200 



N-OCTUID^. 



with fuscous, a black discoidal spot, indistinct waved postmedial 

 line and traces of diffused subterininal band. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary (WoUey-Dod), cotype t 6 in 

 Coll. J. B. Smith. Kvj). 40 millim. 



*2972. Trachea espumosa. (Plate CXIII. fig. 14.) 



liurois e»p'umosa, Dogn. Ann, Soc. Ent. Belg. xli. p. 246 (1897). 



cJ . Head and thorax pale reddish brown ; palpi blackish ; frons 

 bright pink ; front part of thorax largely mixed with black ; pectus 

 with the hair bright pink ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen pale 

 grey-brown, the dorsal crests rather darker. Fore wing red-brown 

 irrorated with black, the terminal area greyish ; the subbasal line 

 represented by black points below costa and cell ; the antemedial 

 line interrupted, double, waved, connected with the postmedial line 

 by a diffused black fascia in submedian fold, with a black striga 

 from its upper edge representing the extremity of claviform ; 

 orbicular an ill-defined yellowish spot ; reniform very indistinct, 

 with a yellow spot with points above and below it on its outer 

 edge ; a waved medial black shade angled outwards to lower angle 

 of cell ; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal 

 line formed by a series of dentate blackish marks, somewhat 

 excurved below costa and at middle ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules. Hind wing reddish brown, slightly paler towards 

 base ; two small dark spots on veins 2 and 1 towards termen ; cilia 

 white at tips; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot, irregularly waved post- 

 medial line and traces of a subterminal line. 



Hah. EcxjADOR, Loja, typef S in Coll, Dognin. Exp, 44 millim. 



2973. Trachea opposita. 



Mamestra opposita, Wlk. xxxii. 667 (1865) ; Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. 

 p. 95, pi. 162. f. 12; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 209. 



Head and thorax black slightly mixed with rufous and grey ; 

 palpi black above ; frons with lateral black bars ; tarsi black with 

 whitisli rings ; abdomen rufous suffused with black and with some 

 grey hair at base. Fore wing rufous, almost wholly suff'used with 

 fuscous black and irrorated with black : subbasal line double, black, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double, 

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

 orbicular denned by black, narrow, oblique elliptical; reniform 

 defined by black and with pale rufous spot on its outer edge ; 

 traces of a waved black medial line, oblique from costa to below 

 cell; postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, then 

 waved, oblique to vein 3 near subterminal line, then incurved, 

 some pale rufous points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 represented by a series of small pale rufous spots, defined at middle 



