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through them ; the underside -whitish irrorated "with brown, a 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. Canada, Manitoba ; U.S.A., Xew York, Clyde, Washington, 

 Pullman, 1 $ . Eay. 44 millim. 



2929. Trachea turbulenta. (Plate CXII. fig. 10.) 



Phosphila turbnlenta, Hilbn. Ziitr. Ex. Sehmett. pi. 15. ff. 67, 68 (1827) 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 145. 

 Xylophasia arcuata, Wlk. xi. 718 (1857). 



2 ' Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with dark 

 brown ; tarsi blackish with pale rings. Pore wing red-brown 

 suffused and irrorated with black-brown, the medial area darker, 

 the postmedial area rather paler except at costa ; a slight black 

 streak in base of submedian fold ; subbasal line waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a slight black streak above inner margin before 

 the antemedial hne, which is angled outwards below ccsta and 

 above inner margin and excurved below cell; claviform defined by 

 black, small, or large and extending to postmedial line ; orbicular 

 and reniform rufous defined by fuscous and their centres by brown, 

 the former small, rather oblique elliptical, the latter pale ; an 

 indistinct curved medial line ; postmedial line defined by pale 

 rufous on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then rather 

 strongly dentate, excurved to vein 4, then obliquely incurved, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa, and black streaks in the interspaces 

 below costa and fascia in submedian fold, the latter extending to 

 termen ; subterminal line very indistinct, pale, defined on inner 

 side by slight dark streaks and dentate marks in the interspaces ; 

 a terminal strigiform line. Hind wing pale greyish tinged with 

 brown, the terminal area fuscous brown; a slight discoidal spot, 

 curved postmedial line and fine dark terminal line : cilia brown 

 with an ochreous line at base ; the underside pale, irrorated and 

 suffused with red-brown, an indistinct discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Eastern and Middle States, New York, 3 $, 

 Georgia, Plorida (Doubledcaj), 1 § type arcuata. Exp. 34-44 millim. 



Larva. Head black. Pody uniform, narrowly striped in black 

 and white, 15 black spines to the spiracles ; subventral region 

 reddish with two white lines; cervical shield velvety black ; joints 

 12-13 black with rounded white patches and triangular marks, 

 the second one with quadrangular outline. Poot-plant, Smilax. 

 Larvae are gregarious. — H. G. D. 



2930. Trachea illyrica. 



Noctua ilhjria, Frr. Neue Beitr. vi. pi. 483. f. 2 (1852); Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 175. 

 Hadetia scortea, Herr.-Sehaff. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. 582 (1852). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with black and some grey ; 

 tegular with black medial line ; palpi blackish at sides ; sides of 



