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suffused with fuscous brown; a waved dark terminal line; cilia 

 white with a dark line through them ; the underside white irrorated 

 with brown, a dark discoidal spot and curved subterminal line. 

 Hab. U.S.A., California, Sauzalito, 2 J , 1 $ type. Exp. 36 millim. 



2918. Trachea miselioides. (Plate CXI. fig. 32.) 



Hadena miselioides, Giien. Nocfc. ii. p. 89 (1852); Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. 



Schmett. f. 212; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 145. 

 Hadena miiscelhcs, Sinitb, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 40 (1902). 



Head and thorax sap-green mixed with brown and grey ; palpi 

 grey and black mixed ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegulge 

 blackish at base and with black and grey medial line ; tegulae green 

 at middle defined by black and edged with brown ard grey ; tibite 

 and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen brown and grey. Eore wing 

 sap-green suffused in parts with olive-brown, the veins streaked 

 with grey and irrorated with white ; subbasal line waved, black, 

 from costa to vein 1 towards which it is double, and with black 

 mark and white striga below it on inner margin ; autemedial line 

 double at costa, oblique, irregularly waved, bent inwards to inner 

 margin ; claviform faintly defined by black and usually with diffused 

 blackish streak below it to postmedial line ; orbicular green with 

 slight pale annulus defined by black, round ; reniform with white 

 centre, often more or less completely suffused with reddish and 

 defined by black, the annulus defined from centre by a more or 

 less incomplete grey line ; an indistinct medial line oblique from 

 costa to vein 2, then waved ; postmedial line indistinctly double 

 filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 excurved to vein 5, then incurved, some pale points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale defined on inner 

 side by slight dentate brown marks, slightly excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black points , cilia 

 fuscous and grey intersected with green. Hind wing fuscous, the 

 base and inner margin somwbat paler ; a dark postmedial line 

 defined by whitish on outer side and with black striga above 

 tornus; cilia greenish white with dark line through them; the 

 underside white irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule, 

 irregularly crenulate postmedial line, diffused subterminal band, 

 and terminal series of small black lunules. 



Ab. 1. miscellus. Fuscous brown and grey with hardly any 

 green. 



Hah. U.S.A., east of Eocky Mts., New York, Evans Center 

 (Oroie), 2 J , 3 ?, Distr. of Columbia, Alabama, 1 $, Florida, 

 St. John's Bluff (DoubJeday), 2 c5' , 1 $ type, Kansas (Snow), 1 (^ , 

 1 2 , Texas, Dallas (Boll), 1 (^ , 4 $ . Fxp. 34-40 millim. 



Larva. Dyar, Can. Ent. 1899, p. 286. 



Head testaceous green, small ; 12th somite sharply humped ; body 

 translucent velvety green irrorated with whitish subventrally ; a 

 somewhat broad diffused rather faint white stigmatal line; tubercles 

 i. and ii. and a dot before ii. distinct, pale yellow with dark green 



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