522 NOCTUIDiE. 



subdorsal and lower lateral bunds are greyish brown, not much 

 darker than the other markings. CJcneral colour light brown, not 

 creamy. A diffused lighter shade above the subdorsal dark band. 

 Cervical shiidd more chitinized than in roseola. Eeet witliout dark 

 patches. Eood-plauts, Grasses. — II. G. D. 



1892. Cirphis dia. (Plate XCII. fig. 24.) 



Hvliophila dia, Grote, Can. Eiit. xi. p. 29 (1879); id. 111. Essay, 56, 



1)1. ii. f. 19; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 187. 

 Leucania met/adia, Smith, Vi: U.S. Nat. Mus. xxv. p. 191 (1902); Dyar, 



Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 163. 



cJ . Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown ; tcguhe with 

 medial brown line; a few dark scales near upper edge of patagia ; 

 abdomen white tinged with brown, the anal tuft with ochreous ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen much browner. Fore 

 wing ochreous white tinged with reddish brown ; the veins white 

 defined by fine brown streaks, the interspaces with brown streaks, 

 the costal and inner areas sparsely irrorated with black ; a black 

 point in low^er angle of cell ; a postmedial series of black points on 

 the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblicjue ; some black points on termen sometimes present ; cilia 

 reddish brown intersected with white. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 and irrorated with brown except towards base ; cilia white ; the 

 underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown. 



Bab. Canada, Alberta, Calgary ( Wolhnj-Bod), 3 S co-type megadia, 

 British Columbia, Laggan, Kaslo (J. W. Coclde), c? , 4 § ; U.S.A., 

 Washington, Wyoming, Oregon, Nevada, Colorado, California, 2 S 

 type, ( Walsingham) 1 S ■> Arizona, Exp. 30-36 millim. 



*1893. Cirphis diagramma. (Plate XCVI. fig. 15.) 

 Leucania diagramma, Beth.-Baker, ined. 



(S . Head and thorax whitish with a violaceous tinge and irro- 

 rated with brown ; tegulae with three dark lines ; patagia with 

 some black scales near upper edge ; tibins slightly streaked witli 

 black ; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with brown and ventrally 

 irrorated with black ; the anal tuft ochreous. Pore wing Avhitish 

 witli a slight violaceous tinge, the veins white defined by dark 

 streaks, the interspaces with purple-brown streaks, the costal and 

 inner areas irrorated with black ; a purple-brown shade below 

 median nervure and a black streak in base of submedian fold ; the 

 median nervure and vein 4 with stronger white streaks ; a black 

 point in lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of black points 

 bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, an obliiiuo 

 diffused white fascia from apex with triangular brown shade below 

 it from termen; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with ochreous brown except the interspaces of basal 

 area ; a series of black points on termen from apex to vein 2 ; the 

 underside white, with some dark irroration on costal area. 



IJab. Ekit. N. Guinea, Babooni {Pratt), type f <5 in Coll. Bcthunc- 

 Bakcr. Kcjk 38 millim. 



