24 



KOCTinDiE. 



discoidal spot indistinct, blackish, with some red-brown above it oix 

 costa ; the postmedial line black, oblique from costa to vein 4, 

 where it is strongly angied, then stronglj- incurved. Hind wing 



Fig. 10. — Bykocncmis -prompt a, J. \. 



black, with large white medial patch not reaching inner margin and 

 with its outer edge angled at vein 4 ; cilia white. Underside of 

 fore wing with the discoidal spot black and conjoined to a black 

 costal fascia. 



Hah. U.S.A., Oregon, California. 1 $ Grote Coll., {Walsinqham} 

 12 J , 2 2 . Exj}. 30 millim. 



*24. Dysocnemis belladonna. 



Mclicleptria beUadonna, H. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 20 (1881) ; Siuitb, Cat. 

 Noct.N. Am.p. 287. 



Head and thorax with long brown hair ; tarsi whitish : abdomen 

 black, with dorsal brown crest at base. Fore wing rich lu-own, 

 deepest towards base and inner margin : medial area whitish 

 irrorated with brown, somewhat triangular in shape and not 

 reaching costa or inner margin, with the large black-brown orbicular 

 and reniform stigmata on it ; postmedial line narrow, blackish, 

 strongl}' excurved at middle, where it almost touches the slightly 

 sinuous whitish subterminal line: a terminal series of triangiilar 

 brown spots in the iuterspaces ; cilia brown. Hind wing black, 

 with large discal subelliptical white patch ; cilia brown, Avhite at 

 tips. Underside of fore wing black-brown, with large creamy- 

 white discal patch, orbicular and reniform black. 



Hah. U.S.A., Utah. Exp. 30 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



25. Dysocnemis borealis, n. sp. (Plate LY. fig. 6.) 



§ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the two former tinged 

 with rufous. Fore wing with the basal area black and including 

 the small round indistinct black orbicular stigma ; no trace of the 

 ante- or postmedial lines : the medial area pale, irrorated and 

 suffused with brown ; the reniform small, black, and rather diffused ; 

 terminal area black-brown. Hind wing black, the basal area 

 including the discoidal spot and followed by a broad yellowish- 

 white postmedial band, which does not reach inner margin and has 

 its outer edge slightly angled at vein 4. Underside of fore wing 



