50 NOCTUIDiE. 



inwards at discal fold to the reniform, then running down to 

 vein 2, where it is sharply retracted to the lower edge of the reni- 

 form and oblique to inner margin ; a subterminal chocolate-brown 

 mark on eosta with black spots below it above and below vein 7, 

 followed by a faint slightly waved line to inner margin ; a faint 

 waved brown terminal line ; cilia brown, concolorous with the brown 

 terminal area. Hind wing bluish white, the basal half irrorated 

 with fuscous; a faint dark postmedial line, incurved from below 

 costa to submedian fold where it is angled outwards ; a strong 

 blackish terminal line ; cilia white ; the underside white sparsely 

 irrorated with black. 



Ab. 1. c<3Brulea. Fore wing with the antemedial brown line 

 diffused on outer side, not reaching inner margin but curved out- 

 wards to join the postmedial line to which it is more closely 

 approximated on inner area, a red-brown band beyond the cell 

 before the postmedial line ; hind Aving with narrow dark sub- 

 terminal band slightly excurved at vein 6. 



Sab. Vancouver I. {Lyall, J. J. Walker), 2 c?, 1 $, Dun- 

 cans (Livinffsfon), 2 (S , Gralliano I. (Stephenson), 1 6, 1 $; 

 U.S.A., Washington, 1 d , California, 3 c? , 1 $ type. Sierra Nevada, 

 2 $, Mendocino Co., Rancherie Creek {Walsingham), 4 d" , 2 § . 

 Evp. 36-40 millim. 



Genus GONOSPILEIA. 



Type. 



Gonosjnleia, Hubn. Verz. p. 281 (1827) munita. 



Euclidia, Hiibn. Teut. ined glyphica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth with 

 slight tuft of hair above ; eyes rather small and elliptical ; antennas of male 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; tibiae 

 slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibiae not spined, the hind tibiae spined 

 between the mid and hind spurs only; abdomen smoothly scaled and without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell : 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosmg with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from ceil. Hind wing 

 with the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 6 fully 

 developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing with the basal and inner areas dark brown. 



a. Hind wing with the terminal half reddish brown cuspidea. 



b. Hind wing with the terminal half yellow with dark sub- 



terminal band. 

 a}. Fore wing with prominent acute triangular dark brown 



mark beyond the reniform before the postmedial line ... deniata. 

 6\ Fore wing with faint and not acute triangular shade 



beyond the reniform before the postmedial line glyphica. 



B. Hind wing with the basal and inner areas orange slightly 



tinged with brown triquetra. 



C. Hind wing fulvous red mimita. 



