538 nocttjid;e. 



black striae from costa ; a black streak above inner margin before 

 the antemedial Hue, which is double, angled outwards below costa 

 and in cell and strongly above inner margin, excurved in sub- 

 median interspace ; claviform denned by black, short, with black 

 streak from its extremity to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 with slight pale annuli defined by black, the former round, the 

 lattor rather constricted at middle ; an indistinct medial line 

 oblique from costa to vein 2, then incurved; postmedial line defined 

 by greyish on outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate, angled inwards at discal fold, very oblique below 

 vein 5, incurved and stronger in submedian interspace, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; the veins of terminal area with slight 

 dark streaks ; subterminal line white, dentate, defined on inner 

 side by wedge-shaped black marks and by a streak above vein 4 

 extending to reniform ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia fuscous and grey intersected with whitish. Hind wing whitish, 

 the marginal areas suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; a discoidal 

 spot and indistinct sinuous postmedial line : some white on termen 

 towards tornus ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia white with a 

 fuscous line through them ; the underside white with the costal 

 and terminal areas to vein 2 irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal spot 

 and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



llab. U.S.A., Arizona {Poling), 1 £ • Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus AMIANA. 



Type. 



Amiana, Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. vi. p. 104 (1904) mama. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, short, the 2nd joint fringed with 

 hair in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons with rounded prominence with corneous 

 plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antennas of male laminate, almost simple; 

 head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with 

 spreading crests ; tibiaa moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal 

 crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing witli the postmedial area white except towards 



costa hetabilis. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial area not white. 



a. Fore wing tinged with rufous continens. 



I. Fore wing black-brown mixed with grey mama. 



4269. Amiana laetabilis. 



Hadcna l<etahili$, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxi. p. 2(i3 (1899) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. 

 N. Am. p. 115. 



S . Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey ; patagia 

 with some black scales near upper edge ; tarsi blackish ringed with 



