447 



Si/no2>xii< of (lie. Specien. 



I'oro wings broad ; hind wings full, deeply serrate on flie entire onter edge //. lalifuaciaria 



P'ore wings subt'ak-ite, long; hind wings partly serrate //, iifiiliiiiii. 



Hkmkropiula latikasciaria Packard. Plufc 11, fig. 28. 



JJrmiropliila hili/nmaria Paeii., Pme. Host. Soc. Xat. Hist., xvi, Xi. IfTl. 



1 <?. — CM" iiiediiiiii size; aiiti'mi;v hroadlv pectinated; liiiid \viiii>s nmiided, 

 fuller than in If. iinild/iii and more deeply serrated, the entire edge being so. 

 Pxidy and wings pale ash: front with a lonnd dark spot : palpi with the third 

 joint black. Hind edire of protliorax and hinder edge ol' the l)asal segments 

 ot" the abtloinen with a black iiand. i'dre wings reddish-ash, \\itli a broad, 

 curved, basal, l)la(d<ish btmd ; onter line slii{htl}' oi^licpie ; straight on the inner 

 edge, curved inward in the middle of the wing, thence; going straight to the 

 costa ; this portion ot' the line is rei»resenled b\ three or tour vemdar dots, 

 tli(-' costal one be"."Ji); the kirgest, while the postiMior two-thirds of the line is 

 bordered externally by two diti'iise, parallel, broad lines, the whole making a 

 broad band. Costal edge sptsckled with <lark ash. Outer edge scalloped, with 

 a l)lack point between each scallop. Hind wings concoloroiis with the fore 

 wings; two parallel slightly-wavi'd lines; beyond the middle of the wing a 

 very distinct, nearly straight, blackish line, with a supplementary brown shade 

 beyontk A .subinarginal broad shade. A black line t()llo\\s the scallops. 

 Fringe pale ash. Beneath uniformly pale; costa with transverse dark strigte ; 

 the outer band forms a smoky shade beneath, and on the hind wings a smoky 

 line. Legs ash-colored; two anterior pairs ot tibitc and tarsi broadly banded 

 with ijlackisli. 



Length of" body, 0.60 ; fore wing, 0.78 ; expanse of wings, 1.50 inches. 



California (Edwards); Sanzalito, Cak, September 28 (Behrens). 



Hemerophila unitaria Herrich-Schaefler. Plate 11, fig. 29. 



Hemerophila uititaria H.-Sch., Samml. Exot. Schui., -lli, lig. S04, 1800-56. 

 Gueu., Phal. i, 219, 1S57. 

 Walk.. List Lep. Hut. Br. Mus., xxi, ;.il7, 4SG, 18C0. 



4 J and 1 9. — Body and wings whitish-ash; head brown in front, a 

 whitish line just in front of the antenna:? ; vertex whitish. Thorax whitish, 

 with a transverse brown line on the front edge of the protliorax. Fore wing.s 

 with two black linear lines, very oblique, not siiiuuus, and scalloped, the scal- 

 lops very shallow; inner line curved outward below the costa, parallel with 



