606 NOCTl'TD.K. 



slight medial line, and black line before the tips which are grey ; 

 abdomen fuscous. Fore wing fuscous mixed with black and with 

 some whitish or greenish scales ; subbasal line double filled in with 

 creamy or greenish scales ; antemedial Hne double filled in with 

 greenish, obliquely excurved ; claviform small, incompletely defined 

 by black and yellowish or greenish scales ; orbicular small, narrow, 

 oblique, with" slight pale annulus defined by black ; reniform 

 narrow, with rather prominent white annulus defined by black ; 

 postmcdial line double, tho outer line incomplete, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line 

 whitish, defined by black scales or spots on inner side and a 

 lunulate white patch above vein 1, rather irregular ; a terminal 

 series of whitish lunules ; cilia yellowish at tips. Hind wing 

 fuscous, rather paler at base ; cilia whitish, with a fuscous line 

 through them ; the underside pale with dark irroration, a small 

 discoidal spot, postmcdial line, and terminal shade. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, Idaho. Exp. 27 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



rage 211. 



* 1426 a. Hadena elseistis. (Plate XCIY. fig. 3.) 



Hadena elmistis, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xv. (April 1905). 



$ . Head and thorax olive-brown mixed with some black ; 

 palpi with the 3rd joint black at sides, whitish above ; frons with 

 blackish bar with some white above it ; tegulae with some black near 

 base and white medial line and tips ; patagia edged with white ; 

 ])rothoracic crest rufous tipped with white ; pectus whitish and 

 olive ; legs white and fuscous ; abdomen rufous, brown at base, the 

 ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing olive- 

 brown, the subcostal nervure, median nervure, and vein 4 to just 

 beyond postmedial line and vein 1 with purplish-white fascice ; 

 subbasal line represented by oblique white striiB from costa and 

 cell, defined on each side by black, the black forming a streak in 

 submedian fold to antemedial line, which is represeuted by two 

 black points at costa and below the cell by a whitish line very 

 strongly angled outwards on vein 1, defined by black on both sides 

 in submedian interspace and on both sides below vein 1 ; claviform 

 very elongate, and acute at extremity, defined by black and with 

 oblique whitish streak above it ; orbicular and reniform narrow and 

 confluent below, with olive centres and yellowish-white annuli 

 defined at sides by black, the former oblique oblong ; traces of a 

 postmedial line strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique 

 and placed on an oblique yellowish-white band from apes to vein 1, 

 some dentate black marks before and beyond it with yellowish 

 lunules on them representing the subterminal line ; a pinkish band 

 before termen ; cilia brown, with black line through them followed 

 by white. Hind wing whitish, the veins, inner and terminal areas 



