78 



NOCTUID-S;. 



a ferruginous medial baud with somewhat darker sinuous edges, 

 oblique from costa to lower augle of cell, where it is angled, then 

 inwardly oblique ; a pale ferruginous terminal band with dentate 

 inner edge with dai'ker or blackish spots on it, a white patch at 

 apex, and a terminal series of black striae on white spots ; cilia 

 ferruginous and white. Hind wing white, with diffused cupreous- 

 brown terminal band. 



Fore tibia) with one claw and two spines on inner side and four 

 claws on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, Dallas {Boll), 3 c? , 3 5 type. E.vp. 30 

 millim. 



112. Schinia aleucis. (Plate LVI, fig. 14.) 



Tricopis aleucis, Hai-v. Can. Eut. vii. p. 117 (1875) ; id. Bull. Buff. Soc. 

 Nat. Sci. iii. p. 10, pi. 2. f. 5 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 275. 



cJ . Head and thorax white, mixed with pale fulvous and dark 

 brown ; abdomen white tinged with fulvous. Fore wing silvery 

 white ; the basal area pale fulvous, with waved outer edge produced 

 on costa and inner margin to join the medial fulvous band with 

 somewhat darker waved edges, constricted at middle and with its 

 outer edge conjoined .to a rounded spot beyond the discoccllulars ; 

 the terminal area pale fulvous, narrowing to inner margin, and 

 with a waved subterminal white line on it expanding into spots 

 on costa and above tornus. Hind wing white, with pale fulvous 

 terminal rather diffusLxl band narrowing to tornus. 



Fore tibiae with one claw and two spines on inner side and four 

 claws on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 1 $ type. Exp. 28 millim. 



113. Schinia? hicilinea. (Plate LYII. fig. 8.) 

 HcUothis luciUnea, Wlk. xv. 1749 (1858). 



2 . (Fore legs wanting.) Head and thorax pale ochreous brown ; 

 pectus and legs mixed with white ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged 

 with ochreous. Fore wing pale ochreous brown ; a pure white 

 fascia occupying the cell and partially conjoined to a somewhat 

 conical patch beyond it ; diffused fuscous streaks on costa, subcostal 

 and median nervures ; an antemedial jnirplish-grey patch on inner 

 area ; the postmedial line white, defined on each side by purplish 

 grey, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 slightly incurved ; the subterminal line only defined by the area 

 beyond it being rather paler ; the termen rufous, with a series of 

 minute deep black streaks in the interspaces. Hind wing white ; 

 the veins streaked with brown ; the terminal area suffused with 

 brown, narrowing to apex and tornus. Underside of fore wing 

 white, the costal and terminal areas tinged with ochreous, a black 

 subterminal band between veins 7 and 2, narrowing above ; hind 

 wing with obscure subterminal blackish band between vein 6 and 

 eubmedian fold. 



Hah. Haiti, 1 $ type. Exp. 34 millim. 



