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sinuous, a mther darker conical patch bej-ond it on eosta ; sub- 

 terminal line very indistinct, double, oblique, sinuous, with some 

 grey on the outer line, excvu-ved at middle where there is a slight 

 dark mark beyond it. Hind wing rufous slightly mixed with grey 

 and irrorated with black, the terminal area striated with browii ; 

 three faint double sinuous lines beyond the cell ; postmedial line 

 double, black, the inner line slightly sinuous, the outer minutely 

 waved and slightly bent inwards between discal and submedian 

 folds, a faint greenish grey line beyond it. Undei"side grey tinged 

 and striated with brown ; fore wing with faint postmedial Ime and 

 subterminal shade ; hind wing with slight postmedial line excurved 

 below costa, and double subterminal line. 



5 . Fore wing whitish tinged with i-uious and striated with 

 brown, tlie basal costal area, a medial patch from costa including 

 the reniform, and a postmedial patch on costal area dark red-brown, 

 a cm'ved dark .shade from termen at vein 4 to inner margin before 

 torn us. 



Hah. U.S.A., California (D' Urban), 2 J, 1 9, San Francisco, 

 San Louis Obispo, Los Angeles Co., Sonoma Co. ii'.r/j. 40-54! 

 millim. 



Larva. Brown with ventral series of black patches. Food- 

 plants : Willow and Eose. 



8020. Zale luuata. 



Noctua lunatn, Drnrv. 111. Exot. Ins. i. p. 40, pi. xx. f. o (1770); 



Westw.-etl. Dnirv, 'i. p. 37, pi. 20. f. 3; Smith, Cat. >'oi-t. N. Am. 



p. 3G8. 

 Kcictua edusa, l)nin-, 111. Exot. Ins. ii. p. 42, pi. xxiv. f. 4 (1773) ; 



Westw.-ed. Drury, ii. p. 4G, pi. xxiv. f. 4; Driice, Biol. Centr.-Aiii., 



Het. i. p. 342. 

 Kocfuafluctiiaris, Hiibn. Eiir. Schmett., Noct. f. 449 (1818). 

 Erebus ptitresccns, Giierin, Icon. R. Anim. p. 522, pi. S9. f. 3 (1829). 

 Komopfera scmndersii, Betliune, Proc. Ent. Soc. Pliil. iv. p. 21.5 (1865). 

 Homoptcra marginalia, Wlk. xxxiii. 878 (1865). 



Head and thorax red-brown with some grey and blackish scales ; 

 tegulje with black line near base ; pectus and legs pale rufous, the 

 tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen red-brow^n with slight 

 dark segmental lines and the crests darker, the ventral surface 

 whitish tinged Avith brown. Fore wing red-brown the terminal 

 area striated with blackish ; a slight curved pale subbasal line from 

 costa to median nervure ; antemedial line very indistinct, double, 

 blackish faintly defined on outer side by grey, sinuous, inwardly 

 oblique below the cell ; medial area with two indistinct double 

 oblique siimous.dark lines; reniform a ver)' indistinct oblique bar 

 with white point at its lower extremity; postmedial line black, 

 waved to vein o, excurved above and below vein 4, then oblique 

 and siniious ; subterminal line double, dark, oblique, sinuous, 

 slightly defined on outer side by gi'ey, a slight incurved dark shade 

 beyond it from termen at vein 4 to inner margin ; a series of 

 brown stria? before termen. Hind wing red-brown with slight 



