30 xo<TriD.£. 



with red. Fore wing ochreous irrorated with red ; subbasal line 

 absent; antemcdial line fine, whitish, evenly curved; claviform and 

 orbicular absent ; reniform a narrow white lunule defined by black 

 scales ; the veins of medial area slightly irrorated with black ; 

 postmedial line fine, whitish, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterrninal line pale, defined on inner side by a dark shade at 

 costa, then by a series of points in the interspaces ; a fine brown 

 terminal line. Hind wing whitish tinged with red, somewhat 

 more deeply on terminal area ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with red. 



Hob. U.S.A., California, Alameda, Mt. Schasta Distr. Exp. 28- 

 34 millim. This species is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing 

 from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



4325. Apamea erepta. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 24.) 



Gortyna erepta, Grote, Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. vi. p. 2ti7 

 (1881) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 175. 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; sides of palpi 

 and irons with some dark brown scales ; pro- and metathoracic 

 crests tipped with dark brown ; abdomen ochreous with dill used 

 lateral purple -brown stripes. Fore wing ochreous yellow irrorated 

 with rufous, especially on costal half, the veins slightly streaked 

 with brown ; subbasal line diffused, rufous, oblique from costa to 

 median nervure ; antemedial Hue red-brown, oblique from costa to 

 submedian fold, then waved ; claviform represented by an oblique 

 rufous striga at its extremity ; orbicular with slight whitish 

 annulus defined by diffused rufous ; reniform a white lunule 

 defined by dark brown, diffused on inner side ; postmedial line 

 red-brown, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; subterrninal line rufous, very indistinct and interrupted, 

 excurved at vein 7 ; a fine red-brown terminal line ; cilia yellow 

 tipped with red-brown. Hind wing pale yellow, the terminal area 

 slightly irrorated with red- brown; a slight brownish discoidal 

 lunule, faint diffused curved postmedial line and slight terminal 

 line from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal and 

 terminal areas slightly irrorated with red-brown, a slight discoidal 

 lunule and diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hub. U.S.A., Kansas, Douglas Co. (Snow), 1 £ type. Exp. 36 

 millim. 



Genus ACHATODES. 



Type. 

 Achatodes, Guen. Noct. i. p. 13:; (1852) zece. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to slightly 

 beyond frons, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with hair, the 3rd short ; 

 frons with large tuft of hair and pointed corneous process; eyes large, round; 



