642 



NOCTTJIDiE. 



joint broadly fringed with hair in front, tbe ord short, 

 smooth ; antennjB of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 scales, the latter with very slight spreading crests on 

 fore tibiffi fringed with hair ; in id and hind tibiaa spined. 

 apex rounded, the termen somevA-hat creuulate ; veins 3 

 of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing wi 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen somewhat cr 

 discal fold ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



blunt, porrect ; frons- 

 clothed with hair and 

 pro- and metathorax ; 

 , Fore wing broad, the 

 and 5 from near angle 

 th 8 to form the areole ; 

 enulate and excised at 

 from middle of disco- 



A. Fore wing with the groinid-colour brownish ochreous 



B. Fore wing with the gi-ound-colour grey 



tyjjica. 

 •pyrcypldloidcs. 



1106. Pronoctiia typica. 



Pronodua typica, Smith, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. xxi. p. 45, pi. iv. f. 1 (1894).. 



Pale brownish ochreous ; palpi and frons suffused with fuscous ; 

 thorax irrorated with fuscous, the tarsi banded with blaclc. Pore 

 wing irrorated with black ; a double, waved, subbasal line from 

 costa to vein 1, with some fuscous suffusion between it and the 

 double irregularly waved antemedial line, which is angled outwards 

 below costa ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and ochreous 

 annuli defined by blackish, the former somew^hat elliptical, the latter 

 partly obscured by the medial shade, which is oblique from costa to 

 loAver angle of cell, then w^aved, the cell between the stigmata 

 blackish ; a dentate postmedial line strongly bent outwards below 



Fig. 115. — Pronoctiia tyjnca, cj". \, 



costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, and wnth traces of a line 

 beyond it ; the subterminal line ochreous, waved, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by fuscous suffusion 

 before it and fuscous suffusion on terminal area ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing ochreous tinged with pale brown ; the 

 cilia yellowish. Underside of both wings pale, with curved dark 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Chaffee Co., 7000 ft. 

 {Brace), 1 $ . Exp. 48 millim. 



1107. Pronoctua pyrophiloides. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 20.) 



Ayrotis pyropMloidcs, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 37 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N, Am. p. 78. 



5 . Head and thorax pale grey-brown mixed with darker brown ; 

 palpi fuscous at sides ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 



