[24 NOCTUID.E. 
ring; tegule with dark line near tips, which are white; thorax 
with some dark brown scales; pectus white; tarsi dark brown 
ringed with white; abdomen reddish brown tinged wth grey. Fore 
wing grey almost wholly suffused with dark brown; subbasal line 
represented by a slight striga from costa; antemedial line double, 
the outer line prominent, black, angled outwards below costa, then 
excurved and acutely angled inwards on vein 1, a whitish patch 
before it below the cell; orbicular represented by a pale point, the 
reniform by a greyish lunule with dark striga in centre; medial 
line slight, bent outwards beyond the cell, then inwards to below 
the cell and dentate; postmedial line double, black, slightly bent 
outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6 where it is rather obtusely 
angled, then evenly incurved, some white points beyond it on costa; 
subterminal line greyish, angled inwards at discal fold and below 
vein 3 and excurved at middle, crossed by black streaks above and 
below vein 6; a greyish patch at apex; a series of black striz just 
before termen and a fine terminal line; cilia with a dark line 
through them. Hind wing dark brown with a cupreous tinge ; 
postmedial and two subterminal dark strive at inner margin with 
whitish between them; cilia white slightly chequered with brown; 
the underside red mixed with blackish and some grey and with 
indistinct medial, double postmedial, and subterminal blackish lines. 
Hab. U.S.A., Kansas, Douglas Co. (Snow), 1¢,1 9 type. xp. 
dg 26, 2 28 millim, 
6545. Pectes pygmea. 
Pectes pygmea, Hibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. p. 21, ff. 109-10 (1827) ; Sinith, 
_ Cat. Nuct. N. Am, p. 241. 
Subrita abrostolella, Wik. xxxv. 1744 (1866); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 
p: 240. 
Ingura prepilata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 311 (1875). 
Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; frons with dark bar 
above; neck with black ring; tarsi brown ringed with white; 
abdomen grey suffused with brown, a dorsal series of slight black 
bars and lateral spots on medial segments. Fore wing grey suffused 
Fiz. 46.—Pectes pygmea, 3. }. 
with brown; a subbasal dark striga from costa; antemedial line 
double, black, obsolescent towards costa, angled outwards below 
costa, then excurved and acutely angled inwards on vein 1, a whitish 
patch before it below the cell; orbicular and reniform white detined 
