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sides ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous, whitish below. 

 Fore wing ochreous white, suft'uscd and irrorated with yellow-brown; 

 the subbasal line repreaented bj- two black strice from costa ; ante- 

 medial line represented by two black striaj from costa, then ill- 

 defined, double, irregularly dentate ; claviform small, defined by 

 black ; orbicular and renitbrm defined by black, tbo former round, 

 the latter with fuscous centre ; an indistinct waved medial line 

 arising from a black striga on costa ; postmedial line with double 

 black strias at costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, ex- 

 curved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line white, minutely 

 waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined 

 on inner side by fuscous suffusion and small indistinct dentate 

 blackish marks, the area beyond it suffused with fuscous ; a i)romi- 

 nent terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins 

 and terminal area suffused with fuscous ; the underside with the 

 costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with fuscous, a prominent 

 postmedial series of black points. 



The tarsi with curved claw-like spines on first two joints, the 

 one at extremity of Ist joint large. 



Hab. U.S.A., Utah in Coll. Schaus, Arizona, Phoenix (Kunze), 

 1 c? , 1 2 ; Mexico, N". Sonora (Morrison), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exjy. 30-34 millim. 



1467. Trichoclea demotica. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 28.) 



Mamestra demotica, Piing. Iris, sv. p. 148, pi. v. ff. 8, 9 (1902). 



(S . Head and thorax grej' mixed with dark brown ; tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen grey irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing 

 grey tinged with brown ; the subbasal and antetnedial lines waved, 

 double, filled in with greyish, tlie former extending to vein 1 ; clavi- 

 form small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform moderate, 

 defined by black, the former round; an indistinct medial line oblique 

 from costa to lower angle of cell, where it is angled ; postmedial 

 line defined by grey on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line 

 white, defined on inner side by dentate black marks between veins 

 6 and 2, excurved at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules ; cilia with fine pale line at base. 

 Hind wing grey-white tinged with brown ; a diffused fuscous sub- 

 terminal band ; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal spot, slight curved postmedial line, and 

 terminal series of small black lunules. 



Ilah. W. TtJKKESTAN, Turcomania, 1 c? ; E. Turkestan, Aksu, 

 type t in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 34 millim. 



1468. Trichoclea antica. (Plate LXXXIY. fig. 29.) 



Trichoclea antica. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 116 (1891) ; id. 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. li()9. 



Head and thorax brownish white slightly irrorated with fuscous; 

 tarsi banded with black; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing 

 VOL. V. B 



