110 
JOHN B. SMITH. 
The Placer County specimen in the United States National Mu- 
seum is the smallest of the three, and is also most obscurely marked. 
It lacks the brick-red shades altogether, the gray is more sordid and 
even, and the maculation is less definite than in the other specimens. 
The male antemue are rather lengthily serrated, almost pectinated, 
differing from both the j)receding species in this character as well as 
in the median shade, which is here not at all prominent, narrow and 
sinuate, not touching either of the ordinary s[)Ots nor the t. p. line. 
Apainea liiiiata u. sp. — Ground color a powdery reddish ocher. Head 
and thorax innuaculate. Primaries with basal line apparently wanting. T. a. 
line narrow, vvhitish, evenly outcurved. T. p. narrow, whitish, even, but little 
outcurved over cell and rigidly oblique below. S. t. line marked by a j)receding 
costal shade and a series of interspaceal black dots; a brown line at base of 
fringes. Claviform and orbicular obsolete. Reniform a narrow white lunule, 
margined by black scales at the end of the cell. The veins, through the median 
space, are more or less evidently black powdered Secondaries very pale cop- 
pery, somewhat more dusky outwardly. Beneath pale, with reddish powderings. 
Expands l.Ol — 1.12 inches; 26 — 28 mm. 
Hab. — Alameda, Cal., iu June; Mt. Shasta District, Cal. (Ed- 
wards). 
15 oth sexes are before me. The species is allied to parpnripennis 
Grt., but the ground color is entirely different, and there is not the 
least chance of confusing the species. The male antennae are later- 
ally tufted with short bristly hair, but not serrate. 
Orthosia disUeha Morr. has hairy eyes, and is an Ulolonche Smith. 
Tt comes close to U. fasciata in type of maculation as ivell as wing 
form ; but besides the difference in color the contrasts are nowhere as 
defined, and the reniform is not discolorous, though it is well defined 
and of the .same form. 
The male genitalia agree perfectly in type with the species which 
I have already included in this genus (pnodesta, fascuda, niveignttata) . 
This seems to be oue of the cases where the sexual structure is of 
generic, rather than specific importance, the agreement being close 
in type and in details, while the ornamental characters are widely 
variant. 
Telesilla carneola n. sp. — Head and thorax a carueous or vinous gray, 
powdery, apparently without distinctive ornamentation, but the specimen is 
imperfect iu this respect. Primaries with a fine vinous red ground color, more 
or less evidently gray powdered, median space with a deep, blackish brown 
shading. Terminal space deep umber-brown. Basal line very indistinct, nar- 
row. composed of whitish atoms. T. a. line narrow, thread like, [lowdery, gray, 
slightly outcurved. T. }i. hue vague, powdery, defined rather by the difference 
