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6348. Pssctes abrostoloides. (Plate CLXXVII. fig. 6.) 



Ingura abrostoloides, Gueu. Noct. ii. p. 311 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Aiu. p. 240. 

 Edema prochicta, Wlk. v. 1031 (1855). 



S • Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the vertex of 

 head whitish ; palpi and sides of frons blackish ; neck with black 

 band ; tegula? with brown lines at middle and tips ; patagia with 

 some black scales at tips ; pectus whitish ; tarsi black tinged with 

 white; abdomen brown, whitish at base and with dorsal series of 

 slight black bars. Fore wing grey, almost entirely suffused with 

 brown ; subbasal line rejjresented by slight doiible striae from oosta ; 

 aiitemedial line double, black, obsolescent towards costa, angled out- 

 wards below costa, then exeurved and strongly angled inwards on 

 vein 1, an ochreous wliite patch before it below the cell; orbicular 

 a faint pale round s])ot ; reniform a faint pale lunule with brown 

 striga in centre; medial line very indistinct, double, bent outwards 

 below costa to just beyond the cell and dentate below the cell; 

 postmedial line double, black, obsolescent towards costa, bent out- 

 wards below costa, oblique to vein 6, then incurved and slightly 

 angled outwards below vein 4, some white points beyond it on 

 costa; subterminal line indistinct, pale, irregularly dentate, crossed 

 by an oblique series of three black streaks from termen below apex 

 to vein 6 at postmedial line; a waved black line just before termen 

 and fine terminal brown line ; cilia intersected with blackish. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the interspaces of basal half paler; an 

 oblique blackish postmedial striga and two subterminal striae at 

 inner margin with some white between them; a fine dark terminal 

 line ; cilia white with brown spots from apex to vein 4 ; tho 

 underside whitish tinged with brown, a waved medial line, double 

 minutely crenulate postmedial line, diffused subterminal line, and 

 terminal series of slight lunules. 



$ . Fore wing without the whitish patch before nntemedial line. 

 Hah. Canaba; U.S.A., 1 c? , 3 5 , Massachusetts, Illinois, Alabama, 

 Florida, St. John's Bluff (DouUeday), 4 c? , 3 $ type producta. 

 Missouri. Exp. 28-34 millim. 



6349. Pgectes fuscescens. (Plate CLXXVII. fig. 7.) 



Edema fuscesccns, Wlk. v. 1031 (1855). 



Ingura abrostoloides, Dnice, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 326 (nee Guen.). 



Head and thorax rod-brown tinged with grej', some black scales 

 at tips of patagia and on mctathorax ; pectus yellowdsh white ; 

 tarsi blackish tinged with white ; abdomen reddish brown mixed 

 with grey, the basal segments whitish with slight black bars 

 followed by black points, the veiitral surface white tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing grey, almost entirely suffused with purple- 

 brown ; subbasal line represented by a slight pale striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line indistinctly double, blackisli, angled outwards below 



