:{(» xocn iD.i:. 



witli roil. Tore witij; ochreous irrorated with red ; suhbasal line 

 al>.seiit; anti'incdial lino Hue. whitish, evenly curved; cliivifonn and 

 orhiciilar ahsent ; reniforni a narrow white lunule deiined by black 

 scales ; the veins of medial area slij^htly irrorated with black ; 

 postuiedial line fiuo, wliitish, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, tben obliiiue, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subtermiiial line pale, detined on inner side by a dark shade at 

 costa, then by a series ot points in the interspaces ; a fine brown 

 terminal line. Hind wxwj^ whitish tinged witli red, snmewbat 

 more deeply on terminal area ; the underside whitisli irrorated 

 with red. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Alameda, Mt. Schasta Pistr. Kv/>. 2S- 

 ^M inillim. Tliis species is unknown to me ; figured I'roni a drawing 

 from type in U.S. Nat. ilus. 



4325. Apamea erepta. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 24.) 



Gortyna erepta, Grote, Bull. U. S. Greol. Geog. Siirv. Terr. vi. p. 2(57 

 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Aui. p. 173. 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; sides of palpi 

 and frons with some dark brown scales ; pro- and metatlioracic 

 c.rests tipped with dark brown ; abdomen ochreous with dill used 

 lateral purple-brown stripes. Fore wing ochreous yellow irrorated 

 with rufous, especially ou costal half, the veins slightly streaked 

 with brown ; subbasal line diti'used, rufous, oblique from costa to 

 median nervure ; antemedial line red-brown, obli(jue from costa to 

 submedian fold, then waved ; claviforra represented by an obli()ue 

 rufous striga at its extremity ; orbicular with slight wlntis-h 

 anuulus defined by dift'usod rufous ; reniform a white lunule 

 defined by dark brown, diti'used on inner side ; postmedial line 

 red-brown, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; subterminal line rufous, very indistinct and interrupted, 

 excurved at vein 7; a fine red-brown terminal line; cilia yellow 

 tipped with red-brown. Hind wing pale yellow, the terminal area 

 slightly irrorated with red-brown; a slight brownish discoidal 

 lunulei! faint diifused curved postmedial line and sliglit terminal 

 line from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal and 

 terminal areas slightly irrorated with red-brown, a slight discoidal 

 lunule and ditt'ased curved postmedial line. 



llah. U.S.A., Kansas, Douglas Co. {Snow), 1 $ type. Exp. 36 

 millim. 



Genus ACHATODES. „ 



ivpe. 



Achatodes, Guen. Noct. i. p. 13.^1852) zcce. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to slightly 

 beyond Irons, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with hair, the 3rd short ; 

 Irons with large tuft of hair and pointed corneous process ; eyes large, round ; 



