682 



noctuid^. 



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 a 

 longitudinally narrow areole, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell to middle. 



6029. Fruva fasciatella. 



Spragueia fasciatella, G-rote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 225 (1875); Smith, Cat. 

 JN : oct. N. Am. p. 302. 



S • Head and tegulse white ; antennae brownish ; thorax ochreous 

 tinged with rufous ; pectus and legs white, the fore tibia? and the 

 tarsi brownish ringed with white ; abdomen brownish ochreous, 

 ventrally white. Fore wing ochreous white tinged with rufous ; ' 

 an indistinct diffused curved rufous antemedial line ; medial line 

 indistinct, diffused, rufous, oblique from costa to middle of cell, 



Fig. 195. — Fruva fasciatella, S- s- 



then inwardly oblique ; traces of a minute elliptical rufous roni- 

 form ; postraedial line indistinct, rufous, diffused, excurved from 

 costa to vein 5, then incurved ; a terminal series of slight brown 

 points ; cilia red-brown with some ochreous at base. Hind wing 

 ochreous white, the veins and termen tinged with red-brown ; 

 cilia white with a slight brown line at base ; the underside uniform 

 ochreous white. 



2 • Fore wing more mottled with red-brown, the costal area 

 whitish ; orbicular a brown point with white annulus ; reniform 

 distinct; postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side; sub- 

 terminal line whitish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then 

 bent inwards and oblique to tornus ; an oblique red-brown mark 

 from apex. 



Hob. U.S.A., Texas (Belfraqe). 1 d" , 3 $ type, Arizona, Globe 

 (Knnze), 2 rf , Pinal Mts. (Zunze), 2 tf , 2 $ . "Exp. 18-20 milliin. 



Genus CONOCHARES. „ 



Type. 



Conochares, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xiii. p. 207 (1905) acuta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, short ; frons with 

 rounded prominence with slight raised rim at extremity and corneous plate 

 below it ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male almost simple ; thorax clothed 

 almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with 



