440 



NOCTCTD-E. 



rufous terminal line ; abdomen red-brown with slight dark irrora- 

 tion, the base greyish, the ventral surface and legs brighter rufous. 

 Fore wing red-brown suti'used with purplish grey and irrorated with 

 black ; suhbasal line represented by a slight blackish striga from 

 costa with a jioint beyond it in cell ; antemedial line blackish 

 slightly defined by grey on inner side, very oblique and slightly 

 excurved below costa and at vein 1 ; claviform absent ; orbicular 

 and reniform large with pale grey aunuli, the former round, the 

 latter elliptical ; postmedial line pale grey with black points on its 

 inner edge, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, pale with slight dark suffusion on inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it 

 somewhat paler ; a terminal series of brown lunules. Hitid wing 

 red-brown, the base slightly paler, the terminal area rather darker ; 

 cilia rufous, whitish at tijjs ; the underside pale tinged with pink 

 and irrorated with brown, a small discoida] spot and slightly sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 1 $ type. Exp. 42 millim. 



Larva. Djai-, Proc. Eut. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 324 (1899). 



Head bilobed, broader than high, shining brown with broad 

 dark brown curved vertical band and distinct reticulations. Body 

 greenish thickly mottled with brown ; dorsal line narrow, white ; 

 substigmatal line broad, filled with red mottlings ; cervical shield 

 brown, not polished, slightly darker than body, cut by white dorsal and 

 subdorsal lines ; anal plate concolorous with body ; spiracles white 

 ■with black rims. Food-plants : Oak and Wild Cherry. — H. G. D. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



2647. Psectraglaea pilifera. 

 Agrostis pUifera, Wlk. x. 343 (1856). 



6 . Head and thorax deep reddish brown ; abdomen rather 

 greyer brown, the hair on claspers rufous. Fore wing dark reddish 



Fig. I'ib.—rsccfrarilcea pilifera, fj. }. 



brown, the costal area uniformly tinged witn blackish; the sub- 

 basal, ante- and postmedial lines, claviform and orbicular obsolete, 

 the reniform represented by a faint dark mark; subterminal line' 

 very indistinct, brown, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards in 

 discal fold: a terminal series of slight black points. Hiud wing 

 ochreoua thic kly irrorated and the terminal area suffused with dark 



