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Pronoctua Sra. 
1894, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. XXI, 44 (type, typica Sm.). 
Eyes naked. Palpi upturned, with third joint short and somewhat 
porrected; second joint heavily but rather evenly clothed with scales 
below, not noticeably rough-fringed; third joint smooth-scaled. Front 
smooth. Male antennae ciliate. Mid and hind tibiae spined; fore tibia 
unspined, longer than first tarsal joint, fringed with hair outwardly. Mid 
tarsi with three rows of spines. Thoracic vestiture largely scaly, but with 
some hairs intermixed. No distinct tufting, traces of a metathoracic 
divided tuft. 
Figure 53. Male genitalia of Pronoctua typica Sm. 
Male Genitalia. Clasper moderately broad, with costal portion of 
apex drawn out to a long, curved tip; no corona nor pollex; harpe weak, 
recumbent, subapical, jointed to sacculus by long, curving rod of chitin; 
sacculus moderately strong with a raised chitinous flap near apex. Clavus 
absent. Juxta weak. Uncus thin. Aedoeagus weakly spined apically; 
vesica armed with a long, finger-like cornutus. 
The type of genitalia is not markedly Agrotid, but the present position 
of the genus is as good as any for the present. Only typica Sm. and pyro- 
philoides Harv. are included; it is doubtful if the two are anything more 
than races of a single species. 
