200 



NOCTUID-li. 



margin ; claviforrn narrow, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform rather small, defined by black, the former whitish, oblique 

 elliptical, the latter with fuscous centre and whitish annulus ; a 

 diffused medial line oblique from costa to below angle of cell, then 

 inwardly oblique ; postmedial line black defined by white on outer 

 side, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, oblique 



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Fig. 38. — Andrqpolia diversUineata, J. \. 



below vein 4, crossed by a black streak in submedian interspace ; 

 subterminal line formed by a series of somewhat dentate black 

 marks almost obsolete towards costa, the area beyond it darker, 

 strongly indented by the grey area on veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules ; cilia fuscous with a fine white line 

 at base. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area slightly 

 tinged with fuscous, more strongly in female ; the underside with 

 the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal spot and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Bab. U.S.A., Colorado, 2 $ type illepida $ , Manitou, Durango 

 (Oslar), 1 3 , 3 $ , Nevada, N. Mexico. Exp. 40-44 millim. 



3809. Andropolia illepida. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 30.) 



Folia illepida, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 95 (1879), J (nee §); Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 1(35. 

 Folia resohila, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 70, pi. 5. f. 5 (1894) ; 



Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 120. 



<3 . Head and thorax grey tinged with reddish brown ; frons with 

 blackish lateral bars ; tegulse with slight dark medial line ; patagia 

 with dark line near upper edge ; tarsi brown with pale rings ; 

 abdomen whitish suffused and irrorated with ochreous brown. 

 Fore wing pale grey suffused and irrorated with pale red-brown ; 

 the base of inner margin whitish ; subbasal line indistinctly double, 

 angled outwards at middle and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 almost obsolete with pale and black striga from costa and slight 

 streaks on subcostal nervure and vein 1 ; the veins of terminal half 

 with fine black streaks; claviform small, elongate, defined by brown ; 

 orbicular and reniform small defined by brown, the former round, 

 the latter defined by rufous ; traces of an oblique medial line from 

 costa to median nervure ; postmedial line almost obsolete, pale with 

 black point at costa, bent outwards below costa and oblique below 



