115 



2860. Trachea illocata. (Plate CX. fig. 22.) 



Hadena illocata, Wlk. xi. 758 (1857); Smith, Cat. Noc.t. N. Am 



p. 164. 

 Dryobota stigmata, Grote, Check List Noctuidce, p. 23 (1876). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with white, rufous or purple- 

 red and some black scales ; frons with black bar ; tegulse with 

 black medial line ; pectus clothed with pale brown and grey hair; 

 the tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen grey irrorated with 

 fuscous, the dorsal crests black, the lateral fringes rufous or purplish. 

 Fore wing grey irrorated and suifused with fuscous and tinged 

 with purplish red especially below the cell, the veins slightly 

 streaked with black ; a small tuft of black and white scales at base ; 

 subbasal line double, from costa to submedian fold, in which there 

 is a short black streak aud another on base of inner margin ; ante- 

 medial line black defined by grey on inner side, angled outwards 

 below costa, then excurved and angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform 

 moderate, more or less incompletely defined by black and with 

 black streak from it to postmedial line ; orbicular grey irrorated 

 with white and defined by black, somewhat oblique elliptical ; 

 reniform large, white defined by black and its centre by fuscous or 

 with its inner part grey ; a blackish medial line, oblique from costa 

 to below cell ; postmedial line double, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, then strongly dentate, incurved below vein 3, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish slightly 

 defined on each side by brown, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia 

 fuscous and grey. Hind wing grey with a cupreous tinge and more 

 or less completely suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; a discoidal 

 lunule, sinuous postmedial Hue, and diffused subterminal band ; a 

 terminal series of black striae ; the underside whitish, the costal 

 and terminal areas slightly tinged with purplish and irrorated with 

 fuscous, a discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and diffused sub- 

 terminal band. 



Hah. Ignotus, 1 (j- type; Canada, Ottawa (rbim^f), 2 S ', U.S.A., 

 Eastern, Middle, and Central States, Massachusetts, New York, 

 1 c? , 1 $ type stigmata, Center (Lintner, Hill), 2 c? , 2 5 , Colorado^ 

 Exjo. 42-44 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennre of male bipejtinate with short branches, the apex serrate, 



A. Fore wing green suffused in parts with red-brown, the 



postmedial line silvery blue cyanelinea. 



B. Fore wing whitish irrorated with brown and sufi^used in 



parts with olive-yellow subviridis. 



2861. Trachea cyanelinea. (Plate CX. fig. 23.) 



Euplexia cyanelinea, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 222 (1894). 



S • Head and thorax olive-brown, some of the hairs tipped with 

 black and white; palpi, frons, and antennae dark brown ; tibige and 



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