490 NOCTUID^, 



line dark and incurved below the cell ; subterminal line not 

 defined ; the terraiual area irrorated with brown ; a terminal series 

 of distinct black lunules : cilia brown intersected with whitish. 

 Hind wing blackish with a broad yellowish white medial band with 

 the large blackish discoidal lunule on. it. Underside of fore wing 

 mottled blackish and j-ellow with a distinct broad postmedial band ; 

 hind wing pale yellowish with large black discoidal spot and 

 narrow interrupted irregular subterminal band ; both wings with 

 terminal series of black stria?. 



Hah. U.S.A., Louisiana, Sabine Parish. Exp. 27 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in 

 Coll. J. B. Smith. 



4979. Pseudacontia crustaria. 



Tarache crusiaria, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875. p. 70; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 273. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white and some blackish 

 scales ; palpi at base and pectus white ; tibiae and tarsi yellow- 

 brown ringed with white ; abdomen white with brownish segmental 

 bands. Fore wing red-])rown mixed with some white and black 

 scales, the medial and postmedial areas tinged with bluish white 

 except towards costa ; subbasal line represented by black striae 

 from costa and cell defined by black scales ; a broad antemedial 

 white band diffused on outer side ; orbicular and reniform very 

 small, black defined by white, the former round ; a postmedial 

 white band, excurved from below costa to vein 5, then incurved, some 



Fig. 234. — Pseudacontia crustaria, (S • \- 



white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line slight, whitish, 

 bent outwards below vein 7 and at middle where there is some 

 black suffusion before it ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia 

 red-brown mixed with white and with a blackish line through them. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown slightly irrorated with whitish ; a faint 

 dark diffused medial line defined by whitish on outer side ; a fine 

 dark terminal line ; cilia whitish and brown with a dark line near 

 base ; the underside white with some blackish irroratiou on veins 

 of basal area, a diffused sinuous blackish medial line and subterminal 

 band. 



Bah. U.S.A., Nebraska, Colorado, 1 J , 1 2 . Exp. 30 millim. 



