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margin ; postmedial line double filled in with grey, benfc outwards 

 below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to double black 

 points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, faintly 

 defined by brown on inner side, oblique towards costa, then minutely 

 waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area 

 beyond it suffused with reddish except at apex ; a terminal series of 

 minute black lunules ; cilia pale at base, brown at tips. Hind 

 wing grey suftused with brown ; cilia pale with a brown line 

 through them ; the underside grey-white irrorated Avith brown, 

 a fuscous discoidal lunule and trace of a curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. perhellis. Fore wing uniformly suffused with grey-brown 

 and rufous without the pale grey on inner and postmedial areas. 



Hah. Canada, St. Martin's Falls, Albany R.(5ara5^!o?^), 1 9 tj'pe, 

 New Brunswick {Mrs. Nicholl), 1 $ , {Norman), 1 c? , Ontario, Ottawa 

 {Saunders), 1 $ , Alberta, Galgary ( WoUey-Bod), 4 c? , 7 5 ; U.S.A., 

 Northern, Eastern, Middle and Central States, New York, Evans 

 Center {Grote), 1 r? ,3 $ ,ty])es c/ent His and perbellis, Lewis Co. {Hill), 

 IS. ^a;p. 32-34 millim. 



Genus MACRO NOCTUA. 



Type. 

 Macronoctua, Grote, 6th Eept. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 27 (1874) ontista. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturued, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd short • 

 frons smooth with tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of female cih'ated ; 

 thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, theprothorax with sharp triangular 

 crest, the metathorax with divided crest ; tibiaj moderately fringed with hair • 

 abdomen with some rough hair at base and dorsal crest at base only. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and strongly 

 crenulate ; the cell clothed with long hair on underside ; veins 3 and 6 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10, anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 6 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ' 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



3269. Macronoctua onusta. 



Macronoctua onusta, Grote, 6th RejDt. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 27 (1874) • Smith 

 Oat. Koct. N. Am. p. 163. 



5 . Head and thorax fuscous black irrorated with a few white 

 scales ; abdomen greyish suffused with fuscous black, the dorsum 

 paler except at extremity and with fine dorsal black streak. Fore 

 wing ochreous suffused with red-brown, the base, costal and terminal 

 areas suffused with fuscous black ; subbasal line represented by a 

 black striga from costa and point below cell ; antemedial line slight 

 double, obsolete from below costa to median nervure, angled out- 

 wards in submedian fold and strongly above inner margin, ano-led 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform minute, defined by black ; orbicular 

 elongate elliptical, defined by black ; reniform very large, defined 

 by black, strongly below, strongly angled inwards on median nervure • 

 an indistinct diffused curved medial line ; postmedial line double' 



