NO. 1140. NOUTH AMERICAN NOCTUIDAE— SMITH AND DYAR. 37 



IJluish white, the dark shading along inner margin is black, sharply defined, 

 and extends upward so as to form a tooth on the transverse anterior 



line funeralis. 



15. A dark longitudinal shade extends through the middle of the primaries 16. 



Primaries without such a dusky central shade 17. 



IG. Smaller, smoky gray, a little suffused with luteons in the cell ; not mottled or 



marbled connecfa. 



Larger, ashen gray, a transverse as well as longitudinal dark shade giving the 



]irimaries a marbled or mottled appearance siiperuns. 



17. Very dark, powdery ash-gray; none of the dashes well marked; all the lines 

 geminate, but obscure; secondaries smoky yellow, darker in the 



female hnnnosa. 



Paler ash-gray; at least the basal dash well marked. 



The da.shes neatly defined; that opposite anal angle not diffuse., .spinirjera. 

 The dashes diffuse; that opposite anal angle thick and not sharply defined. 



pruni. 



Group PERSUASA. 



Almost entirely black; the orbicular white, round, contrasting, with a central dot; 



all other maculation obscured afflicta. 



Very dark ash-gray, mottled with black; all the maculation traceable, but, except 



the orbicular, not contrasting jjerswasa. 



Dark ashy gray, more evenly washed with smoky; the black shadings tending to 



become strigate Uturata. 



Ground color bluish white; all the markings black, so that the primaries appear 



marbled marmorata. 



Group HAMAMELIS. 



Dagger mark opposite anal angle usually distinct, always traceable. 



Secondaries of male white; ground color of primaries even, dark blue-gray, 

 ordinary spots shaded with reddish ; vestiture scarcely roughened, even of 



the ornamentation alharufa. 



Secondaries smoky in both sexes. 



Yellowish gray, the reniform yellow shaded; basal dash distinct, black, con- 

 necting with an inward angulation of the transverse anterior line, which 

 is broadly black marked and so formed a.s to include an ovate basal space 



above the streak ovala. 



Essentially with markings as before, but the basal dash is linear or scarcely 

 traceable and the transverse anterior line is not black marked; size 



smaller modica. 



TJjiiformily ash-gray, the geminate transverse anterioi' line evenly oblique, 

 and the dagger mark opposite anal angle tending to disappear in the 



male clarescens. 



No dagger mark opposite anal angle; at most a diffused shading that suggests its 

 presence. 

 Expands more than 1.25 inches; ground color varies from ashen gray to blackish 

 smoky; the markings either distinct and contrasting or barely tiace- 



able ha)iiamell8. 



Smaller and of a much more evenly dark ground color; docs not exceed and 



rarely reaches 1 .25 inches in expanse increfti. 



Size as before, but ground color of a pale, whitish gray retardata. 



