€2 NOCTUID^. 



h"^. Fore wing with the aute- and postmedial lines 

 entire and separate. 

 a^. Fore wing with the postmedial line erenulate. 



«*. Hind wing with black discoidal s))ot approximata. 



b'*. Hind wing witliout black diseoidal spot. 

 a'. Fore wing with the anteiiiediai line 



angled below the cell thorcaui. 



b~\ Fore wing with the antemedial line evenly 



curved hanga. 



Ir'. Fore wing with the postmedial line evenly 



bisinuate marcjinata. 



b^. Hind wing with the whitish area not in-orated 

 with fuscous. 

 «^. Hind wing with large black diseoidal spot. 

 a^. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 

 prominently white, the former retracted to 



base at median nervure intrabilis. 



b'\ Fore wing with the aute- and postmedial lines 



very indistinct nubila. 



b'-. Hind wing without diseoidal spot. 



a^. Thorax and medial and terminal areas of 



fore wing irrorated with white imperspicua. 



h^. Thorax and fore wing not irrorated with 

 white, 

 a*. Fore wing with the basal and postmedial 



areas blaekisli lora. 



Ii^. Fore wing with the basal and postmedial 



areas pale browni bi fascia. 



79. Lygrantlicecia biinatris. (Plate LV. fig. 31.) 



Pippona bimatris, Harv. Bull. Bufl'. Soc. Jsat. Sci. iii. p. 10 (1875); Smith, 

 Cat. ISToct. N. Am. p. 266. 



J. Head yellowish white; palpi fuscous at tips ; antennse fulvous ; 

 thorax pure white ; legs yellowish white, the tibitc and tarsi tinged 

 Avith fuscous ; abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing silvery white. 

 Hind wing white, with slight fuscous suffusion from base through 

 the cell to apex. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous 

 escept the margins. 



Fore tibite with two claws and one spiue on inner side and three 

 claws on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 1 r^ type. Exp. 34 millim. 



80. Lygranthcecia ultima. (Plate LVI. fig. 10.) 



HdiotUs ultima, Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 122 (1876); Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 285. 



<S . Head and thorax red-brown, the scales tipped with white ; 

 pectus and legs ochreous irrorated with red-brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous. Fore wing red-brown irrorated with grey, the medial 

 area ochreous irrorated Avith red-brown ; the lines white ; the ante- 

 medial line waved, excurved at median nervure, then oblique ; the 

 postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved ; traces 

 of a sinuous subterminal line, with the area beyond it rather paler. 

 Hind wing ochreous slightly tinged Avith brown and Avith a brown 

 diseoidal spot; the terminal area broadly brown. Underside pale; 



