EAILETA. 



445 



b^. Fore wing with the reniform indistinct and elliptical, 



without dark centre austndis. 



B. Fore wing without oblique white patch at base. 



«>. Fore wing with brown basal patch defined on outer 



side by an oblique black line dormiians. 



6\ Fore wing without oblique black line defining a basal 



patch .■ levitaus. 



6793. Baileya doubled ay i. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 9.) 



Leptina dotihledayi, Guen. Noct.i. p. 15 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 30. 



5 . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white ; shoulders 

 white ; abdomen brown, whitish at base. Fore wing white tinged 

 with lilacine grey and irrorated with brown ; a basal white patch 

 enclosing some brown suffusion on base of inner margin, its outer 

 edge obliquely curved from base of costa to inner margin before 

 middle, some red-brown suffusion beyond it; a slight white discoidal 

 lunule with oblique black-brown patch on its outer edge ; post- 

 medial line white, bent outwards below costa, obliquely curved to 

 lower angle of cell, then oblique to inner margin ; postmedial area 

 suffused with reddish brown ; subterminal line white defined on 

 inner side by black-brown except at middle, with a triangular 

 black-brown patch on its inner side below submedian fold and small 

 spot above inner margin, angled inwards at discal fold and vein 2, 

 the area beyond it suffused with brown except below apex ; a brown 

 terminal line except towards tornus ; cilia pale brown, whitish 

 towards apex. Hind wing white slightly suffused with reddish 

 brown, the cilia white ; the underside with brown discoidal spot 

 and traces of diffused postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. IJ.S.A., Maine, Massachusetts,! $, New York (Double- 

 day), 1 5 type, Pennsylvania. Exp. 28-32 millim. 



6794. Baileya ophthalmica. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 10.) 



Leptina ophthalmica, Guen. Noct. i. p. 15, pi. 3. f. 6 (1852); Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 30. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white irrorated with blsck-brown ; 

 palpi at tips and f'rons brown ; fore and mid legs brown, the tarsi 

 slightly ringed with white. Fore wing brown irrorated with black ; 

 an obliijue white patch defined on outer side by black from base 

 of costa to inner margin before middle, sometimes with some brown 

 suff'usion on it ; traces of a dark antemedial line, oblique from costa 

 to submedian fold, then bent inwards to the basal patch; a large 

 patch of white suffusion from costa beyond middle to just below 

 lower angle of cell, extending on costa to jnst beyond the post- 

 medial line, the reniform placed on it, round, defined by brown and 

 with black point in centre ; postmedial line with oblique difi'used 

 brown bar from costa, strongly bent outwards and almost obsolete 



