3()6 NOCTUIDiK. 



striated with brown ; the lines obsolete ; orbicular and reiiiform 

 large, confluent, slightly paler and not defined by black. Hind 

 wing uniform fuscous ; the underside paler irrorated with fuscous, 

 a large discoidal spot. 



Hah. U.S.A., California. Ex^. 30 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



1670. Stretchia saxea. (Plate LXXXYIII. fig. 19.) 

 Xylina saxea, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 537. 



2 . Head and thorax white irrorated with black ; sides of palpi 

 and frous tinged with rufous ; tegulae and patagia edged with 

 black ; prothoracic crest tipped with rufous ; tibiae and tarsi dark 

 brown ; abdomen red-brown. Pore wing silvery grey with a 

 slight yellowish tinge and irrorated with purple-brown ; antemedial 

 area obliquely suffused with brown, and with black streaks on the 

 veins ; a black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line represented 

 by a dark streak on costa ; antemedial line indistinct, irregularly 

 waved, oblique from costa to submedian fold ; claviform large, 

 defined by black below, and with black fascia from its extremity to 

 termen with brown suffusion above it ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, pale, very ill-defined, the former oblique and nearly conjoined 

 to latter at lower extremity ; postmedial line indistinct, waved, 

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

 only defined by the area beyond it being dark except at apex and 

 tornus, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, crossed 

 by short black streaks above and below vein 5, the lower further 

 from termen ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing 

 red-brown ; the underside paler rufous, with some dark irroration 

 on costal and terminal areas, a black discoidal lunule. 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama {Pnjer), 1 5 type. Exp. 42 millim. 



Genus MOERISONIA. 



Type. 



Morrisonia, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 53 (18/ 4) sectilis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with hair, the 3rd short ; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded; tegulas produced 

 to a slight dorsal ridge ; thorax clothed with hair and scales, and with divided 

 ridge-like crest; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal 

 crests on basal segments. Foi-e wing with the cilia crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areole; IJ from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle," 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base. 



Sect. I. Antenna; of male bipectinate with short branches, the apical part 

 ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines well defjned. 

 a. Fore wing without dark shade from base through sub- 

 median interspace. 

 «\ Fore wing with the postmedial line not angled inwards 

 in submedian fold. 



