SCHINIA, 83 



inwardly oblique ; reniform defined by blackish and with an oblique 

 olive shade from it to inner margin ; postmedial line excurved from 

 costa to vein 4, then incurved, with an olive band beyond it extend- 

 ing to the sinuous subtermiual line ; a terminal series of dark points. 

 Hind wing white with slight discoidal spot and ill-defined olive 

 subtermiual band. 



Fore tibife with one claw and three spines on inner side and three 

 claws on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona. Exj). 2om.\Y\.\va. This species is unknown 

 to me ; figured from a photograph from type. 



125. ScMnia mmdina. (Plate LYI. fig. 20.) 



Noctua nundina, Drury, 111. i. p. 35, pi. 18. f. 5 (1770) ; Smith, Oat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 276. 

 Noctua nignrena. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 266 (1810) ; Steph. III. Brit. Eut., 



Haust. iii. p. 114. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white. Fore wing white ; an olive 

 mark at base of costa ; an olive antemedial band with irregularly 

 waved edge, angled at median nervure and narrowing towards inner 

 margin ; a black point in middle of cell with small olive spot on 

 costa above it : the reniform black, much constricted at middle and 

 with bluish-white discoidal lunule on it, placed on the olive medial 

 shade which is broad and diffused from costa to vein 2, then retracted 

 to below middle of cell, narrow and bisinuate ; the postmedial line 

 waved, white, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved, and 

 expanding into patches on costa and inner area, with a broad olive 

 band on its outer edge with irregularly trisinuate outer edge ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, Avith more or less 

 developed olive discoidal lunule and subtermiual band from costa to 

 vein ] , diffused outwards to termen at apex. Underside with the 

 discoidal spots and subterminal bands blackish. 



Fore tibife with one claw and two spines on inner side and three 

 claws on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Middle, Southern, and Central States, 2 c? , 1 § , 

 Xew Jersey, Arizona, Mesilla( Coc^ere//), 1 6- Exp. 26-32 millim. 



126. Schiuia coercita. (Plate LVI. fig. 24.) 



Lygranthoscia coercita, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 156 (1881) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 5^. Am. p. 277. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen Avhite, tinged with ochreous. 

 Fore wing white suffused with ochreous brown : the antemedial line 

 white, angled just below median nervure and oblique towards costa 

 and inner margin, defined by darker brown on inner side ; orbicular 

 small, brown, elongate ; reniform grey, browTi-edged, constricted at 

 middle and angled inwards on median nervure ; the postmedial line 

 white, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved ; a broader 

 subterminal white line angled inwards almost to the postmedial line 

 in discal fold ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia white tinged 

 with ochreous. Hind wing ochreous white, with brownish discoidal 



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