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NOCTIJID^. 



rufous terminal line ; abdomen red-brown with slight dark irrora- 

 tion, the base greyish, the ventral surface and legs brighter rufous. 

 Fore wing red-brown suftused with purplish grey and irrorated with 

 black ; subbasal line represented by a slight blackish striga from 

 costa with a point beyond it in cell ; antemedial line blackish 

 slightly defined by grey on inner side, very oblique and slightly 

 excurved below costa and at vein 1 ; claviform absent ; orbicular 

 and reniform large with pale grey aunuli, the former round, the 

 latter elliptical ; postmedial line pale grey with black points on its 

 inner edge, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, pale with slight dark suffusion on inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it 

 somewhat paler ; a terminal series of brown lunules. Hind wing 

 red-brown, the base slightly paler, the terminal area rather darker ; 

 cilia rufous, whitish at tips ; the underside pale tinged with pink 

 and irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and slightly sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 1 5 type. Exp. 42 millim. 



Larva. Dyar, Proc. Eut. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 324 (1899). 



Head bilobed, broader than high, shining brown with broad 

 dark brown curved vertical band and distinct reticulations. Body 

 greenish thickly mottled with brown ; dorsal line narrow, white ; 

 substigmatal line broad, filled with red mottlings ; cervical shield 

 brown, not polished, slightly darker than body, cut by white dorsal and 

 subdorsal lines ; anal plate concolorous with body ; spiracles white 

 with black rims. Food-plants : Oak and Wild Cherry. — H. Gf. D. 



Sect. II. Antenna of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



2647. Psectraglsea pilifera. 



Agrostis 2nlifera, Wlk. x. 343 (1856). 



S . Head and thorax deep reddish brown ; abdomen rather 

 greyer brown, the hair on claspers rufous. Fore wing dark reddish 



Fig. 155. — PsectraglcBa 2nlifera, c^ . ■}. 



brown, the costal area uniformly tinged with blackish; the sub- 

 basal, ante- and postmedial lines, claviform and orbicular obsolete, 

 the reniform represented by a faint dark mark ; subterminal line 

 very indistinct, brown, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards in 

 discal fold: a terminal series of slight black points. Hind wing 

 ochreous thickly irrorated and the terminal area suffused with dark 



