ANXAPHILA. 4S1 



fore wing orange, the costal edge black, a broad very irregular 

 oblique black medial band, a discoidal stigma and patch beyond 

 lower angle of cell, the terminal area black, very broad at costa, 

 with subterminal series of slight yellow streaks on it and white 

 spot on costa ; hind wing with the antemedial line obsolete at costa, 

 the terminal band with slight white spots on it below costa and 

 between veins G and 2. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Plumas Co., 1 $ cotype. I'liy. 

 24 millim. 



4968. Annaphila diva. 



AHnaphila diva, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soo. Nat. Sci. i. p. loO, i)l. 4. f. 14 

 (1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 290. 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with white scales; antennae 

 ringed with white ; pectus and legs mostly white, the tar.si blackish 

 ringed with white; abdomen black mixed with white towards ex- 

 tremity and with white segmental rings. Pore wing dark brown 

 mixed with some grey ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 striye from costa ; antemedial line sinuous and somewhat oblique ; 

 orbicular small, round, incompletely defined by black ; reniform 



Fig. 229. — Annajihila diva, (^ . \. 



white with grey lunule in centre, connected with costa and inner 

 margin by an oblique white band, its inner edge indented at sub- 

 median fold ; a somewhat diffused sinuous dark oblique medial line ; 

 postmedial line white with some dark scales on its outer edge, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa and incurved at discal fold, in- 

 curved below vein 4 and confluent with the medial band, some white 

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

 spot below vein 7 and a white spot in submedian interspace ; a ter- 

 minal series of faint dark lunules ; cilia with a slight dark line 

 through them. Hind wing yellowish white, the base brown followed 

 by an oblique brown subbasal line ; a narrow black-brown terminal 

 l)and, expanding somewhat on apical area and below vein 2 and 

 ending in a point at tornus ; cilia black mixed with some white and 

 with white tips, wholly black at apex and white at tornus. Under- 

 side of fore wing yellowish white with some black irroration on 

 costa, an oblique black medial band forking towards costa and below 

 the cell, a black discoidal lunule and some postmedial marks on the 

 veins, terminal area black with some white points on costa and 

 subterminal series of spots ; hind wing yellowish white with oblique 



TOL. IX. 2 1 



