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sinuous, a rather darker conieal patch beyond it on costa; sub- 

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

 grey on the outer line, excurved 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 brown ; 

 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. Underside grey tinged 

 and striated with brown ; fore wing with faint postmedialline and 

 subterminal shade ; hind wing with slight j^ostmedial line excurved 

 below costa, and double subterminal line. 



5 . Fore wing whitish tinged Avith rufous and striated with 

 brown, the basal costal area, a medial patch from costa includino- 

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

 a curved dark shade from termen at vein 4 to inner margin before 

 tornus. 



Rab. U.S.A., California (D' Urban), 2 c? , 1 2, San Francisco, 

 San Louis Obispo, Los Angeles Co., Sonoma Co. J^xj). 4G-54 

 millim. 



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

 plants : Willow and Eose. 



8020. Zalelunata. 



Nocf.ua lunata, Drury, 111. Exot. Ins. i. p. 40, pi. xx. f. 3 (1770); 



Westw.-ed. Drury, i. p. 37, pi 20. f. 3 ; Saiith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. 



p. 368. 

 Noctua ediisa, Drury, III. Exot. Ins. ii. p. 42, pi. xxiv. f. 4 (1773) ; 



Westw.-ed. Drury, ii. p. 46, pi. xxiv. f, 4; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Het. i. p. 342. 

 Nociica fliictuaris, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 449 (1818). 

 Erebus putrescens, Guerin, Icon. E.. Anim. p. 522, pi. 89. f. 3 (1829). 

 Homoptera saundersii, Bethune, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 215 (1865). 

 Homojptera marginalis, Wlk- xxxiii. 878 (1865). 



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

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

 tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown with slight 

 dark segmental lines and the crests darker, the ventral surface 

 whitish tinged with browai. 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 sinuous dark lines ; reniform a very indistinct oblicjue bar 

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

 waved to vein 5, exciu'ved above and below vein 4, then oblique 

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

 slightly defined on outer side by grey, a slight incurved dark shade 

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

 brown striae before termen. Hind wing red-brown with slight 



