72 NOCTUID^. 



103. Lygranthoecia bifascia. (Plate LYl. lig. 3.) 



Schinia bifaxia, Hiibii. Zutr. i. p. 14, fF. 55, 56 (1827); Siuith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 276. 

 Anthophilo. divcrgcns, Wlk. xii. 830 (1857). 



$ . Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale olive-brown ; 

 (abdomen wanting). Fore wing ochreous whitish, irrorated and 

 .suffused with pale olive-brown ; an antemedial whitish line obtusely 

 angled oiitwards below costa, then very oblique ; a postmedial 

 slightly sinuous whitish line, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 oblique to vein 2, then bent outwards to inner margin. Hind wing 

 ochreous whitish, irrorated with olive-brown, especially on terminal 

 area. 



Fore tibiae with tw^o claws and one spine on inner side and four 

 claws on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Georgia, 1 5 type dlvergens, Colorado, Arizona, 

 Exj). 30 millim. 



Genus SCHINIA. 



Type. 



Schinia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 281 ( 1827) i/raeikiifa. 



Tamila, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 176 (1852) iiudina. 



Eulcuci/picra, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 329 (1865) ... enmatUis. 



Ti-irojiii', Grote, Bull. Biiif. Soc. 'Sat. Sci. ii. p. 75 (1874) chryscllus. 



Porrima, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iii. p. 798 (1877) ^angninea. 



Bcssula, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 176 (1881) hixa. 



Trileuca, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 265 (1883) tr/fascia. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi fringed with hair below, porrect to just 

 beyond the large rounded frontal prominence, with curved corneous plate 

 below it ; ej-es smooth, rounded ; antennaj of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed witli hair and scales; fore tibitv short and broad, with a long curved 

 claw and two spines on inner side and four or five claws on outer, diminishing 

 in length towards base of tibia ; mid and hind tibiae strongly spined. Fore 

 wing with the apex slightly produced and the termeii obliquely curved ; vein 3 

 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 shortly stalked. 



A. Fore wing yellowish white with the markings reduced to 



points /iLva. 



B. Fore wing with the markings not reduced to points. 

 ". Fore wing with the ground-colour silvery white. 



a\ Fore wing without medial band. 



a^. Fore wing without antemedial band oculaia. 



h-. Fore wing with antemedial band from cell to inner 



margin rcniformis. 



I-. Fore wing with complete antemedial band. 



(i'\ Hind wing with discoidal spot cumatilis. 



h'\ Hind wing without discoidal spot. 



'-'■'. Fore wing with the white medial area broad ... hidstia. 

 h^. VovQ wing with the white medial area narrow . tenucscens. 



