412 NOCTUID^. 



8228. Rachiplusia pedalis. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 4.) 



Plusia pedalis, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 20J: (1875) ; Smithy Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 252. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with grey ; tarsi 

 ringed with white. Fore wing brown mixed with grey, slightly 

 irrorated with black and with a golden gloss ; subbasal line dark 

 brown defined on outer side by whitish, sinuous, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double, brown filled in 

 with whitish, excurved below costa and above vein 1 ; an oblique 

 U-shaped silvery stigma defined by blackish below the cell ; reniform 

 faintly defined by whitish, very narrow and strongly constricted at 

 middle, with slight blackish points in its extremities ; postmedial 

 line brown defined on each side by whitish, bent outwards below 

 costa. then minutely waved and oblique, slightly angled inwards at 

 vein 2, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 brown defined on outer side by whitish, slightly angled outwards at 

 veins 7, 6 and below veins 4, 3, ending at tornus ; a terminal series 

 of small brown lunules defined by a waved whitish line ; cilia 

 chequered brown and whitish. Hind Aving brown ; cilia white with 

 a brown line near base ; the underside tinged with grey and with an 

 indistinct postmedial line. 



Sab. U.S.A., Kansas, 1 $ type. J^xjy. 42 millim. 



Genus SYNGRAPHA. 



Type. 



Syngrapha, Hiibn. Yei-z. p. 250 (1827) aln. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ad joint I'eaching to about 

 vertex of head and moderately fringed wilh liair in front, the 3rd moderate ; 

 frons smooth, with large tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antenna3 of male 

 ciliated ; tliorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the metathorax with 

 large divided crest; tibiis slightly fringed with hair, the hind tibias spined 

 between the medial and terniinal spurs only; abdomen with dorsal crests on 

 basal segments, the crests on 1st and 3rd segments large. Fore wing typically 

 with the apex hardly produced, the termen obliquely curved, crenulate, 

 the tornus with scale-tooth, veins 8 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from 

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

 Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully 

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

 tlie coll near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with the apex not produced, the termen not excised below 

 it. 



A. Hind wing yellow. 



a. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell oblique 



Y-shaped, rarely V-shaped. 



«!. Fore wing with the subterminal line angled out- 

 wards below veins 4 and 3 ain. 



b^. Fore wing with the subterminal line slightly 



excurved below veins 4 and 3 microgamma. 



b. Fore wing witli the stigma below the cell U-shaped, 



sometimes with a streak beyond its lower extremity. 



