396 NOCTUIDJE. 



irrorated with black ; orbicular with brown centre and white 

 annulus defined b)' black, roLind ; reniform with white annulus 

 incompletely defined by black, open above, its centre defined by 

 brown and its lower part filled in with brown, constricted at middle, 

 some white sufiusion above it on costa ; postmedial line blackish 

 towards costa, then only defined by the contrast between the brown 

 and white areas, bent outwards below costa, sHghtly incurved at 

 discal fold and strongly below vein 4, a wedge-shaped blackish 

 patch beyond it from costa with some white points on costa ; a 

 small subtermiual blackish lunule below vein 4 ; a terminal grey- 

 brown band with waved inner edge ; a terminal series of blackish 

 strise defined on inner side by slight white luuules ; cilia white, 

 greyish at base and tips. Hind wing white slightly tinged with 

 brown except towards base ; a faint curved white postmedial band ; 

 a terminal brown line except towards tornus ; cilia white faintly 

 tinged with brown at base ; the underside white. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Colorado, California, Arizona, 1 ^ , 

 1 5 , Jerome (Oslcu-), 3 d , 1 § . Ex2). 20-32 millim. 



Genus PSEUDINODES, nov. 



Type, P. prodncia. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi porrect, very short and not reaching nearly 

 to end of frons which has a large rounded prominence with trilobate corneous 

 plate at middle and plate below it; eyes large, round; antenuJE of male 

 bi])ectinate with short branches, the apex serrate ; thorax clothed entirely with 

 scales and without crests ; mid and hind tibia; fringed with long hair above ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the costa nearly straight, 

 the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4859. Pseudinodes producta, n. sp. 



(S . Head white ; palpi blackish ; antennae with the branches 

 brown ; tegulte white with olive-green band at middle and some 

 olive-green at tips ; thorax olive-green mixed with white and 

 some red-brown ; pectus and legs white, the fore tibisB and the 

 tarsi banded with olive-green ; abdomen ochreous white with dark 

 dorsal spot on 2nd segment. Fore wing with the base white with 

 some large rufous raised scales ; a subbasal black point below 

 costa; a brown mark above inner margin before the antemedial 

 line which is formed by raised black scales, minutely waved and 

 excurved above inner margin ; medial area red-brown with some 

 large raised bluish-white scales and slightly irrorated with black ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, slightly defined by black at sides 

 only, the former rounded, the latter with its inner edge concave, 

 its outer expanding into a black spot at middle ; the brown area 

 bounded by the postmedial black line except at costa where it 



