482 NOCTUIDiK. 



dark antemedial line bent inwards to costa, discoidal point, sub- 

 terminal spot on costa, and bars between veins 7 and 5 and 2 and 1 

 and a terminal line. 



Ab. ] . Hind wing with the terminal band broader, the underside 

 of fore wing with the black extending to the medial line, leaving an 

 elliptical patch round the discoidal lunule connected with the post- 

 medial line. — Yosemite Valley. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 1 6 type, Sonoma Co. (Walsingham), 



2 2 > Mendocino Co. (Walsingham), 1 $ , S. Raphael (0. Sachen), 



3 $ , Middle California, 2 tf , 2 § , Yosemite Valley, 1 ? . Exp. 

 22-24 millim. 



4969. Annaphila casta. (Plate CXLVIL fig. 12.) 



Annaphila casta, H. Edw. Ent. Am. vi. p. 114 (1890) ; Smith, Oat. Noet. 

 N. Am. p. 296. 



$ . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some white scales ; 

 antennas riuged with white ; pectus and legs mostly white ; abdomen 

 black mixed with white towards extremity and with white seg- 

 mental lines, the ventral surface white. Pore wing black-brown 

 mixed with some grey ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, curved, waved, with 

 some whitish suffusion on inner side ; orbicular small, round, with 

 whitish centre indistinctly defined by black ; a broad oblique white 

 postmedial band, its inner edge indented below the cell, its outer 

 waved and ending at tornus, the reniform represented by a slight 

 grey lunule with small blackish spot beyond its upper extremity and 

 larger spot beyond its lower ; postmedial line on the white baud, 

 dark, oblique, waved to vein 3, then obsolescent and diffused ; sub- 

 terminal line irregularly waved, indistinct, whitish and defined by 

 a brown band on inner side from costa to vein 3, then white ; a 

 terminal series of small blackish spots ; cilia chequered pale and 

 dark brown and with dark line through them. Hind wing pure 

 white, the base suffused with fuscous ; a black terminal band ex- 

 panding on apical area and below vein 2 and ending in a point at 

 tornus ; cilia white, black at apex. Underside of fore wing white 

 with black medial band expanding below the cell, a black discoidal 

 lunule and postmedial spot below vein 2, terminal area black, ex- 

 panding towards apex, with some white points on costa and sub- 

 terminal series of spots ; hind wing white with curved black ante- 

 medial line, discoidal point with striga above it from costa, 

 subterminal series of irregular marks, and terminal line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Mendocino Co., Rancheni Creek ( Wals- 

 ingham), 8 2 type. Exp. 26-30 millim. 



4970. Annaphila superba. (Plate CXLVIL fig. 13.) 



Annaphila superba, H. Edw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 139 (1875); Grote, 

 111. Essay, p. 60, pi. 3. f. 28 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 296. 



5 . Head and thorax black-brown with a few greyish scales ; 



