90 NOCTUID.E. 



curved, defined on inner side by a series of dentate fuscous marks 

 and by the area beyond it being rather darlcer ; a terminal series of 

 small dark lunules ; cilia wbitish, with a dark line through them. 

 Hind "wing whitish suffused with brown ; the underside white 

 slightly irrorated with brown, a brown dJscoidal point and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 3 $ type, San Francisco (Stretch), 3 S , 

 1 ? . Exp., J 40-44, ? 46-52 miUim. 



Sect. V. Antennae of male cihated. 



A. Prothorax with divided crest. 



a. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. 



a'. Fore wing with the sublerminal line dentate ou 



veins 4, 8, and forming a distinct ^-va&rk. 



c^. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 



conjoined by a black streak in subinedian fold. 



c?. Fore wing with pale dentate mark beyond the 



clavifonn. 



a*. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous 



white 'peregrina. 



i*. Fore wing with the ground-colour purplish 



grey con tigua. 



P. Fore wing without pale dentate mark beyond 

 the claviform. 

 (iK Fore wing with the postmedial area dis- 

 tinctly paler tban the medial area. 

 a^. Fore wing with the basal streak broad... grandis. 

 ¥. Fore wing with the basal streak narrow, w-latinum. 

 b*. Fure wing with the postmedial area hardly 

 paler than the medial area, 

 fl*. Fore wing not tinged with purplish red . invalida. 

 P. Fore wing tinged with purplish red. 

 a". Fore wing with the snbterminal line 



wliite thalassina. 



P. Fore wing with the subterminal line 



grey suhjuncta. 



b^. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 



not conjoined by a black streak in submedian 



fold. 



a^. Fore wing with the areas at base of costa, 



beyond the reniform, and the postmedial 



area bright rufous nevadm. 



P. Fore wing more uniform brown. 



a*. Fore wing with whitish annuli to stigmata, altaica. 

 P. Fore wing without whitish auuuli to stig- 

 mata, 

 a'. Fore wing with the subterminal line 



wliite suasa. 



P. Fore wing with the subterminal line 



grey aliena. 



c^. Fore wing ochreous grey consanguis, \a.r. 



b^. Fore wing without distinct ^-mark on subterminal 

 line. 

 a^. Fore wing with the terminal area not darker 



than the ground-colour passa. 



b-. Fore wing with the terminal area darker than 



the ground-colour , ptochica. 



