190 NOCTUID.li. 



points; cilia cliequerecl whitish and fuscous. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with fuscous brown especially on terminal area ; a slight 

 discoidal spot and indistinct curved postmedial line ; cilia yellowish 

 white with a diffused fuscous line through them ; the underside 

 whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line with minute dark 

 streaks on the veins. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Walters Station, 1 c? , Arizona, Exp. 

 32 millim. 



2955. Trachea characta. (Plate CXII. fig. 29.) 



Hadena characta, Grote, Can. Bnt. xii. p. 243 (1880); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 143. 



5 . Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous ; frons with 

 lateral black bars ; tegulse with slight blackish medial line ; patagia 

 with some black scales near upper edge ; tarsi blackish ringed with 

 white; abdomen grey-white irrorated with brown, the dorsal 

 crests blackish at tips. Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated 

 with black, the base and medial area tinged with ochreous brown, 

 the ante- and postmedial areas whiter, the terminal area darker 

 except at apex ; a black streak below base of cell; subba sal line 

 represented by a slight dark striga from costa ; antemedial line 

 defined by white on inner side, angled inwards on vein 1, then 

 outwards above inner margin ; claviform strongly defined by black, 

 acute at extremity and extending to postmedial line ; orbicular and 

 reniform white defined by black and with some fuscous in centres, 

 the former narrow, oblique elliptical, the latter constricted at 

 middle ; postmedial line defined by white on outer side, bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to short 

 black streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4. then strongly 

 incurved, some white points beyond it on costa and whitish patch 

 in submedian interspace ; subterminal line white defined on inner 

 side by fuscous and a series of somewhat dentate black marks, and 

 with slight black marks beyond it, angled outwards at vein 7, 

 excurved at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules ; cilia white mixed with black. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused and irrorated with fuscous, the veins and a dis- 

 coidal lunule darker ; a dark terminal line ; cilia white with a dark 

 line through them ; the underside white irrorated with fuscous, 

 a dark discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line with minute 

 black streaks on the veins. 



Hah. U.S.A., Nevada, 1 $ type, Arizona. Exp. 38 millim. 



*2956. Trachea jocasta. (Plate CXII. fig. 30.) 



Hadena jocasta, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 470 (1900) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 11,5. 



$ . Head and thorax grey tinged with fuscous ; patagia with 



