224 NOCTCID.K. 



wliilo; nbdoracn proy tiiifjod with brown. Fore winj; grcj'-whitc 

 sliirlitlv irri»rato<l with fn<oi)iis ; .-i black subbas.-il line from fosta to 

 .subiiK'<ii:iii told ; antemi'dial lim* doiUdo, tlic inner line indistinct, 

 the outer prominent, waved ; cluviform defined by black above at 

 extremity ; orbicular white, defined by black at sides, open above 

 and below ; reniform with fuscous centre and white annulus detined 

 by black ; medial line prominent, black, with a faint rufous tini;e be- 

 yond it, slightly incurved from costa to median nervure, then slightly 

 excurved ; postmedial line double, produced to slight black streaks 

 on the veins, obliciue from costa to vein G, incurved nt discal fob! 

 and below vein 4 ; subterminal line ill-defined, whitish, waved, 

 defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a waved black terminal line. Hind wing grey 

 tinged with fuscous ; the cilia white; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with fuscous, a small discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 



Huh. Can-ada, Vancouver I. (IT. //. Danbi/), 3 d, 2 $. Kx^t. 

 32-34 millim. 



Genus HILLIA. 



1 vpo. 



Ilillia, Grote, Proc. Am. Pltil. Soc. xxi. p. Itj8 (ISSS) irh. 



Crcii'iu, Auriv. Xord. Fj;iril. p. 1('(2 (^1891) ir»j!. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely iipfiirncd, tlie2ndjoint frina:«lwith 

 long htiir in front; eyes large, rounded ; frons with large tuft of liair ; iintennie 

 of male typically ciliated ; head and tlionix olotlied with hair and hair-like 

 scales, the vertexdf head, pro- and metathorax.aiid shoulders with well-dovelo|M>d 

 spreading crests; femoni and tibisB fringed with hair; abdomen wiih some 

 roiigli hair at twjse but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, 

 the termen slightly angled at middle, then oblique ; veins 3 and o fnun near 

 angle of cell; G from upper angle; tl from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole; 11 from cell. IJind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 ob<o- 

 lescent fronj middle of discoeellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing 

 with cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna^ of niiile bipectinate with rather short branches ending in 

 a bristle, the apical part :<errate. 



A. Fore wing suffused with black from nejir base to near sub- 



terminal line (!ifciiiii/ra. 



B. Fore wing not suffused with black algens. 



2372. Hillia discinigra. (Plate CI. fig. 32.) 

 Bri/ophila discinigra,\\\]i. ix. 28 (I8,')(i); Smith, Cat, Noct. N. Am. p. 1 18. 



$. Head and thorax black mixed with grey-white; teguhe 

 whitish, the basal half tinged with ochreous, a strong black medial 

 line and fuscous tips; abdomen ochreous grey mixed with dark 

 brown. Fore wing grey sutl'used with i'usi-nus black Irom near base 

 to near subterminal line, the outer edge of the dark suffusion 

 <ibli<inc ; subbasal line rejirescnted by a black striga from costa : 

 nn indistinct obli(iue waved antemediul line ; orbictdar and reniform 

 hlightly defined by black, the former somewhat oblique elliptical 



