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b^. Fore wing witliout wliite annulus to reiiifonn. 



a^. Foi'e wing strongly suffused with brown s^nciahllis. 



h'^. Fore wing slightly tinged with rufous decepta. 



C-. Fore wing grey slightly tinged with brown. 



a^. Fore wing with the subterminal line white, dentate 



on veins 4, 3 donoiica. 



b^. Fore wing with the subtenuinal line indistinct, not 

 dentate on veins 4, 3. 

 a*. Hind wing with the terminal band pale brownish. 

 a". Fore wing with the antemedial line very 



oblique from costa to subniedian fold an/iea. 



b^. Fore wing with tlie antemedial line more erect 



from eosta to subniedian fold pofitica. 



h^. Hind wing with the terminal band deep fuscous edvardsi. 



1459. Triclioclea U-scripta. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 22.) 



Mamestra IJ-scripta, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 228 (1891) • id Cat 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 119. . • • 



S . Head and thorax grey and fuscous with a brownish tinge ; 

 abdomen grey and fuscous, paler at base. Fore wing yellowish 

 brown slightly irrorated with fuscous ; the costal area and veins 

 fuscous irrorated with white ; subbasal and antemedial lines and 

 clavit'orm obsolete ; orbicular and reniform small, the former hardlv 

 traceable, oblique elliptical, the latter with its upper part verV 

 indistinct, its lower with prominent white U-shaped mark with 

 white streak on median nervure before it ; postmedial line hardly 

 traceable, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some white points on costa beyond it ; a subterminal 

 series of slight dentate dark marks, the terminal area darker • a 

 series of pure white streaks from extremity of veins intcrsectin"-the 

 cilia. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous brown, the veins and 

 termen darker; cilia whitish with a dark line through them inter- 

 sected by a series of white streaks from extremity of veins ; the 

 underside whitish thickly irrorated with large brown scales. 



Fore tarsi with rather long curved claw-like spines on outer side 

 of joints. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado {Bruce), 1 J , California, Sierra Nevada 

 Exp. 38 millim. 



1460. Trichoclea artesta. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 23.) 



Mamcafra artcsfn, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 197. 



6 . Head and thorax pale red mixed with brown and white ; 

 antenna? whitish ; abdomen pale ochreous, ventrally brownish. 

 Fore wing pale red sparsely irrorated with white, more strongly on 

 inner area and costal area beyond middle ; subbasal line indistinct, 

 defined by white on outer side, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold; antemedial line indistinct, defined by white on inner side, 

 waved, angled inwards on the veins ; claviform absent ; orbicular 

 and reniform with white annuli defined by brown, the former 

 minute, round, with brown centre, the latter with white centre 



