466 



^OCtVJVM. 



with f ascoua ; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to 

 snbmedian fold ; the antemedial line double, waved, and bent 

 outwards above inner margin ; claviform small, fuscous defined by 

 black ; orbicular and rcniform fuscous, with greyish annuli defined 

 by black, the former rounded ; the posDmedial line minutely dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique : the 



Fig. 82. — Oni/cliagrotis rileyana, ^ . 



snbterminal line indistinct, pale, waved, and slightly angled outwards 

 at vein 7 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the 

 veins and termen tinged with brown;- the underside with slight 

 discoidal lunule. 



$. Greyer; hind wing with the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., N. York, Illinois, 1 5 , Missouri. Kansas, Colorado^ 

 California (BeJirens), 1 J type, New Mexico. E:p. 38 millim. 



Genus PSEUDORTHOSIA. 



Pseudorthosia, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. IVat. Soi. ii. p. 161 (1874) 



Type. 



varia'iilis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, fringerlwitli hair in front; froiis 

 witla slight rougliened prominence ; eyes large, round, naked ; antenna' of male 

 minutely biserrate and fasciculate ; head and tiiorax clothed with long hair and 

 without crests; tibi:v strongly spined ; abdomen dorsally clothed vvith long 

 hair at base. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; S) 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 from upper angle. 



800. Pseudorthosia variabilis. 



Pseudorthosia variabilis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. IGl (1874) ; 

 Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 211. 



Head and thorax pale ochreous, rufous, or dark brown ; sides of 

 palpi and frons blackish ; abdomen ochreous, Avith the hair at base 

 whitish, the ventral surface and legs irrorated with dark brown. 

 Pore wing ochreous or rufous irrorated with dark brown, and some- 

 times suffused with fuscous brown ; the subbasal line sometimes 

 represented by dark points below costa and cell ; the antemedial 

 line well developed or obsolete, angled outwards below costa and 

 cell and inwards in cell and on vein 1 ; the orbicular a small pale- 

 edged oblique dark lunule, sometimes almost obsolete ; a diffused 

 medial line excurved from costa to median nervure, then oblique ; 



