90 NOCTTJID.'i:. 



fuscous subtermiiial band, cilia fuscous and white ; hind wing white^ 

 with slight discoidal spot, a slight crimson tinge towards apex. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas. Exp. 38 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



140. Schinia sanguinea. (Plate LYII. fig. 1.) 



Oria sanguinea, Geyer, Zutr. iv. p. 9, flP. 613, 614 (1832) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. iSr. Am. p. 212. 

 Schinia carminosa, Neum. Papilio, iii. p. 142 (1883). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing whitish, suffused with dull brown or in some specimens with 

 purplish red ; the basal area p\irple-red to the antemedial line, 

 which is acutelj' angled just below median nervure and very oblique 

 towards costa and inner margin ; slight white streaks on the veins 

 at the ante- and postraedial lines ; an obscure diffused brown or 

 blackish discoidal spot, rarely with a well-marked medial shade 

 from it to inner margin ; the postmcdial line excurved from costa 

 to vein 3, then incurved, with a purple-red band on its outer edge, 

 emitting streaks to termen at veins 7, 5, 4 and at tornus ; cilia 

 brown or chequered brown and white. Hind wing brown, the cilia 

 white at tips ; the underside whitish, with indistinct discoidal spot 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Pore tibiae with one claw and three spines on inner side and four 

 claws on outer. 



Hub. U.S.A., Texas, 3 c? , 3 2 , Florida. Exp. 32-3G millim. 



141. Schinia saturata. (Plate LVI. fig. 29.) 



Lyqranthcecia saturata, Gi-ote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 74 (1874) » 



'Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 278. 

 Heliothis rubiginosa, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 122 (1876). 



S . Head and thorax ochreous irrorated and suffused with rufous, 

 the scales of thorax with pale tips ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing 

 ochreous, suffused with bright rufous and irrorated with white ; the 

 antemedial line rather indistinct, white, waved, and excurved at 

 median nervure ; the postmedial line minutely waved, white, 

 slightly defined by fuscous on outer side, bent outwards from below 

 costa to vein 3 : traces of a sinuous subterminal line ; a terminal 

 series of brown stria3. Hind wing yellow tinged with rufous, 

 especially on discocellulars and terminal area. Underside with the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with rufous, slight rufous 

 discoidal spots. 



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

 claws on oixter. 



Hah. U.S.A., 1 S , Grote Coll., Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida, 

 Texas, Kansas, S. California. Exp. 30 millim. 



142. Schinia roseitincta. (Plate LYI. fig. 28.) 



Lijgranfha'cia roAcitiuHa, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 278 ( 1875) ; 



'Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 278. 

 Melideptria e.raltata, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 124 (1884). 



(S . Head and thorax fulvous orange ; tibiae and tarsi tinged 



