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NOCTUIDiE. 



outer edge and minutely dentate ; a faint crenulate dark terminal 

 line. Hind wing fuscous slightly irrorated with black scales, the 

 terminal area rufous finely pencilled with black ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, black, slightly sinuous, obsolescent on costal area ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish slightly defined on inner side hj black, dentate, 



Fig. bl.— Zcde Jwrr Ida, J. \. 



arising at vein 6 ; the underside grey suffused with red-brown and 

 irrorated with dark brown, a slight blackish discoidal lunule, traces 

 of an antemedial and two medial lines, a slight waved postmedial 

 line. 



Hab. Canada {Norman), 1 2 ; U.S.A., Eastern States to Texas 

 and west to the Eocky Mts., 1 J , 3 $ , New York (FiicJis), 1 d ■ 

 -E'.ty. 42-46 millim. 



Genus SYPNOIDES, nov. 



Type, »S. pannosa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacliing to about 

 vertex of bead and broadly scaled, the 3rd long and tbiclsly scaled ; frons 

 sniootb, with tuft of bair above ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male typically 

 witb fasciculate cilia ; tborax clothed almost entirely witb scales, the pro- 

 and metatborax with large spreading ci-ests ; tibice slightly fringed with bair, 

 the fore tibite not spined, the bind tibite spined ; abdomen with dorsal 

 series of crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved 

 and crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing witb 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with the cell about half the length of wing; Aeins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully 

 developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Anteniia3 of male bipectinate, with long branches, the apex ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with white suffusion on medial area, the basal 



and terminal areas without blackish patches cqnaioi'ialis. 



B. Fore wing without white isuffusion on medial area, the 



baeal and terminal areas with blackish patches mandarina. 



