28 



NOCTTJIDJ*;. 



subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line 

 black, slightly excurved between middle of cell and vein 1 ; the 

 medial area white, tinged with rufous towards postmedial line and 

 with grejr towards inner margin ; the reniform represented bj' a 

 whitish discoidal line on a dark patch and with dark suffusion above 

 it ; the postmedial line white defined by brown, minutely waved, 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line 

 formed by a series of dentate black and white marks, angled inwards 

 to the postmedial line at discal fold, then excurved and again 

 angled inwards in submedian fold ; a terminal series of black 



Fig. 12. — Pseudotamila ■vanella, (^ , \. 



points : cilia chequered black-brown and whitish. Hind wing 

 black, with white medial band narrowing to above inner margin, 

 which it does not reach, and with a large oblique discoidal spot 

 connected with the terminal black area ; a more or less developed 

 whitish subterminal line between veins 5 and 2 ; underside of fore 

 wing white, the costal area rufous, the basal area in and below 

 cell, a large discoidal spot, and postmedial band black ; hind wing- 

 with the costal area rufous. 



Hah. U.S.A., JS"evada, 1 d' type, California (WalsinyJiam), S S, 

 1 5 . Exj). 22 millim. 



*31. Pseudotamila perminuta. (Plate LIX. fig. 2.) 



Melicle-ptria perminuta, H. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 21 (1881) ; Smith, Cat.. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 287. 



Fore wing dark brown, irrorated with white scales ; a curved 

 whitish antemedial line : reniform blackish, defined by the Y-sh^-Psd 

 medial whitish band, which does not reach costa or inner margin ; 

 postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 4, where it is strongly 

 angled outwards, then greatly incurved. Hind wing black, with 

 pure white discal spot and another below it towards inner margin. 

 Underside of fore wing black, with broad medial white band and 

 discal spot. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Sierra Xevada. Exp. 13 millim. This 

 species is unknown to mc : figured from a drawing from specimen in 

 Am. Mus. Xat. Hist. 



