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7. Fascia wholly yellow-brown, not very much darker than ground. 



21. louisiana. 



1. Fascia dark brown or heavily shaded with blackish. 

 8. Basal and outer thirds bright yellow; fascia brown. 



9. Fascia black below the cell; outer third darker than base. 



43. gunniana. 

 9. Fascia all brownish; basal and outer thirds concolorous. 



23. hospes. 



8. Base cream white; outer part dull ochre, at least on terminal 

 margin and fringe, more or less distinctly shaded with pink. 



29. hollandcma, 30. bunteana-. 

 8. Ground all luteous; a very small species with a distinct dark 



subterminal bar across apex 42. maiana. 



8. Base straw yellow, except along costal edge; outer part gray 

 and smooth looking to naked eye; without distinct sub- 

 terminal bar. 

 9. Apical third yellowish, darkening to red-brown; hind wing 



white 25. plummeriana. 



9. Apical third olivaceous; hind wing light gray. 



24. straminoides. 

 8. Base with white ground but mottled with luteous and gray; 



outer part heavily mottled with gray.' 47. lavana. 



'2. Fore wing with confused markings; with a more or less distinct diffuse 



median fascia; outer part of wing darker than base. 

 3. Base pale gray, shading through chocolate brown to the pink apex. 



27. viscana. 



3. Base and outer part more or less suffused with pink 28. aurorana. 



3. Outer part of wing not suffused with pink. 



4. Fore wing heavily tufted, the tufts whitish on a brown ground. 



( Commophtta bana ) . 

 4. Fore wing smooth, or with small hardly raised tufts. 



5. Basal third or half of fore wing whitish, more or less contrasting. 

 G. Base broadly ash gray to a fourth way out on costa, leaving a 



pale antemedial band. 



7. Antemedial band partly white; markings gray. . . .41. leguminana. 

 7. Markings partly yellow-brown, and slightly brassy.. 2. labeculana. 

 (. Paler basal third extending almost to base of wing, at least in cell. 

 7. Ground of medial and outer areas light olivaceous gray, dusted 



and outwardly shaded with black 46. marloffiana. 



7. Ground of medial area brown (or light yellow in lavana. ) 



8. Outer part with light black striae only 47. lavana. 



8. Subterminal region with a large black patch. 



9. Black patch extending from just beyond cell almost to outer 

 margin, and from below costa two-thirds-way to anal 



angle 45. zoxcana, 46. toxcatM. 



9. Black patch about half as large, and mixed with brown. 



44. hoffmanana. 



8. Snbterminal region with a .arge brown patch, concolorous with 

 the paler scaling of the median fascia; markings all very 



indistinct and powdery 40. temerana. 



5. Base of wing concolorous. 



6. Ground mottled, yellow-brown 35. elderana. 



6. Ground wood-brown, mottled with areas of bla^k, finely white- 

 tipped scales 36. discana. 



6. Ground mottled fuscous brown, with a darker, more or less dis- 

 tinct, median fascia 37. foxcana. 



