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NOCTUID^. 



Genus GROTELLA. 

 Grotdla, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 278 (1874). 



Type. 

 scptempitndata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, the 2nd joint upturned and 

 moderately scaled, the 3rd porrect, naked ; frons with large hollowed-out 

 process with corneous walls, and with obliquely truncate central process 

 hollowed out in front ; eyes smooth, not ciliated ; antenna' simple, laminate in 

 both sexes ; fore tibia^ with long curved claw, and two slender spines on inner 

 side at extremity and short claw on outer side ; mid tibia strongly spined ; 

 hind tibias with slight spine between the medial and terminal spurs ; abdomen 

 and wings smoothly scaled. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 

 5 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; i) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 free. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 



A. Fore wing with aute- and postmedial series of small 



black spots »cptempunctata. 



B. Fore wing wholly white dis. 



152. Grotella septempuiictata. 



Grotella sepfempunctafa, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 278 (1874); 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 26li. 



Head and thorax pure white ; palpi and frons black-brown : 

 antenuie j'ellow ; tibia3 and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 brown, tinged with yellowish white. Fore wing almost pure white; 

 the costal edge black towards base ; subbasal black points below 

 costa and cell ; small antemedial black spots on costa, in sttbmedian 

 fold, and on inner margin, the spot in the fold slightly nearer the 



Fig. 31. — Grotella scptempunclata, cS . ]. 



base ; small jjostmedial black spots on costa, discocellulars, in sub- 

 median fold and on inner margin. Hiud wing white, the apical 

 area to the discocellulars and vein 3 tinged with fuscous brown. 

 Underside of fore wing, except the inner area and cilia, and the 

 costal area of hind wing fuscous brown. 



Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 S type, Colorado (SmitJi), 1 $ , Manitou 

 (Brool-), 1 $ . E.V2). 30 millim. 



153. Grotella dis. (Plate LYII. fig. 10.) 



Us, Grote, A. M. N. H. (.3) si. p. Tw (1883) ; Smitl 

 p. 266. 



5. Head and thorax white; antenntr ochreous ; pectus, legs. 



Grotella dis, Grote, A. M. N. H. (.">) si. p. i^o (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 266. 



