:?0i> 



NOCTUID.E. 



ochreous irrorated and suffused with brown especially on the veins, 

 tlie cilia paler; the underside irrorated with brown except the cell 

 and inner area. 



Fig. 12"). — Utipocceua rafodi-iga, ^ . \. 



Jfah. Iabrador, Caribou I.; Can'ada. Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1 ^J , 

 Alberta, Calgary {\VoIlei/-Dod), S d" , Ked Deer 11. {W oUerj-Do(f), 

 1 c?; U.S.A., 1 c^, Colorado. E^iy. '28-32 raillira. 



Genus MICROLITA, nov. 



Type, M. Icucorhabda. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely uptnrned, the 2nd joint 

 moderately fringed with hair, tlie 3rd short; froii.s with pointed conii-al 

 prominence; eyes large, round; antennjc of female eihated ; tliorax clothed 

 almost entirely with scales and witiiout crests; build slight; tibia' slightly 

 fringed witli hair; abdomen wiriiout crests. Fore wing witli tlie apex 

 somewliat produced, the terinen obliquely curved and not crenulate; veins 3 

 and .") from near angle of cell; 6 from upper aTigli^ ; 9 from !(► anastomosing 

 witli 8 to form a small areole; 11 from cell Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and 

 (i. 7 strongly stalked ; o obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell to middle. 



*47in. Microlita leucorhabda. 



Boryodes leucorhabda, Y). Jones, Trans. Knt. Soc. 1908, p. 1G5. 



5 . Head white ; palpi, sides of frons, and antenna? fuscous 

 brown ; thorax ochreous yellow with a few brown scales ; legs 

 tinged with fuscous ; abdomen ochreous white tinged with fuscous. 

 Fore wing ochreous yellow slightly irrorated with black ; a slight 



Fig. 12(). — Mir.rolita leucorhabda, ^. \. 



white streak in submedian fold from base to tcrraon ; a white 

 fascia in lower ])art of cell with less well-defined oblique white 

 fascia from it to apex; a subbasal black point below the cell; 

 antemedial line almost obsolete exce|)t in submedian interspace 

 where it is excurved, oblique toAvards costa and slightly angled 



