LYGRANTHCECIA. 



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fore wing with brown discoidal spot and postmedial line with patch 

 heyoud it below middle ; hind wing with slight discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial line, with diffused patch towards tornus. 



Fore tibiae with two claws and two spines on inner side and three 

 claws on outer. 



Hob. U.S.A., Texas, 1 6 , Grote Coll. Exp. 34 millim. 



*81, Lygranthcecia concinna. (Plate LXIX. fig. 1.) 



Schinki concinna, Smith, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. xviii. p. 128(1891); id. 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 284. 



Head and thorax dark ochreous with an olive tinge ; abdomen 

 fuscous. Tore wing ochreous tinged with olive, the markings 

 chocolate-brown ; basal area brown, deepest towards the antemedial 

 line, which is white, prominent, excurved and sinuous to median 

 nervure, then incurved and sinuous ; rcniform large, dark, some- 

 what ill-defined, obscured by the dusky medial shade ; postmedial 

 line white, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, obso- 

 lescent and reduced to points beyond the cell ; postmedial area dark, 

 paler towards the subtcrminal line, which is only defined by the 

 area beyond it being ochreous ; cilia ochreous, with a terminal 

 series of dark points. Hind wing obscure fulvous towards the 

 base, becoming blackish towards termen ; cilia dirty ochreous 

 white. Underside ochreous ; fore wing with the disk black, con- 

 joined to a subapical spot ; a black discoidal spot ; hind wing with 

 large discoidal black spot and a terminal band. 



Fore tibiae with two claws on inner side and three on outer. 



Hab. U.S.A., S. Texas. Exp. 24 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me, figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. 



*S2. Lygranthoecia ? tanena. 



Schinia tanena, Streck. Lep. Eliop. k Het. Suppl. i. p. 10 (1S98\ 



Head and thorax olive-yellow ; abdomen clear yellow. Fore 

 wing with the basal area yellow-brown ; antemedial line wliitish, 

 produced outwards to a point on median nervure ; medial area 

 ochreous shaded with brown ; a dark quadrate reniform stigma 

 extending to costa ; postmedial line whitish, the area beyond it 

 yellow-brown ; tbe terminal area ochreous. Hind wing black, with 

 the basal area yellow. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, Bastrop {Heilhjhrodt). Exj). IG millim. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



83. Lygranthoecia mortua. (Plate LY. fig. 32.) 



Anthxcta mortua, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 528, pi. vi. f. 1 (1864); 



Sinith, Cat. Xoct. N. Am. p. 282. 

 Anthcecia packardii, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Pliil. iii. p. 528, pi. vi. i. 2 



(1864). 

 Anthcecia nohilis, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Plul. ui. p. ;j29, pi. vi. f. 3. 

 Anthacia lube, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 10 (1898). 



c? . Head and thorax yellow-brown tinged with red-brown ; 



