TKIPH^MA. PRONOCTUA. 641 



Uah. Cajjada, British Columbia ; U.S.A., Kansas, Douglas Co. 

 {Snow\ 1 cJ , 1 2 . Exp. 40-44 millim. 



*1104. Triphaena inelegaiis. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 18.) 



Aqrntis inelegam, Sniitli, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 43 (1890) ; Smith, 

 ■ Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 54. 



2 . Dull blackish brown : teguloe tinged with reddish especially 

 at tips; thorax, base of patagia, and pro- and metathoracic crests 

 at tips reddish ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing with a slight 

 reddish tinge at base of costa ; the medial area slightly darker ; the 

 subbasal line double, black, distinct ; antemedial line double, blackish, 

 distinct, even, oblique, slightly excurved in interspaces ; claviform 

 faintly marked ; orbicular and reniform moderate, with slight 

 annuli of pale scales : postmedial line with double spot on costa, 

 only defined by the slight contrast between the medial and post- 

 medial areas, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then in- 

 curved ; subterminal line prominent, somewhat irregular, formed of 

 white scales and almost continuous except towards costa and inner 

 margin. Hind wing fuscous, the underside with dark irroration and 

 tinged with reddish, a discoidal spot and interrupted postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Sierra ISTevada. Exp. 31 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph from type in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



1105. Triphaena laetula. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 19.) 



J^rofe to«/«, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 83 (1876); Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 56, 

 Ehynchagrotis didnocta, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 36 (1890). 



S . Head and tegulae dark brown mixed with grey ; palpi 

 purplish red ; thorax deep purple-brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 grey-brown irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing grey-brown 

 suffused with purplish brown and strongly irrorated with black ; a 

 double black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, excurved 

 below costa, then oblicpie; an oblique double, waved, antemedial line ; 

 claviform defined by greyish ; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 grey, the former semicircular, open above, the latter moderate ; the 

 postmedial line indistinctly double, minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line 

 defined by greyish on inner side and some fuscous at costa, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish Avith 

 a brown line through them ; the underside greyer, irrorated with 

 brown, a small discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington Terr., 2 S type, Oregon, California 

 ( WaUiiKjham), 1 J . Ex^). ;38 millim. 



Genus PRONOCTUA. 



Tjpe. 



Pronocina, Smith, Traus. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 44 (1894) fi/pwa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 2nd 

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