634 NOCTUID^. 



1090. Triphaena carissima. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 5.) 



Agrotis carissima, Harv. Grote's Check-List, 25 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 54. 



(S . Head and thorax purple-red, a few of the scales tipped with 

 white ; palpi black, whitish at tips ; tegular black at extremities ; 

 tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous brown, grej'ish at 

 base, tinged with purple at middle, and on ventral surface which is 

 irrorated with white. Fore wing purple-red, irrorated and the 

 terminal area tinged with fuscous ; a double subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold, excurved below costa ; a double, waved, 

 antemedial line angled outwards below costa ; the orbicular and 

 reniform indistinctly outlined with fuscous ; a double, waved, post- 

 medial line, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; an indistinct pale subterminal line with some black 

 points on its inner edge towards costa, and incurved at vein 2. 

 Hind Aving pale evenl}- suffused with brown ; the cilia white at 

 tips ; the underside with small discoidal spot and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 1 S type. Exp. 38 millim. 



*1091. Triphsena bimarginalis. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 6.) 



Agrotis bimarginalis, Grote, A. M. N. H. (5) xi. p. 53 (1883); Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 54. 



Head and thorax orange-brown to ferruginous ; tegulae greyish ; 

 abdomen fuscous grey, the anal tuft orange-brown. Fore wing 

 deep brown, irrorated with ferruginous and with blackish shading ; 

 the costal area leather -brown or reddish yellow, black on postmedial 

 area ; the terminal area grey ; the antemedial line sinuous ; orbicular 

 and reniform suffused with black ; postmedial line even, slightly 

 crenulate, with a series of points beyond it on the veins. Hind 

 wing fuscous grey ; the underside fuscous, with discoidal spot and 

 diffused postmedial line. 



Bab. IJ.S.A., New Mexico. Ex2). 35-36 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn 

 Inst. Arts & 8ci. 



*1092. Triphaena totonaca. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 7.) 

 Koctua totonaca, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xsi. p. 226 (1894). 



S . Head and base of teguloe pale rufous, the vertex rather dark ; 

 palpi at sides, spots at side of frons and on neck above black ; thorax 

 deep chocolate-brown ; ijectus and legs rufous ; abdomen grey- 

 brown, the hair at sides and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing 

 black-brown, the costal area pale tinged with rufous to the post- 

 medial line ; the subbasal line represented by a black point below 

 costa, the indistinct antemedial line by a black point below costa, 

 then angled outwards and waved ; the orbicular and reniform dark 

 red-brown defined by black, the former minute, elongate, the cell 

 filled in by black ; the postmedial line minutely waved, excurved 

 from cell to vein 4, then oblique : the subterminal line defined by 



