DTSOCNEMIS. PYKOCLEPTEIA. 20' 



with large white discal patch enclosing the prominent black reniform 

 stigma ; hind wing with yellowish-white band as on upperside. 



Hah. Canada, Hudson's Bay, St. Martin's Falls {Barnston),. 

 1 $ type. Exp. 28 millim. 



26. Dysocnemis oregonica. (Plate LY. fig. 7.) 



Melick'ptria oregonica, H, Eclw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 135 (1875); Smith,. 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 287. 



S . Head and thorax black mixed with pale olive hair ; abdomen 

 black mixed with grey hair. Eore wing black suffused with pale 

 olive ; the orbicular and reniform concoloroas, the former round, 

 the latter large, with whitish in the cell before and between them 

 and with a diffused whitish band beyond them to just beyond the 

 postmedial line, which is minutely waved and slightly angled 

 inwards in discal fold, and is excurved from below costa to vein 3, 

 then incurved, or may be almost obsolete ; an indistinct pale sub- 

 terminal line slightly waved towards costa. Hind wing black, with 

 some white before the large oblique black discoidal lunule, which 

 has a white band beyond it not reaching inner margin and w ith 

 its outer edge slightly angled at vein 4 ; a pale subterminal mark 

 between veins 2 and 4. Underside of both wings with more white; 

 the black spots prominent and a black streak below cell of fore 

 wing. 



Hah. U.S.A., Oregon, Washington Terr., 1 S , JN'evada, 1 S , 

 Colorado, California, Sierra Nevada, 3 S , Grote Coll. Eccp. 28- 

 38 millim. 



Genus PYROCLEPTRIA, nov. 



Type, P. cor a. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, fringed with long hair in front ; 

 frons with rounded prominence ; eyes small, reniform ; antenntc of male 

 ciliated ; head clothed with rough hair ; thorax clothed with rough hair 

 mixed with large scales ; fore tibitc spined at sides, short and broad, with long 

 curved claw on inner side.and short claw on outer ; mid and hind tibia; spined. 

 Fore wing short and broad ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1] from cell. 

 Hind wing with reins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; C, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Hind wing reddish orange calif arnica. 



B. Hind wing orange-yellow ..'. cora. 



27. Pyrocleptria californica, n. sp. (Plate LV. fig. 8.) 



J . Head and thorax clothed with grey, pale brown, and black 

 hair ; pectus and legs with brownish-white hair ; abdomen black, with 

 some brownish- Avhite hair and scales. Fore wing reddish brown, 

 mixed with ochreous and a few black scales ; a double waved sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold ; a pale antemedial line 

 defined on each side by black and incurved in cell ; claviform 

 indicated by some black scales on its outer edge ; orbicular and 

 reniform black, overlaid by rufous scales and with ochreous spots 



