642 



NOCTTJID^. 



joint broadly fringed with hair in front, the Srd sliort, bhint, porrect ; frons 



smootli ; antenna^ of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 scales, the latter with very slight spreading crests on 

 fore tibia fringed with hair ; luid and hind tibiae spined 

 apex rounded, the termen somewhat crenulate ; veins 3 

 of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing wi 

 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with the termen somewhat cr 

 discal fold ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 eellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



clothed with hair and 

 pro- and metathorax ; 

 Fore wing broad, the 

 and 5 from near angle 

 th 8 to form the areole ; 

 enulate and excised at 

 from middle of disco- 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour brownish ochreous ... typica. 



B. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey pyrcypMloides. 



HOG. Pronoctiia typica. 

 Pronoctua typica. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 45, pi. iv. f. 1 (1894). 



Pale bro-wnish ochreous ; palpi and frons suffused with fuscous ; 

 thorax irrorated with fuscous, the tarsi banded with black. Fore 

 wing irrorated with black : a double, waved, subbasal line from 

 costa to vein 1, with some fuscous suffusion between it and the 

 double irregularly waved antemedial line, which is angled outwards 

 below costa ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and ochreous 

 annuli defined by blackish, the former somewhat elliptical, the latter 

 partly obscured by the medial shade, which is oblique from costa to 

 lower angle of cell, then waved, the cell between the stigmata 

 blackish ; a dentate postmedial line strongly bent outwards below 



Fig. 115. — Pronoctua typica, (^ . \. 



costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, and with traces of a line 

 beyond it ; the subterminal line ochreous, waved, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by fuscous suffusion 

 before it and fuscous suffusion on terminal area ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing ochreous tinged with pale brown ; the 

 cilia yellowish. Underside of both wings pale, with curved dark 

 postmedial line. 



Bab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Chaffee Co., 7000 ft. 

 {Bruce), 1 5 . Ea-j). -iS millim. 



1107. Pronoctua pyrophiloides. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 20.) 



Agrotis pyrophiloides, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 37 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 78. 



2 . Head and thorax pale grey-brown mixed with darker brown ; 

 palpi fuscous at sides ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 



