478 NocTuiD^c. 



and beyond the orbicular; the dark area with a sinuous black 

 streak defined below by white on basal area ; antemedial line black 

 defined on inner side by whitish from cell ro inner margin, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa, then sinuous ; orbicular and reniforra 

 large, with whitish aunuli, the former defined b}' black except below 

 where it expands, the latter on inner side only, angled inwards in 

 lower part of cell and confluent with the former ; postmedial line 

 indistinct from costa to vein 3, then black defined by whitish on 

 outer side, bent outwards below costa, incurved and minutely 

 dentate below vein 4 ; subterminal line very indistinct, whitish 

 slightly defined on inner side by brown and with triangular dark 

 patch before it on costa, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 terminal series of minute dark striae ; cilia whitish at base, dark 

 brown at tips. Hind wing whitish suffused and irrorated with 

 brown; the underside white tinged with bro^u ani irrorated with 

 black, a slight discoidal spot. 



Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Cartwright, Alberta, Red Deer R. 

 (WoUeii-Do'i), Id; U.S.A., New York, 1 ?, Colorado, Fort 

 Collins. E.VJ). 32 millim. 



5724. Bryocodia pictula. (Plate CLKIII. fig. 18.) 



AficrocGelia piciida, Schaus, Trans. Am. Eut. Soe. xxi. p. 224 (1894). 



(^ . Head and thorax white mixed with some brown and pale 

 green scales ; palpi blackish at sides except at extremities of 2nd 

 and 3rd joints ; frons blackish below ; antennae fuscous ringed with 

 white ; pectus and legs ochreous white, the tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused with fuscous, ventrally irrorated 

 with fuscous. Fore wing sap-green irrorated with some white 

 especially on costal half of medial area ; the costa black towards 

 base with some crimson scales on it ; subbasal blackish marks in 

 cell and above inner margin ; an indistinct white antemedial line 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform with indistinct 

 white annuli, the former round with some crimson scales near its 

 outer edge, the latter with some crimson scales near its inner edge, 

 a quadrate black patch between them in cell ; a medial black bar 

 from costa and indistinct oblique sinuous line from cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, 

 some white points with black streaks between them beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish with series of crimson 

 marks on it except towards costa and inner margin, defined on 

 inrier side by black-brown forming a patch below vein 7 where the 

 line is excurved, incurved at discal fold, excurved and minutely 

 waved at middle with a dark streak from it to termen ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules ; cilia greyish at base, blackish at tips. 

 Hind wing greyish suffused with fuscous brown, a terminal series 

 of slight black lunules ; cilia with fine white line at base ; the 



