2J8 yocTVivx. 



Genus DRYOTYPE, nov. 



TviHs, D. opina. 



rrobosoid fully dpvcloppfl ; palpi obliquelv porrcot, tlie 2nd joint frineed 

 with long Imir bolow, tin- .'ird intult-rat*' ; frons witli sliRht rounded prominence 

 rouglienpil in front ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna; of male bijHTtinnfe with 

 li»n^ brandies, the ai>ical jiarl herrotc, of female ciliated ; thorax clothed with 

 rough hair and scales, the pro- and nietathorax with spreading crests; tibia; 

 fringeil with hair: abdomen with dorsal series of rrcsls and lateral fringes of 

 hair. Fore wing with the termen crenulate ; Teins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; fi from upper angle ; '.) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tlie areole ; 

 1 1 from cell. Hind wing .vith reins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocoUulars ; C, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 



2376. Dryotype opina. 



Dryohota opina, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 178 (1878) ; Smith, Cat 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 156. 



<S . Head and thorax clothed with fuscous-brown and grey scales 

 and hair, the pataj^^ia with some black scales near upper edge ; 

 tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen reddish brown with the lateral 

 fringes yellowish. Fore wing purplish brown suffused with fuscouB 

 and slightly irrorated with grey ; a slight curved subbasal line from 

 costa to Rubmcdian fold ; antemedial line double at costa, then 

 single, rather oblique, angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform moderate, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black and with 

 some wliitish irroration in centres, tlio former round, the latter with 

 some white on outer edge ; an indistinct waved medial line, oblique 

 from costa to vein 2; postmedial line strongly defined by purplish 

 red on outer side except at costa, bent outwards below costa, then 



Fig. 72. — Dryotype opina, (^ . \. 



somewhat dentate, incurved below vein 4 and with some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a scries 

 of slight ochreous lunules, defined on inner side by black between 

 veins 7 and 1, forming dentate marks at middle, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of slight black 

 lunules ; cilia brown with fine ochreous lino at base. Hind wing 

 whitish, the terminal half suffused with brown, a small discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedial line showing through from underside ; 

 a dark terminal line ; cilia brownish with ochreous line at base ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



$ darker and duller in colour, the hind wing wholly suffused 

 with fuscous. 



llnh. U.S.A., California, Mamie Co, 1 S type, Sanzalito, 1 $ . 

 Exp. 36 millim. 



