P^CTES. 125 



bj^ brown, tbe former minute, round, the latter with brown striga 

 in centre; medial line slight, dark, bent outwards beyond the cell, 

 then inwards to below the cell and dentate ; postmedial line double, 

 black, obsolescent towards costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 oblique to vein 6 where it is rather obtusely angled outwards, then 

 evenly incurved, some white points beyond it on costa and black 

 streaks above and below vein 6 ; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, 

 irregularly waved, excurved at middle, then incurved ; a series of 

 small black spots just before termen and a fine terminal line. Hind 

 wing grey suffused with brown, the inner area whitish towards 

 base; a dark postmedial striga at inner margin and two towards 

 tprnus ; a blackish terminal line ; cilia white with a brownish lino 

 through them ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a brown 

 discoidal lunule, sinuous medial line, indistinctly double waved' 

 postmedial line, and diffused waved subterminal line. 



Hah. V .'^.A.{Doxihleday), 1 5 type abrostolella, Mississippi, Texas 

 (Belfrage), 2 cj" , 1 $ type pra'inlata, New Mexico. Ex^i. 24-28 

 millim. 



Larva. H. Edw. & Elliot, Pcajjilio, iii. p. 135. 



Yellowish apple-green, each somite with fifteen to eighteen 

 irregularly disposed yellow spots, mostly lozenge-shaped, the sub- 

 dorsal spots somewhat linear ; 1st somite with yellow line in 

 front ; spiracles dull orange on a bright lemon-yellow stigmatal 

 line. Food-plant, Liquidambar ptyracijlua, Linn. 



6346. Psectes declinata. (Plate CLXXYIE. fig. 4.) 



Inqura declinata, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 207 (1879) ; Smitli, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p, 240. 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; neck with black 

 ring; tegulse blackish at tips; patagia with some black scales; 

 pectus whitish; tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen grey 

 dorsally suffused with brown, the lateral tufts and ventral bars on 

 basal segments blackish. Fore wing grey suffused with purple- 

 brown, es])ecially' on costal area and terminal area exce]»t towards 

 apex ; subbasal line represented by a dark striga from costa defined 

 on outer side bj- whitish ; antemedial line double, black, obsolescent 

 towards costa, angled outw^ards below costa and inwards in cell, then 

 excurved and angled inwards on vein 1 almost to base, a whitish 

 ])atch before it below the cell; orbicular and reniform grey defined 

 by brown, the former with brown point in centre, small, round, the 

 latter with brown striga in centre, someAvhat angled inwards on 

 median nervure ; a slight black medial line, bent outwards beyond 

 the cell and angled inwards below the cell and at vein 1 ; post- 

 medial line double, black, bent outwards below costa, oblique to 

 vein 6 where it is acutely angled outwards, then incurved and 

 slightly excurved at vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa and 

 black streaks above and below vein 6 ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 greyish, irregularly waved, incurved below vein 8 ; the terminal 



