2940. Trachea indocilis. (Plate CXII. fig. 17.) 



Xylophasia indocilis, Wlk. ix. 178 (1856); Smith, Cat. Noet. N. km. 

 p. 132. 



Head and thorax grej' tiuged \Tith rufous and mixed with black , 

 palpi blackish at sides ; irons with lateral black bars ; tegulas with 

 strong medial black line ; patagia black edged with greyish above ; 

 tibise and tarsi blackish ringed with pale reddish ; abdomen pale 

 grey-brown, the ventral surface tinged with purplish pink and 

 irrorated with black. Pore wing brownish grey tinged with 

 purplish red, the medial area suffused with purplish from below 

 costa to submedian fold ; a sinuous black streak below base of 

 cell ; subbasal line indistinctly double, waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; a diffused black streak above inner margin before the 

 antemedial line, which is indistinctly double, angled inwards in 

 cell, then excurved and angled inwards on vein 1 and to inner 

 margin ; claviform small or moderate, defined by black, acute at 

 extremity and with strong black streak below it to postmedial line, 

 towards which it is diffused above ; orbicular and reuiform pale 

 with slight whitish annuli defiued by black, the former somewhat 

 oblique elliptical ; an indistinct waved medial line oblique from 

 costa to vein 2 ; postmedial line indistinct, with double black spots 

 at costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, then dentate and pro- 

 duced to black and white points on the veins, shghtly incurved at 

 discal fold and strongly below vein 4, some white points beyond it 

 on costa ; subtermiual line whitish, slightly defined by brown on 

 inner side, excurved below vein 7 and dentate to near termen at 

 veins 4, 3, with black patches beyond it at discal and submedian 

 folds ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered 

 blackish and grey. Hind wing brownish grey suffused with 

 fuscous, the terminal area darker; a discoidal lunule and curved 

 postmedial line ; some grey on termen between veins 5 and 1 ; 

 a dark terminal line ; cilia ochreous white with series of dark 

 points except towards tovnus ; the underside brownish white 

 irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidal point, sinuous postmedial 

 line, and diffused subterminal baud. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary {Wolley-Docl), 3 S ; U.S.A., 

 Eastern and Middle States, jSIew York {Packard), 1 $ , Trenton 

 Falls (Doubleday), 1 J , 4 $ type, Evans Center (Grote), 1 J , 2 5 . 

 Uxj>. 40-42 millim. 



2941, Trachea obscura, 



Nociua obscura, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 189 (1809); Stepb, 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. ii. p. 184. 

 NoGtua gemina, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Hoct. f. 482 (1818) ; Fry. Neue 



Beitr. i. p. 50, pi. 28 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 175. 

 Nociua remissa, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 1, p. 346 (1825): Hiibn. Eur, 



Schmett., Noct. f. 423; Frr, Neue Beitr, i. p. 52, pi, 29; Staph. 111. 



Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 181. 



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