LEPIDOPTERA HF.TEROCERA. 1029 



Allied to the Noctuites. 



Body moderately stout. Proboscis short. Pa^pi slender, 

 pubescent, extending beyond the head; second joint more than 

 twice the length of the first; third lanceolate, nearly half the length 

 of the second. Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs slender; hind tibiae with four long apical spurs. Wings 

 moderately broad. Fore wings straight along the costa, almost 

 angular at the tips; exterior border oblique and slightly convex ; 

 three inferior veins; first and second contiguous at the base; third 

 remote. Male. — Palpi ascending. Antennas minutely pectinated 

 to beyond five-sixths of the length, more than half the length of the 

 body. Female. — Palpi porrect, shorter than those of the male. An- 

 tennae simple, less than half the length of the body. 



I. Edema albierons. 



Cristata ; alee subcinerece ; anticce striga marginali angulosa nivea 

 nubeculcB inserta nigra. 



Phalaena albifrons, Abbot §• Smith, Nat. Hist. Lep. Ins. Georgia, ii. 

 159, pi. 80. 



Male. Hoary. Palpi brown above. Thorax with a tawny 

 band near the fore border. Fore wings with various small brown 

 marks, white along the costa for half the length from the tips ; the 

 outline of this white part is very irregular, and the adjoining part of 

 the wing behind it is dark brown ; a row of short undulating 

 blackish streaks along the exterior border. Length of the body 



6 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. 



a, b. Trenton Falls, New York. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Female. Cinereous. Fore wings thinly covered with black 

 flecks ; a brown zigzag band at a little before one-third of the 

 length, and extending from the costa to rather beyond half the 

 breadth of the wing; a large white patch on the fore half of the 

 breadth of the wing between the first band and a second which is 

 brown, oblique, complete, and slightly undulating ; beyond the 

 laUer there are two slight whitish oblique bands, the first incom- 

 plete, the second marginal and intersected by a blackish baud. 

 Hind wings pale brown, partially and very thinly flecked with 

 brown, with a brown discal spot, and with a brown oblique slightly 

 undulating band, which is composed of flecks, and corresponds to 

 the second brown band of the fore wings. Length of the body 



7 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



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