592 NOCTTTIDiE. 



below veius 4 and 3, terminating at vein 2 ; a terminal series of 

 black strise slightly defined by white on inner side ; cilia rufou.s. 

 Hind wing uniform black-brown ; the underside with the termen 

 greyish with terminal series of black striee. 



Huh, U.S.A., Morida {Douhleday), '6 S type. Exp. 26- 

 28 millim. 



Genus FAGITANA. 



Type. • 



Fagitana, Wlk. xxxii. 645 (1865) littera. 



Fseicdolimacodes, Grote, Pr. Ac. Philad. 1874, p. 212 littera. 



Virgo, Staud. Eoin. Mem. vi. p. 467 (1892) datanidia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint; reacliing vertex 

 of head and moderately fringed vvitli scales in front, the 3rd rather long ; 

 frons smooth; eyes large, round ; antennse of male serrate; thorax clothed 

 with hair and hair-like scales and without crests ; tibia moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen witli dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex 

 rectangular, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 

 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 ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the reniform represented by a white bar bent 



inwards on median nervure littera. 



B. Fore wing with the renifurm represented by a rufous bar 



defined on each side by pink datanidia. 



3461. Fagitana littera. 



Leiicania littera, Guen. Noct. i. p. 71 (1852); Grote, 111. Essay, p. 41; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 356. 

 Fatigana liwidata, Wlk. xxxii. 645 (1865). 

 Pseudolimacodes niveicostams, Grote, Proc. Ac. K"at. Sci. Philad. 1874, 



p. 212. 



Head bright nifous ; antennse, thorax, and abdomen whitish 

 tinged with rufous. Fore wing whitish tinged with rufous, the 

 costal half to beyond the cell, a diffused medial band, and the 

 terminal area bright rufous leaving the costal edge white to near 



Fig. 151. — Fagitana littera, (j*. \. 



apex ; antemedial line rufous defined by white on outer side, 

 obliquely curved ; a white discoidal bar curved inwards on extremity 

 of median nervure ; postmedial line unusually near termen, rufous 

 defined by white sufiusion on inner side, obliquely curved ; a whitish 

 terminal line; cilia deep rufous at base, whitish at tips. Hind 



