border, mimicing some 

 species o{ Atinrta, which indeed they somewhat resemble in habitus. 



The genitalia of the two species examined are not particularly alike 

 and will be especially described with the species. 



The genus is scarcely a well defined one, and the species were 

 mostly described as Hadena. Mr. Edwards based his genus on the 

 habitus and color, and Mr. Grote adopts it as a rather doubtful division 

 of Hadena. The distinctly lashed eyes form perhaps the most distinguish- 

 ing feature of the genus. The yellow secondaries form a very good 

 superficial distinctive charater. 



* For introduction to this series see Ento. Amer., N , p. 105. The figures to this 

 paper will appear in a following number. 



