250 NOCTUID^^;. 



Larva. Head reddish, black in front, tlie V-mark over cl3"peu3 

 contrasted. £ody robust, joints 5 and 12 enlarged; brown, reddish 

 on the dorsal line and below the spiracles, finely longitudinally 

 strigose ; subdorsal line pale yellow with a row of black wedge- 

 shaped marks above it ; lateral area behind joint 5 as pale as sub- 

 dorsal line, below dark ; a brown spot on joint 5 ; substigoaatal 

 band obsolete. — H. G. i). 



3865. Prodenia prseiica. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 20.) 



Trodenia prmjica, Gi-rote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 44 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 170. 



Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with pale red-brown ; 

 palpi with brown patches at sides of 1st and 2nd joints ; patagia 

 with some dark scales near upper edge ; tibiae with some dark 

 brown points ; tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen ochreous 

 white tinged with reddish brown. Pore wing ochreous white 

 suff'used in parts with brown and grey and irrorated with black, 

 the veins with slight pale streaks ; subbasal line represented by 

 slight double black strise from costa filled in with whitish ; an 

 oblique irregular whitish line from subcostal nervure before the 

 antemedial line to vein 1 ; antemedial line indistinctly double 

 filled in with whitish, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, 

 waved, retracted to inner margin ; the medial area with the median 

 nervure and veins arising from it streaked with white : orbicular 

 oblique, white defined at sides by black, with brown line in middle 

 and without bar on its outer edge, some whitish below it above 

 base of vein 1 ; reniform incompletely defined by blackish with 

 black and white bar on inner edge and whitish mark on outer, its 

 upper extremity produced to an indistinctly defined point ; an 

 indistinct oblique waved black line from vein 5 beyond the cell to 

 inner margin; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique, sinuous, incurved at discal 

 and submedian folds and bent outwards to inner margin, some 

 white points beyond it on costa and slight oblique difl'used violaceous 

 white fascia from apex ; subterminal line white, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards in submedian fold, a series 

 of short black streaks before it in the interspaces, a fine curved 

 white line beyond it bent inwards to costa ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; cilia brown intersected with white and with 

 white line at base. Hind wing white tinged with brown, especially 

 on the veins and terminal area ; a slight discoidal lunule ; a 

 terminal series of brown striae except towards tornus ; cilia white ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated M'ith brown, a blackish 

 discoidal lunule and terminal series of black points from apex to 

 vein 2. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Mendocino, 2 Jj 1 $ tjpe, Sauzalito, 

 1 2 . Exp. 40-46 millim. 



