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/;'. Fore wing witlioat white annulus to reniform. 



a?-. Foi'e wing strongly sufFusecl with brown sonahilis. 



h'^. Fore wing slightly tinged with rufous deccpta. 



C-. Fore wing grey slightly tinged with brown. 



a'. Fore wing with the subtenuinal line white, dentate 



on veins 4, 3 detnotica. 



b^. Fore wing with the subtenninal line indistinct, not 

 dentate on veins 4, 3. 

 a*. Hind wing with the terminal band pale brownish, 

 a'. Fore wing with the antemedial line very 



oblique from oesta to submedian fold anlica. 



ffi. Fore wing with the antemedial line more erect 



from costa to submedian fold postica. 



//. Hind wing with the terminal band deep fuscous edvardsi. 



1459. Triclioclea U-scripta. (Plate LXXXIY. fig. 22.) 



Mamestm U-scripta, Smith, Pr. U.S. IN'at. Mus. xiv. p. 228 (1891) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 119. 



c? . Head and thorax grey and fuscous with a. brownish tinge; 

 abdomen grey and fuscous, paler at base. Fore wing yellowish 

 brown slightly irrorated with fuscous ; the costal area and veins 

 fuscous irrorated with white; subbasal and antemedial lines and 

 claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform small, the former hardly 

 traceable, oblique elliptical, the latter with its upper part very 

 indistinct, its lower with prominent white U-shaped mark with 

 •white streak on median iiervure before it ; postmedial line hardly 

 traceable, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some white points on costa beyond it; a subterminal 

 series of slight dentate dark marks, the terminal area darker ; a 

 series of pure -white streaks from extremity of veins intersecting the 

 cilia. Hind -wing pale suffused w'ith fuscous brown, the veins and 

 termen darker; cilia whitish with a dark line through them inter- 

 sected by a series of white streaks from extremity of veins ; the 

 underside whitish thickly irrorated with large brown scales. 



Fore tarsi with rather long curved claw-like spines on outer side 

 of joints. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado {Bruce), 1 J , California, Sierra Nevada. 

 Exp. 38 millim. 



1460. Trichoclea artesta. (Plate LXXXTV. fig. 23.) 



Mamestra artesta. Smith, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. xxix. p. 197. 



6 . Head and thorax pale red mixed with brown and white ; 

 antennae whitish ; abdomen pale ochreous, ventrally brownish. 

 Fore wing pale red sparsely irrorated with white, more strongly on 

 inner area and costal area beyond middle ; subbasal line indistinct, 

 defined by white on outer side, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line indistinct, defined by white on inner side, 

 waved, angled inwards on the veins ; claviform absent ; orbicular 

 and reniform with white annuli defined by brown, the former 

 minute, round, with brown centre, the latter with white centre 



