scniNiA. 85 



side white ; fore wing with small black orbicular and large reniform 

 stigmata. 



Fore tibiae with one claw and one spine on inner side and two 

 claws on outer. 



Hah. Mongolia, Uliassutai, 1 (5,1 § . Ejci). 34-36 millim. 



*129. Schiiiia arefacta. (Plate LXIX. fig. 6.) 



Tamila arefacta, H. Edw. Pap. iv. p. 123 (1884) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 276. 



c? . Head and thorax creamy white ; abdomen reddish. Fore 

 wing creamy white, with the bands pale brown ; the basal shade 

 not reaching the costa ; medial shade waved with an interrupted 

 band of rich dark brown on it ; the postmedial shade with waved 

 edges with a few dark brown scales on them representing the post- 

 medial and subterminal lines. Hind wing reddish buff, with traces 

 of double medial band. Underside deep buff ; fore wing with a 

 reddish tinge, the discal spot prominent. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida. Exp. 20\m\\ixn. This species is unknown 

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



*130. Schinia dolosa. 



Sc/nnia dolosa, Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het., Suppl. i. p. 9 (1898). 



Head and thorax dull greyish brown ; abdomen whitish. Fore 

 wing dull greyish brown ; the basal and subterminal areas some- 

 times darker than the medial area ; the lines whitish, distinct or ill- 

 . defined ; the antcmedial line evenly curved ; the postmedial line fine, 

 white, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved. Hind wing 

 white, with black discoidal spot and broad, even, terminal black band ; 

 cilia white or white and fuscous. Underside white suffused with 

 fuscous, the markings indistinct. 



Hah. Texas, San Antonio (Boll). Exp. 22-25 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me, 



131. Schinia cupes. (Plate LVII. fig. 2.) 



Hcliothls cupes. Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 113(1875): id. Bull. 



Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 311, pi. iii. f. 4 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am 



p. 280. 

 Heliothis crotchii, H. Edw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 135 (1875). 



S . Head and thorax whitish mixed with pale brown, some of the 

 scales tipped with black; abdomen ochreous white, dorsally tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing ochreous white, tinged and irrorated with brown 

 leaving the veins pale : a pale sinuous subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold defined on inner side by brown : a pale antemedial 

 line defined by brown, slightly angled outwards below costa and 

 excurved below cell ; the orbicular and reniform with grey centres, 

 and browiiish annuli defined l)y black ; the postmedial line pale 

 defined by brown, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards 

 in discal fold and strongly incurved below vein 3 ; a subterminal 



