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NOCTUID.^. 



Genus FOTA. 



Type 



■ Fata, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 174 (1882) armata. 



Proboscis fuUv developed ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head 

 and fringed with long scales below, the 8rd joint moderate; Irons with large 

 rounded corneous prominence with raised edges and long pointed central 

 process hidden in long hair, a large corneous plate below it; eyes large, 

 round ■ antennse of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with sc-alea, 

 the pro- and metathorax with slight spreading crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled, 

 the fore tibia with small curved claw on inner side ; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing long and narro\r, the margins subparallel, the apex rounded, the 

 termen obliquely curved and not creuulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 ] 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 typically from cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to 

 middle. 



Sect. I. Hind wing of female with veins 3, 4 stalked. 



3826. Fota minorata. 



Foia 7ninorata, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 181 (1882) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 



Am. p. 183. 

 Iscadia aperta, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 474 (part.), nee Wlk. 



Head and tegulse ochreous white, palpi, sides of frons and 

 antennse mixed with brown ; thorax dark grs}' mixed with fuscous 

 and whitish ; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous white. Fore 

 wing purplish grey suffused and irrorated with fuscous especially 

 on costal area ; an indistinct curved subbasal line with paler grey 

 before it and beyond it at costa, an elongate pale grey mark defined 



Fig. 43. — Fota minorata, 5 • \- 



by blackish beyond it in cell ; antemedial line indistinctly double, 

 slightly angled outwards below costa, excurved to submediau fold, 

 then incurved ; orbicular and reniform pale grey defined by black, 

 their centres tinged with brown, the former round, the latter 

 elliptical and with curved dark line in centre ; postmedial line 

 very indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 waved and below vein 4 strongly bent inwards ; the interspaces of 

 terminal area with slight black streaks. Hind wing j^ellowish 

 white. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona (Hulst), 1 $ ; Mexico, Sonora (Morrison), 

 1 c? , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exjj. 28-30 millim. 



