474 NOCTUIDJU. 



middle, a small discoidal spot, traces of a strongly curved post- 

 medial line, a terminal line except towards apex expanding in 

 submedian interspace ; cilia dull orange. 



Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, Grant Co., Camp Watson ( Walsingliam), 

 15 <$ , 4 5 , California, Sierra Nevada. Exp. 23 millim. 



4958. Annaphila danistica. (Plate CXLVII. fig. 2.) 



Annaphila danistica, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 151, pi. iv. f. 7 

 (1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 297. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with grey ; 

 tarsi brown ringed Avith whitish. Fore wing dark brown suffused 

 and irrorated with grey, the veins with slight dark streaks ; sub- 

 basal line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to submediau fold ; 

 antemedial line indistinctly doubled, waved, oblique ; orbicular and 

 reniform greyish faintly defined by brown, narrow, oblique 

 elliptical ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 double filled in with greyish, excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 sinuous ; an indistinct sinuous subterrainal line ; a terminal brown 

 line ; cilia with dark line at base followed by a fine white line. 

 Hind wing orange, the basal and inner areas suffused with grey- 

 brown ; an oblique black discoidal lunule ; a sinuous blackish post- 

 medial line incurved below vein 2 and obsolescent towards costa ; a 

 black terminal line ; cilia grey-brown with fine whitish line at middle 

 and whitish tips. Underside of fore wing pale yellowish irrorated 

 with brown, the costa suffused with brown and grey to postmedial 

 line, orbicular and reniform yellowish-white patches with elliptical 

 black centres and black patch between them, the former quadrate, 

 the latter elliptical, a curved brown postmedial line with pale 

 yellow band beyond it, the terminal area brown irrorated with 

 grey ; hind wing greyish yellow irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal bar, a cuvved slightly waved postmedial line and a 

 terminal line. 



$ . Fore wing with the lines and stigmata clearly defined by 

 grey ; hind wing with the postmedial line much stronger and not 

 obsolescent towards costa. 



Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, Grant Co., Camp Watson ( Wokingham), 

 7 6 , 5 $ , Nevada, 1 S , 2 $ type, California, Havilah, 1 $ . 

 Exp. cS 28, 2 22 millim. 



4959. Annaphila mera. (Plate CXLVII. fig. 3.) 



Annaphila mera, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 277 (1875) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 297. 



S . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with grey-white ; tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen olive-brown, the ventral 

 surface whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing black-brown 

 tinged with olive and suffused with grey ; subbasal line represented 

 by a blackish striga from costa ; antemedial line blackish slightly 



