NO. 1140. NORTE AMERICAN NOCTUIDAE— SMITH AXD DYAB. 155 



Transverse anterior line geminate, slightly outcurved as a whole, and a 

 little outcurved between the veins. The median shade line is distinct 

 in most of the specimens and almost upright, crossing the wing near 

 its middle, and a little bent outwardly on the median vein. Beyond it 

 the median space is usually darker than toward the base. Transverse 

 posterior line geminate, the inner line vague, the included space a little 

 paler; the outer line more or less lunulated, often broken entirely, a 

 little sinuate, and nearly parallel with the outer margin. There is a 

 broken, pale subterminal line, beyond which the terminal space is 

 shaded with smoky spots which do not reach the outer margin. There 

 is a broken terminal line, and the fringes are cut with smoky. There 

 are no streaks or dashes. Tiie ordinary spots are distinct, darker, and 

 rather contrasting. The orbicular is smaller, moderate, black-ringed; 

 the reniform is large, kidney-shaped, incompletely outlined, but dusky 

 filled. The secondaries are white in the male; outwardly a little soiled 

 in the female. Beneath whitish, more or less powdered, the seconda- 

 ries sometimes with a discal spot and traces of an outer line. 



Expanse, 1.20 to 1.40 inches (30 to 35 mm.). 



H(ihit((t. — Canada to District of Columbia; west to Illinois; Missouri; 

 Colorado ( ?) ; Massachusetts in May and rlune; central New York, May 

 and June; Illinois in May. 



In my catalogue I have recorded the species from the Northern 

 States, May to August; but the specimens now before me do not show 

 so great a range. 



Tlie species is quite easily recognizable by the pale, dirty gray pri- 

 maries, in which all the markings are obscure, and only the ordinary 

 spots stand out in dusky relief, contrasting with the clear white second- 

 aries of the male, which are only a little soiled in the female. The front 

 of the head is flat, th'C palpi reaching scarcely to the middle of the front. 

 The anterior leg of the male has the femur rather dilated at middle, 

 abruptly narrowed to the tip. The tibia is stout and proportionately 

 rather short, while the tarsi are loug and slender. The epiphysis is 

 situated at the middle of the tibia or a little above, and does not extend 

 to the tip. 



The only variation that occurs in the species, so far as it is repre- 

 sented in the specimens before me, is that sometimes the wing beyond 

 the median shade is darker than it is toward the base, and sometimes 

 there is no apparent difference. The harpes of the male are broad and 

 rather short, a little acutely rounded at the tip. The clasper has the 

 inferior process almost as long as the superior. The superior process is 

 rather stout, reaching nearly to the tip of the harpes, and only a little 

 curved ; the inferior process is almost as long, acute at the tip, and a 

 little curved. 



LARVA. 



Packard, Fiftli Kept. U. S. Comm., 1890, p. 628 (Apaiela sp.). 

 Stage VII. — Head slightly bilobed, shining red brown, the sidepieces 

 of clypeus yellowish; width, 2.8 mm. Body slightly enlarged at joint 



