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and vein 1 ; traces of an oblique pink autemedial line across 

 submedian interspace ; a pink streak beyond the cell in discal fold 

 to the faint postmedial line, which is oblique from costa near apex 

 to submedian fold, where it is angled. Hind wing yellowish white 

 tinged with fuscous, the terminal area with pink. Underside 

 of fore wing suffused with fuscous, the apes with pink. 

 Hah. U.S.A., Kansas, 1 $ type. Exp. 36 millim. 



73. Thyreion rosea. (Plate LV. fig. 27.) 



Thi/reion rosea, Smitli, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xriii. p. 121 (1891) ; id. Cat 

 JSToct. N. Am. p.2G8. 



Head and thorax very pale yellow ; palpi and fore legs tinged 

 with pink ; antennaj fulvous ; abdomen white mixed with fuscous.' 

 Fore wing very pale yellow, with diffused blood-red streak below 

 base of cell and traces of an obKque postmedial band as patches 

 in discal and submedian folds. Hind wdng fuscous brown; the 

 cilia white. Underside of fore -wing fuscous brown except inner 

 area ;_ hind wing white, the inner area tinged with purplish pink, 

 especially towards tornus. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 $ , S. Park. E.qy. 34- millim. 



Larva (original).— Head round, bilobed, compact and smooth, 

 shining dark brown, sutures and rims of lobes posteriorly blackish. 

 Cervical shield large, transverse, rounded before, scarcely notched 

 behind, shining light brown, the two detached seta? on the lower 

 side not on a shield. Thoracic feet light brown. Body opaquely 

 white ; tubercles small, brown, with short dark seta?. Anal plate 

 shining brown with dark tubercles. Spiracles brown-rimmed. 

 Feet normal, the crochets in a neat half-circle on inner side of 

 planta. Tubercle iv at lower corner of spiracle. 



Food-plant, Allium, eating within the leaf and eventually down 

 to the bulb. At Denver, Col.— H. G. D. 



74. Thyreion ligeae. (Plate LY. fig. 28.) 

 Schinia ligea, Smith, Insect Life, v. p. 326, f. 2 (1893). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing 

 rather narrow, silky white ; the basal area suffused with dull red 

 towards the antemedial line, which is obliqae from costa to just 

 below cell, where it is sharply angled, then inwardly oblique ; the 

 postmedial line defined by a dull red band on outer side, excurved 

 from costa to vein 4, then incurved. Hind wiiig suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; the cilia yellowish white. Underside of fore wing 

 suffused with fuscotis except the margins ; hind wing slightly 

 tinged with fuscous ; an indistinct discoidal bar. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Argus Mts., 1 cS . Exp. 28 millim. 



