288 NOCTUID^. 



*lo42. Hyssia fasciata. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 32.) 



IJolonchc fasciata, ^mM^Vr. U.S. Nat,. Mus. x. p. 471 (1887); id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. im 



S . Head and thorax bluish grey mixed with fuscous ; ?bdomen 

 ochreous irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey tinged with 

 blue and irrorated with fuscous, the area beyond the medial line 

 suffused with fuscous ; subbasal line black, curved, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line ill-defined, oblique from costa to 

 submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above 

 inner margin ; claviform a rather wedge-shaped black streak 

 extending to the diffused oblique black medial line ; orbicular 

 absent ; reniform rufous with some black suffusion before and 

 beyond it ; postmedial line unusually near termen, represented by 

 some black points, bent outwards below costa, excurved to veiu 4, 

 then oblique ; subterminal line represented by a series of black 

 points with some rufous scales round them, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a termiual series of black points. 

 Hind wing greyish uniformly suffused with fuscous ; the underside 

 grey irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Mexico, in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 32 millim. 



1543. Hyssia niveiguttata. (Plate LXXXVI, fig. 18.) 



Mamestra niveiguttaf,a, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 140, pi. iv, 

 f. 16 (1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 130. 



c^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with grey 

 and some ochreous ; tegulse with black medial line. Fore wing 

 grey irrorated with brown and black ; an ochreous tinge in discal 

 and submedian folds and on inner margin ; a very obscure black 

 streak below base of cell ; an indistinct, waved, subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, the outer line 

 indistinct, oblique, waved ; claviform small, defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, defined by black, the former irre- 

 gularly rounded, the latter with its lower portion tilled in with 

 black and with two white points on its outer lower side ; traces of 

 a waved medial line ; postmedial line indistinct, sinuous, bent 

 outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, the area beyond 

 it suffused with fuscous and > with some white points on costa ; 

 subterminal line somewhat dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules and 

 some whitish points at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown ; 

 the cilia pale brown with dark line through them ; the underside 

 grey thickly irrorated with dark brown, a discoidal point and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 2 S type, {StretcJi) 1 J. Exp. 30 

 milliin. 



