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CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD A MONOGRAPH OF 
THE NOCTUIDA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
REVISION OF THE SPECIES OF PSEUDANARTA.* 
By Joun B. Situ. 
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 distinct in szmgula, very 
heavy in fluevdens 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, Antenne simply and finely ciliate in 
the male, entirely smooth in the female. Thorax quadrate, vestiture 
coaise, consisting of a mixture of scales and flattened hairs, forming an 
anterior divided crest, and a distinct posterior tuft. Patagize somewhat 
uplifted and well defined. Collar marked, Legs short and stout, the 
spurs of middle and hind tibize 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, in /a/ca/a 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 of Anarfa, 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., V, p. 105. The figures to this 
paper will appear in a following number. 
