292 NOCTTJIDiE. 



jSect. II. Antennas of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



*2458. Eurotype contadina. 



Folia contadina, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 71, pi, 3. f. 1 (1894) ; 

 Dyar, Oat. Lep. N. Am. p. 120. 



S. Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous ; palpi with black 

 patch on 2nd joint; frons with black bar; antennae black ringed 

 with white ; some black on vertex of head ; tegulae with black 

 medial line and tips ; patagia with black outer edge and line near 

 upper edge ; vertex of thorax black ; tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen fuscous mixed with grey, the dorsal crests blackish. Fore 

 wing grey-white largely suffused with fuscous, the medial area 

 darker ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell and another 

 above inner margin near base ; subbasal line double, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line defined by white on inner 

 side, oblique, slightly waved, angled inwards on vein 1 and bent 



Fig. 86. — Eurotype contadina, d* • f- 



inwards to inner margin; claviform defined by black; orbicular 

 and reniform whitish defined by black and with some fuscous in 

 centre, the former small, rounded ; an irregularly waved medial 

 line ; postmedial line double filled in with white, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4 and acutely angled 

 inwards in submedian fold ; subterminal line white defined on inner 

 side by dentate black marks and with a blackish patch before it at 

 costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at discal and sub- 

 m.edian folds, where there are patches of blackish suff'usion beyond 

 it ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered fuscous 

 and white. Hind wing greyish suff'used with fuscous brown and 

 with diffused subterminal band ; cilia whitish with a dark line 

 through them; the underside grey- white irrorated Avith brown, a 

 small black discoidal lunule and diff'used subterminal line. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus DICHONIA. 



Type. 



Dichonia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 217 (1827) areola. 



Xylocan\'pa, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1837, p. 227 areola. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2ud joint oblique, clothed with 

 long hair, the 3rd porrect ; frons smootli, rounded, with large frontal tuft; 

 ■eyes large, round ; antennas of male typically nearly simple ; head and thorax 



