PECTES. 12% 
6348. Pectes abrostoloides. (Plate CLXXVII. fic. 6.) 
Ingura abrostoloides, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 311 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. 
N. Am. p. 240. 
Edema producta, Wik. v. 1031 (1855). 
3. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the vertex of 
head whitish; palpi and sides of frons blackish; neck with black 
band; tegule with brown lines at middle and tips; patagia with 
some black scales at tips; pectus whitish; tarsi black tinged with 
white; abdomen brown, whitish at base and with dorsal series of 
slight black bars. Fore wing grey, almost entirely suffused with 
brown; subbasal line represented by slight double striz from costa ; 
antemedial line double, black, obsolescent towards costa, angled out- 
wards below costa, then excurved and strongly angled inwards on 
vein 1, an ochreous white patch before it below the cell; orbicular 
a faint pale round spot; reniform a faint pale lunule with brown 
striga in centre; medial line very indistinct, double, bent outwards 
below costa to just beyond the cell and dentate below the cell; 
postmedial line double, black, obsolescent towards costa, bent out- 
wards below costa, oblique to vein 6, then incurved and slightly 
angled outwards below vein 4, some white points beyond it on 
costa; subterminal line indistinct, pale, irregularly dentate, crossed 
by an oblique series of three black streaks from termen below apex 
to vein 6 at postmedial line; a waved black line just before termen 
and fine terminal brown line; cilia intersected with blackish. 
Hind wing fuscous brown, the interspaces of basal half paler; an 
oblique blackish postmedial striga and two subterminal strive at 
inner margin with some white between them; a fine dark terminal 
line; cilia white with brown spots from apex to vein 4; the 
underside whitish tinged with brown, a waved medial line, double 
minutely crenulate postmedial line, diffused subterminal line, and 
terminal series of slight lunules. 
2. Fore wing without the whitish patch before antemedial line. 
Hab. Canava; U.S.A.,1 5,39, Massachusetts, Illinois, Alabama, 
Florida, St. John’s Biuff (Doubleday), 4 3, 3 Q type producta. 
Missouri. Hap. 28-34 millim. 
6349. Pectes fuscescens. (Plate CLXXVILI. fig. 7.) 
Edema fuscescens, Wik. v. 1031 (1855). 
Ingura abrostoloides, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 326 (nec Guen.), 
_ Head and thorax red-brown tinged with grey, some black scales 
at tips of patagia and on metathorax; pectus yellowish white ; 
tarsi blackish tinged with white; abdomen reddish brown mixed 
with grey, the basal segments whitish with slight black bars 
followed by black points, the ventral surface white tinged with 
rufous. Fore wing grey, almost entirely suffused with purple- 
brown; subbasal line represented by a slight pale striga from costa ; 
antemedial line indistinctly double, blackish, angled outwards below 
