196 NOCTUID^. 



then excurved ; claviform minute, incompletely defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, with whitish annuli incompletely 

 defined by black, the former round ; a black medial line ; post- 

 medial line defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 5, then incurved ; subterminal line whitish, 

 slightly defined bv red-brown on inner side and by a dentate black 

 line on outer, angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved at discal and 

 submedian folds ; the veins of terminal area with slight dark 

 streaks ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing orange-yellow with 

 black terminal band, broad at costa, narrowing to tornus, its inner 

 edge rather sinuous : cilia white at tips ; the underside with the 

 costal area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point. 



Huh. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 5 tj^^e {Cockerell), 5 c? , New Mexico, 

 Beulah ( Cocl-erell), 1 S . Ktj). 30 millim, 



2335. Pseudanarta falcata. (Plate CI. fig. 12.) 



Pseudanarta falcata, Neuin. Pap. iii. p. 141 (1883) ; Smitb, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 149. 



Head and thorax red-brown irrorated with white ; tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen brown mixed with grey and ventrally irrorated 

 with white. Fore wing red-brown irrorated with white, especially 

 on the veins ; antemedial line indistinct, defined by white scales on 

 inner side, slightly angled outwards below costa, then oblique to 

 above inner margin, to which it is bent inwards ; orbicular and 

 reniform narrow, defined by white scales, the former very oblique 

 elliptical, the latter rather concave towards base ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 5, then oblique ; an indistinct sinuous white sub- 

 terminal line and a fine white line just before termen. Hind wing 

 orange with black terminal band, broad at costa, narrowing to 

 tornus ; cilia fuscous at base, yellowish white at tips ; the underside 

 ^ith the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a black discoidal 

 point. 



Bah. U.S.A., Texas, Shovel Mt., 1 J, Kerrville, 1 c?, 2 $, 

 Arizona, Port Huachuca. Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus FERALIA. ^ 



Type. 

 Feraliai Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 58 (1874) jocosa. 



Proboscis slight, .non-fjinctional ; palpi short, upturned, fringed with long 

 hair in front ; frons smooth ; eyes small,, elliptical ; aptennaj of male bipectinate 

 ■with short fine branches, decreasing to base and apex, of female ciliated with 

 minute tufts of scales at the joints ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair 

 only, the pro- and metathorax with slight crests ; pectus and legs clothed with 

 long hair ; abdomen clothed with rough hair and with lateral fringes of hair 

 but without crests. Fore wing triangular, the termen obliquely curved ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



