240 NOCTIJIDiE. 



series of curved claws on 1st joint, the first two having others above 

 them, and claws at end of next two joints ; abdomen brownish 

 ochreous with dark irroration. Fore wing -brownish white with an 

 ochreous tinge and dark irroration ; the silbbasal line represented 

 by indistinct double stria? from costa and ceil ; anteraedial line 

 indistinct, strongly excurved below cell and above inner margin and 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, defined bj- blackish ; 

 orbicnlar and reniform with brown centres and white annuli defined 

 by blackish, the former oblique oblong or elliptical, open above, the 

 latter with its outer edge angled, its lower angle produced inwards 

 to a streak on median nervure ; postmedial line indistinct, dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; sub- 

 terminal line white, defined on inner side by dark brown dentate 

 marks and on outer side by dark marks, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area brown ; 

 cilia white ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a small discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and diffused 

 subterminal band. 



Jlab. U.S.A., Colorado {Bruce), 2 ? . Exp. 40 millim. 



14G5. Triclioclea sociabilis. 



Mamestra sociabilis, Grasl. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1850, p. 412, pi. 10. f. 13; 

 Ilerr.-Scbaf!', Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 503 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 158. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and black ; tegulae 

 with medial black liue ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen grey 

 irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey suffused and irrorated with 

 brown ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double, waved, indistinct except at costa ; claviform 

 rather small, defined by black; orbicular and reniform with grey 

 annuli defined by black, the former small, round, the latter filled in 

 with fuscous ; an indistinct curved waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line dentate and produced to white points on the veins, double at 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white, with 

 small dentate black marks before it except towards costa, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the 

 veins and terminal area brown ; the underside with the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and diffused 

 subterminal band. 



The claws on fore tarsi small, longer towards extremities of joints. 



Hah. S.W. France, 1 $ , Zeller Coll. Eay. 32 millim. 



1466. Trichoclea decepta. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 27.) 



Trichoclea decepta, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 30 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 209. 

 Perigea paupera, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Hct. i. p. 279 (part.), nee Wlk. 



Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi with black patch at 



