194 NOCTUID^. 



by black, the former with slight white annulus, round, the latter 

 open above and expanding below, with pale patch beyond it ; traces 

 of an irregular medial line oblique from costa to median nervure ; 

 postmedial line defined by greyish on outer side, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, oblique to vein 4, 

 where it is angled, then inwardly oblique, some pale points beyond 

 it on costa and a slight black streak below vein 5 ; subterminal 

 line whitish, with slight pale marks before it below veins 7, 6, 

 angled outwards at vein 6 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of slight black lunules ; cilia fuscous intersected with whitish. 

 Hind wing grey with an ochreous tinge and nearly uniformly 

 suffused with brown, the veins and a fine terminal line dark ; cilia 

 ochreous with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal point and minutely waved 

 postmedial line. 



2 . Greyer without any ochreous tinge. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 S, Nevada, 1 $ type. Exp., S 30, 

 § 38 millim. 



Larva. Head green, brownish tinted. Body uniform, olivaceous . 

 green ; dorsal line white, slightly widened on the segments ; 

 subdorsal and substigmatal lines strongly widened on the 

 segments, the widenings angular, those of the latter green-filled ; 

 lines partly edged with reddish. Food - plant, Adenosioma 

 faaciculatum. — H. G. D. 



2962. Trachea modica. (Plate CXIII. fig. 4.) 



Apamea modica, Gnen. Noct. i. p. 207 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 146. 

 Celsna stihceclens, Wlk. x. 264 (1856). 



Head and thorax purple-brown mixed with grey-white ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegulse Avith 

 black medial line ; crests pale ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; 

 abdomen grey mixed with fuscous. Fore wing pale grey irrorated 

 with brown and suffused in parts with pinkish, especially on inner 

 antemedial area and medial area, the postmedial area whiter; 

 dubbasal line represented by double striae from costa and cell ; 

 a slight black streak above inner margin before the antemedial line, 

 which is indistinctly double, angled outwards below costa, then 

 waved ; claviform short and broad, defined by black ; orbicular and 

 i'eniform defined by black and with whitish centres slightly defined 

 by brown, the former oblique elliptical, open above ; an indistinct 

 waved medial line ; postmedial line indistinctly double, with two 

 prominent black striae from costa, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some minute 

 black streaks beyond it on the veins and some pale points on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by olive-brown on inner 

 and outer sides, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then 

 minutely waved ; a slight black streak beyond it below vein 6 ; 

 a fine waved terminal line. Hind wing pale tinged with ochreous 



