47H 



other species described; iind in our species, llie usual line on llic hind wings 

 \s WAUiluiX. i\\)\)V(rM-\\\\iiX Ojn.'<fIiogi(ijj//s in Ihiit res|pccl. 'I'hr nude aii^enn;p 

 iii'e very i)r()adly pectinated, tiie hianclies siuhh'nly shoitenini,^ on the (uiler 

 quarter, the tip l)ein<i' (ilit'orni : (he I'enndc antenn.-e are nuxh'rateix' pecti- 

 nated, tile tip heinij- lililorni. 'idie hind wings are not so produced and 

 roinuh'd toward the iipex as in ^iiitcpionc, tliough more so tiian in Opistha- 

 graptis; mesial tooth shghtly marked. 



The head is yeUow, with rcihlish-pinlv orbits and palpi. Body 

 yellow, and winus ot" tiie same color, the hind wings beinu' unmarUed, a 

 little paler. 'I'he tore wings with a distinct diseal dot and a single, oblicpie, 

 outer, scalloped line, going ol)liquely from the outer (puirter ol' the unwv edge 

 to the costa just before the apc.x ; beyond this line, the wing is more or less 

 stained with brown; the fringe is yellow, slightly stained with dark brown 

 l)elow the ape.x; the under side of tlu^ wings is sparsely scattered with 

 minute lirown scales. Beneath are two subapieal lines, forming a v; the 

 iVinge is i)rown, and the wings more speckled than above; diseal dots larger 

 than above. 



The female dilfers in its much larger siz(% and in the inner line IxMug 

 present, Ibrming an unusually broad, difl'use, brown band, inlerrupled l)y the 

 veins and angulated in the median space; the outer edge of the wing reddish- 

 brown beyond the oblique, scalloped line, the wing becoming more yellowish 

 on the edge, and the fringe dark brown from tln^ apex to the median angle. 

 The scalloped line re-appears distinctly beneath ; diseal dot large ; several 

 other brown tlecks arc; scattered over the middle of the wing. 



Length of body, 0.50; of fore wing, (f , 0.70, 9, 0.75; expanse of wings, 

 l.()0 inches. 



California (I'^dwards, Behrens). 



Dedicated to Mr. Henry Edwards, who has i)een the tirst to discover 

 the genus in North America. 



SICYA GuentV Plate f), (ig. 14. 



Siaja Gueu., I'lial., i, 101, IS.'ST. 



Walli., List Lej). Het. Br. JIiis., xx, 13^, 1860. 



Male antenna' not very heavily pectinated: entiicly simple in the female. 

 Front of the head rather narrow, moderately fidl. i'alpi slender, j)orrcct, 

 extending as far as the front. Fore wings with the costa slightly convex, 



