482 NOCTTJID^. 



(lark autemedial line bent inwards to costa, discoidal point, sub- 

 terminal spot on costa, and bars between veins 7 and 5 and 2 and 1 

 and a terminal line. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing with the terminal band broader, the underside 

 of fore -wing with the black extendin'j^ to the medial line, leaving an 

 elliptical patch round the discoidal lunule connected with the post- 

 medial line. — Toseraite Valley. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 1 J type, Sonoma Co. (Wahinr/ham), 



2 $, Mendocino Co. (WalsiugJuun), 1 $ , S. Raphael (0. Sachen), 



3 2 , Middle California, 2 (^ ^ 2 $ , Yosemite Vallev, 1 2 ■ Exp. 

 22-24 millim. 



49G9. Annaphila casta. (Plate CXLVII. fig. 12.) 



Annaphila casta, H. Edw. Ent. Am. vi. p. 114 (1890); Smith, Oat. Noct. 

 IS\ Am. p. 296. 



$ . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some white scales ; 

 antennae ringed with white ; pectus and legs mostly white ; abdomen 

 black mixed with white towards extremity and with white seg- 

 mental lines, the ventral surface white. Fore wing black-brown 

 mixed with some grey; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold; antemedial line indistinct, curved, waved, with 

 some whitish suffusion on inner side ; orbicular small, round, with 

 whitish centre indistinctly defined by black; a broad oblique white 

 postmedial band, its inner edge indented below the cell, its outer 

 waved and ending at tornus, the reniform represented by a slight 

 grey lunule with small blackish spot beyond its upper extreraitv and 

 larger spot beyond its lower ; postmedial line on the white band, 

 dark, oblique, waved to vein 3, then obsolescent and diffused ; sub- 

 terminal line irregularly waved, indistiuct, whitish and defined by 

 a brown band on inner side from costa to vein .'3, then white ; a 

 terminal series of small blackish spots; cilia chequered pale and 

 dark brown and with dark line through them. Hind wing pure 

 white, the base suffused with fuscous ; a black terminal band ex- 

 panding on apical area and bnlow vein 2 and ending in a point at 

 tornus ; cilia white, black at apex. Underside of fore wing white 

 -.\ ith black medial band expanding below the cell, a black discoidal 

 lunule and postmedial s])ot below vein 2, terminal area black, ex- 

 panding towards apex, with some white points on costa and sub- 

 terminal series of spots ; hind wing white with curved black ante- 

 medial line, discoidal point with striga above it from costa, 

 subterrainal series of irre^'ular marks, and terminal line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Mendocino Co., Raucheni Creek ( WaJs- 

 inr/ham), 8 $ type. E.rp. 26-30 millim. 



4970. Annaphila superba. (Plate CXLVII. fig. 13.) 



Annaphila superha, H. Edw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 139 (187.')) • Grote 

 111. Essay, p. 60, pi. 3. f. 28; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 296. ' 



$ . Head and thorax black-brown with a few greyish scales ; 



