ANNA PHIL A. 477 



at middle and with some whitish beyond it, a brown terminal line, 

 cilia brown with whitish lino at base. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 1 $ type. Exp. 20 millim. 



4963. Annaphila germana. (Plato CXLVII. fig. 7.) 



Annaplula germana, H. Edw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 138 (1875) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 296. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with grey- 

 white ; antennee ringed with white ; tarsi brown ringed with white. 

 Fore wing brown tinged with grey and in parts with rufous ; the 

 basal area with a few greenish-black scales ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a greenish-black striga from costa ; antemedial line 

 greenish black, oblique, sinuous ; reniform an oblique lunule defined 

 by white ; the postmedial area obliquely suffused with white, the 

 postmedial line indistinctly double, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, incurved at discal fold and approximated to reniform, oblique 

 from vein 4 to submedian fold, then excurved, some white points 

 beyond it on costa,; an oblique greenish-black fascia from apex; 

 Bubterminal line whitish slightly defined by black on inner side, 

 angled inwards at discal and submedian folds and excurved at 

 middle ; a series of black stria? just before termen ; a fine blackish 

 terminal line slightly defined by whitish on inner side ; cilia 

 blackish with fine white line at base and whitish tips. Hind wing 

 orange, the base and inner margin black- brown, the latter inter- 

 rupted by an orange striga towards tornus; an antemedial oblique 

 waved black line ; a black discoidal lunule ; a terminal black band, 

 its inner edge slightly angled inwards at discal fold and excurved 

 at median nervulesand below submedian fold; cilia black chequered 

 with white from below apex to vein 2. Underside of fore wing 

 orange, the costa brown except towards base, an oblique slightly 

 sinuous brown median band, a narrow discoidal lunule, a white 

 postmedial spot on costa with some points beyond it, a brown 

 terminal band with sinuous inner edge expanding towards apex 

 and with white subterminal spot on costa and yellowish spots below 

 it and above tornus, cilia intersected with white except at base ; 

 bind wing orange Avith some blackish at base, an oblique waved 

 antemedial black band, a black discoidal lunule, a brown line from 

 middle of costa, strongly bent outwards from below costa to beyond 

 upper angle of cell, incurved at discal fold, then excurved to vein 3 

 where it terminates, a terminal brown band expanding on costa to 

 near middle, its inner edge angled inwards at discal fold and 

 excurved at middle and below submedian fold, with a series of 

 diffused yellowish marks on it before termen, cilia reddish brown 

 intersected with white except at base from below apex to vein 2. 



Bab. U.S.A., California, Havilah, 1 S • Exp. 22 millim. 



