HYSSIA. 287 



1540. Hyssia disticha. (riate LXXXV. fig. 30.) 



Caradrina disticha, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 217 (1874) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 130. 



J . Head and thorax grey slightly mixed with brown ; palpi 

 with some black at sides ; abdomen ochreous grey irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing grey sparsely irrorated with brown, the area 

 beyond the medial line suffused with brown ; subbasal line almost 

 obsolete ; antemedial line indistinct, double, oblique from costa to 

 submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform and 

 orbicular obsolete ; reniform yellowish at middle and with grey 

 annulus defined by brown ; medial line oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then more erect ; postmedial line double filled in 

 with grey, excurved from costa to vein 5, then incurved ; subter- 

 minal line hardly traceable, greyish, with a dark brown bar before 

 it from costa, then a point and a few scattered scales, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 dark points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia paler ; the under- 

 side whitish thickly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule 

 and traces of curved postmedial line. 



Hub. U.S.A., Texas, 1 S type. Exp. 32 millim. 



1541. Hyssia dilecta. (Plate LXXXV. fig, 31.) 



Perigea dilecta, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 123 (1884) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 154. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and tinged with flesh- 

 colour ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen greyish ochreous irrorated 

 with brown. Fore wing pale grey with a purplish-flesh tinge and 

 slight brown irroration ; subbasal and antemedial lines indistinct, 

 waved, the former from costa to submedian fold, the latter oblique; 

 claviform and orbicular absent ; medial line oblique from costa to 

 median nervure, then angled inwards in submedian fold, some 

 brownish suftusion beyond it ; reniform rufous in male, greyish in 

 female, defined by black and with some white points round its 

 lower half; postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards beloAV costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the costa beyond it fuscous with 

 some pale points on it ; subterminal line indistinct, greyish with 

 some slight black points on its inner side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle ; some slight black points 

 on termen. Hind wing brown with an ochreous tinge, paler 

 towards base ; the \inderside pale, the costal and terminal areas 

 tinged and irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, l^, Grand Junction (OsZar), 3d" , 1 $ , 

 Arizona. Exp. 34 millim. 



