482 



NOCTtJIB.E. 



series of small dark spots defined b}- slight pale luiiules ; cilia with 

 a fine whitish lino at base. Hind wing grey suffiLsed with ])alc 

 brown : cilia whitish with a slight brown line through them ; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot 

 and curved postmcdial line. 



Hah. Canada, Ontario, St. Catherines, 1 J type ; U.S.A., jSTcw 

 York, Buffalo. Exp. 24 millim. 



Larva. Head pale brown with a curved black band on each lobe. 

 Body robust, joint 12 enlarged; dark brown, mottled, dorsum 

 paler, pinkish on joints 7 to 12, enlarged to a triangular patch on 

 joint 8 ; a bright white speck subdorsally on joint 12; a slender 

 blackish lateral line. Food-plant : dead leaves of Oak. — H. G. P. 



4183. Monodes chalcedonia. , (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 22.) 



Noctua chalcedonia, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 40i (1808) ; SmiLli. Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 160. 

 Celana arna, Guen. Noct. i. p. 222 (1862). 

 Celana exinmcta, Wlk. x. 269 (1856). 

 Miania vincta, Wlk. xi. 730 (1857). 

 Celmna irresoluta, Wlk. xi. 731 (1867). 

 Laphygona trientiplaga, Wlk. xv. 1677 (1868). 

 Haden.a tracta, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nal,. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 204. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous mixed \\ ith lu'own ; 

 metathorax with the crest blackish ; tarsi black with pale rings. 

 Fore wing ochreous suffused with brown, the basal area and costal 

 area to medial line ochreous leaving the costa browner ; subbasal 

 line represented by slight dark striffi from costa and cell ; an 

 oblique blackish shade from antemedial line at median nervure to 

 inner margin towards base ; antemedial line double filled in with 

 ochreous, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, waved ; 

 claviform small, ochreous slightly defined by brown ; orbicular and 

 reniform small with dark centres and ochreous annuli defined by- 

 brown, the former rather elongate elliptical, the latter narrow and 

 open above, a black streak in discal fold between them and beyond 

 the reniform to the postmedial line ; an indistinct waved medial 

 line ; postmedial line double filled in with ochreous, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 5, then incurved to lower 

 edge of reniform and outwardly oblique to inner margin ; some 

 ochreous points beyond it on costa ; an irregular ochreous apical 

 l>atch with, black point on costa, the faint ochreous subterminal line 

 arising from it, somewhat excurved at middle and diffused towards 

 tornus ; a terminal series of black points with ochreous points 

 before them ; cilia brown with a punctiform ochreous line at base. 

 Hind wing semihyaline white, the costal area and the termen to 

 vein 2 suffused with brown ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia brown 

 at tips on apical half; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a black discoidal point and postmedial series of minute 

 points on the veins. 



2 . Fore wing with the basal and costal areas suffused with 

 brown. 



