188 NOCTriD.'K. 



ccllulars : postmodial line black, detiricd by wbitc on outer side, 

 stroiiijly bout outwards below costa, excurved to vein 1, tben very 

 oblicjue to subiiKMliau fold, wbero it is aiip;led inwards, tlu-ii ex- 

 curved to inner niarfjin ; a series of stronfj black streaks in the 

 interspaces of terminal urea defined by wliite above and below, 

 those towards middle extending almost to j)ostraedial line, endinj; 

 in small terminal black lunules ; cilia brownish at base, with stronp 

 fuscous medial line and che<iuered white and fuscous tips. Hind 

 winp wliite faintly tinjjed with ochreous, the termen slij^btlj 

 suflusod with brown, a dark terminal line; cilia white, brownish 

 at base ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal point and traces of postmedial line 

 on costal area. 



//'//'. Canada, 1 c?, 1 $, Renfrew Co., 1 S ; U.S.A., Maine to 

 Texas and west to Kansas and Colorado. Kvj}. li'J millim. 



LarvK. Head rounded, wider than hii;h, granular, light brown, 

 the sides che(|uered, vertical curved band broad, especially at vertex. 

 Body narrowed at the ends, light brown with darker brown lines. 

 Shields concolorous and only slightly chitinizcd, a broad straight 

 whitish dorsal line, brown-centered, edged by a broad brown jjand 

 containing a fine whitish line, which is waved, contracting in the 

 incisures ; a subdorsal white line strongly edged below with brown. 

 A broad pale lateral and substigmal band separated by stigmatal 

 brown mottlings ; subventral region heavily brown-mottled with a 

 narrow light pedal lino. Feet dark-mottled without, especially the 

 oval shields. Spiracles whitish, black-rimmed. — H. d. D. 



*2320. Homohadena fifia. (Plate CI. fig. 1.) 



HoiiKiliadena Jijia, Dyar, Can. Ent. xxxvi. p. 30 (1904). 



Differs from Jl. hadistrvja in being darker grey, the ground- 

 colour ashen grey obscured by dark shades and without any rufous 

 tinge ; the markings similar, varying much in the extent of the 

 dark shades ; tegular grey, scarcely contrasting with the thorax. 



//('''. Canada, Br. Columbia, Kaslo. Exi>. t<2 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me ; iigured from drawing from type in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*2321. Homohadena retroversa. (riatc CI. tig, 2.) 



Humohadcna rclroicrsa, Murr. Troc. 13ost. Soc. X. H. wii. p. If)? 1 1."^74) ; 

 Siiiitb, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. l.')7. 



Head and thorax fuscous grey. Fore wing fuscous grey ; sub- 

 basal line represented by a dark striga from costa : an indistinct 

 slight black streak in base of submcdian fold ; anteniedial line dis- 

 tinct, slightly and evenly excurved ; a slight indistinct streak in 

 discal fold through the reniforni to subterminal line ; orbicular and 

 renifoini with ill-defined rather broad jiale annuli : postmedial line 

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



