232 Noc'iriDJE. 



3849. Hadenella pergentilis. 



Hadcnella pergentilis, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 123 (1883); Smith, Cat. Jfoct. 

 N. Am. p. 164. 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with brown and fuscous 

 scales ; frons with lateral black bars : antennae, ringed black and 

 white ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with black. Fore wiag 

 whitish irrorated with fuscous and tinged with ochreous except 

 towards costa, the "veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line 

 represented by an oblique black striga from costa ; antemedial 

 line defined by whitish on inner side, dentate, strongly angled 

 outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin ; claviform 

 very large, extending almost to postmedial line, defined by brown 

 above and fuscous below ; orbicular small with white annulus 

 defined by fuscous; reniform with fuscous centre and slight whitish 



Fig. b^.-^Hadendla pergeniili 



annulus defined by black, an oblique fuscous shade from costa to 

 reniform; postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, 

 then dentate, oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line white defined 

 by rufous on inner side and by an oblique blackish wedge-shaped 

 patch from costa, somewhat angled outAvards at veins 7 and 4 and 

 incurved at submedian fold ; the terminal area darker except at 

 apex ; cilia white with black line near base and blackish tips. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with ochreous brown, the veins darker; 

 a fine black terminal line; cilia white with a luscous line near 

 base ; the underside sparsely irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot 

 and indistinct curved postmedial line with minute dark streaks on 

 the reins. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Wyoming, Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 

 2 S . Exj), 32 millim. 



Genus FOTELLA. 



Type. 

 Fotella, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 181 (1882) notalis. 



Proboscis fully deTeloped ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint slender, reaching 

 to middle of frons and fringed with scales in front, the 3rd short ; frons 

 with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 antennae of female ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with scales only, a ridge 

 of scales between antenna; prothorax without crest, metathorax with large 

 spreading crest ; tibiie slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest 

 at base only ; build slender ; wings ample. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; tt from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just 

 below middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base onlv. 



