124 NOCTTJIDiE. 



ring ; tegulae with dark line near tips, wliicli are white ; thorax 

 with some dark brown scales ; pectus white ; tarsi dark brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen reddish brown tinged wth grey. Fore 

 wing grey ahnost wholly suffused with dark brown ; subbasal line 

 represented by a slight striga from coata ; antemedial line double, 

 the outer line prominent, black, angled outwards below costa, then 

 excurved and acutely angled inwards on vein 1, a whitish patch 

 before it below the cell ; orbicular represented by a pale point, the 

 reniform by a greyish lunule with dark striga in centre ; medial 

 Hue slight, bent outwards beyond the cell, then inwards to below 

 the cell and dentate ; postmedial line double, black, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6 where it is rather obtusely 

 angled, then evenly incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subtermiual line greyish, angled inwards at discal fold and below 

 vein 3 and excurved at middle, crossed by black streaks above and 

 below vein 6 ; a greyish patch at apex ; a series of black strite just 

 before termen and a fine terminal line ; cilia with a dark line 

 through them. Hind wing dark brown with a cupreous tinge ; 

 postmedial and two subterminal dark striae at inner margin with 

 whitish between them; cilia white slightly chequered Avith brown ; 

 the underside red mixed with blackish and some grey and with 

 indistinct medial, double postmedial, and subterminal blackish lines. 

 Ilab. U.S.A., Kansas, i)ouglas Co. (Snow), 1 cJ , 1 § type. U.q). 

 d 26, 2 28 millim. 



6345. Psectes pygmsea. 



Pceetes pi/gmcsa, Hiibn. Zatr. Ex. Scliuiett. p. 21, ff. 103-10 (1827) ; Smith, 



Oat. J!^oct. N. Am. p. 241. 

 Siihrlta abrodoklla, Wlk. xxxv. 1744 (1866) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 240. 

 Ingura inwpilata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 311 (lS75j. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; Irons with dark bar 

 above ; neck with black ring ; tarsi brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey suffused with brown, a dorsal series of slight black 

 bars and lateral spots on medial segments. I'^ore wing grey suffused 



Fi^'. 46. — Pcsctes pygmcea,, J. }. 



with brown ; a subbasal dark striga from costa ; antemedial line 

 double, black, obsolescent towards costa, angled outwards below 

 costa, then excurved and acutely angled inwards on vein 1, a whitish 

 patch before it below the cell; orbicular and reniform white defined 



