183 



2945. Trachea finitima. (Plate CXII. fig. 21.) 



Apamea finitima, Giien. Noct. i. p. 206 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 134. 



Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with grey and a few black 

 scales ; palpi blackish at sides ; frons with lateral black bars ; 

 patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; tarsi blackish 

 ringed Avith white ; abdomen grey tinged with brown, the dorsal 

 crests blackish. Fore wing grey slightly tinged with rufous, the 

 medial area strongly suffused with rufous ; a strong sinuous black 

 streak below base of cell ; subbasal line indistinctly double, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double, 

 waved, excurved below the cell ; claviform short, defined by black; 

 orbicular and reniform large with whitish annuli defined by black, 

 the former rather oblique elliptical, the latter sometimes slightly 

 angled inwards on median nervure; an indistinct medial line, oblique 

 from costa to median nervure, then waved and incurved; postmedial 

 line indistinctly double filled in with grey, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale slightly 

 defined by brown on inner side, excurved below vein 7, excurved 

 and minutely waved at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules. Hind wing grey tinged with brown, the veins and terminal 

 area suffused with fuscous ; a terminal series of black striaj ; cilia 

 ochreous white with a dark line through them ; the underside 

 ochreous grey, the costal area irrorated with brown, a sliglit dis- 

 coidal lunula, curved postmedial line, and traces of diffused sub- 

 terminal band. 



Hah. Canada, Ottawa {Fletcher), 1 cJ , 1 2 ; U.S.A., Northern, 

 Middle, and Eastern States, Massachusetts, Beverly (Pac/tarc/!, Burg), 

 2 c? , 3 $ , New York, Schenectady (Lintner), 1 J , 3 2 , Oregon 

 ( WalsingJiam), 1 $ , Colorado. E.vp. 40-48 millim. 



2946. Trachea basilinea. 



Nociua basilinea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 78 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 183 (1787) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 166. f. 1 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett.. 



Noct. f 427; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 15, pi. 101. f. 4; Err. Beitr. pi. 29 ; 



Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 5 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 116 ; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 174. 

 Noctua nehulosa, View. Schmett. ii. p. 55, pi. 1. f. 6 (1789). 

 Hadena cinifacta, Grses. Bei-l. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 334 (nee Grrote). 

 Hadena grisescens, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 42. 

 Hadena basistriga, Staud. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 439 (1892). 



S . Head and thorax rufous to grey-brown ; palpi blackish at 

 sides ; frons with lateral black bars ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; 

 abdomen grey suffused with brown or rufous, the dorsal crests 

 blackish at tips. Pore wing rufous to grey-brown tinged with 

 rufous ; the median area sometimes slightly darker ; a sinuous black 

 streak below base of cell ; subbasal line minutely waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold; antemedial line black defined by whitish on 



