IG2 NOCTlIDiE. 



slijllitly incurved between veins 3 and submcdian fold ; subtcrminal 

 line fine, nifous, oblique from costa to vein 6 tben inwardly 

 oblique and slijilitly incurved between veins 3 and 2 ; a scries of 

 small black spots just before termen from apex to subinedian fold ; 

 cilia rufous except towards tornus. Hind wing yellowish white 

 with series of small red brown lunulcs from apex to vein 2 and 

 the cilia red-brown at tips between those points ; the underside 

 with the costal area and terminal area to vein 3 sparsely irrorated 

 with black, a small black discoidal spot and indistinct curved 

 rufous postmedial line. 



2 . Pore wing with the basal area not suffused with rufous, the 

 anteniedial lino slight, rufous. 



Bah. U.S.A., Arizona; Haiti (Tweeflie), 1 $ ; Grenada (//. //. 

 Smith), 2 J, 1 $ tjpe. Exp. 28 millim. 



B. Palpi of male fringed with short dowiiturned hair in front, 

 the tegulic and femora norinal. 



CI. Fore wing witli the lines silvery gulnare. 



h. Fore wing with the lines brown defined bj- fulvous and 



whitish laverna. 



c. Fore wing with the lines brown defined by whitish malacha. 



*4509. Elydna gulnare. 



Sckinia quJnare, Streek. Proc. Davenport Ac. Sei. ii. p. 274, pi. is. f. 1 

 (1878)"; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 213. 



Head olive ; thorax and abdomen olive with a metallic gloss, the 

 ventral surface greyish. Fore wing olive with a silvery gloss, 

 the lines silvery; anteniedial line angled outwards below costa, then 

 oblique ; postmedial line acutely angled outwaids at vein 6, 

 then obliquely incurved ; subterminal line acutely angled outwards 

 to termen below apex, then obliquely incurved ; a small golden 

 mark just before apex and another patch ])ointed above and below 

 on termen from the subtcrminal line to vein 2 ; cilia silvery gre}'. 

 Hind wing pale glossy olivo, the terminal area deeper olive. 

 Underside rather ])aler; fore wing Avilb the costal edge ])ale and 

 with postmedial and subterminal striie from costa, the apex witli a 

 golden gloss ; hind wing with indistinct discoidal point and 

 subterminal and terminal narrow hands. 



Hah. U.S.A., PeiiTisylvania, Illinois. Exp. 40 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



4510. Elydna laverna. 



Xavfhodes laverna, Diiieo, Biol. Ci-nlr.-Am.. Ilct. i. p. 304, pi. 28. f. 13 

 (1889). 



Head and thorax pale olive mixed with white, especially on 

 head and base of tegula; ; palpi white with fulvous line at side of 

 2nd joint and fulvous tips; antennte fulvous brown; ])cctus 

 Avhitish ; legs ochreous slightly irrorated with brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous with dorsal fulvous segmental lines, the ventral surface 

 slightly irrorated with brown. Fore wing ochreous white thickly 



