42 XOCTUIDiE. 



wing with tlio discoidal lunule black ; a curved postmedial line with 

 black patch beyond it extending to termen below vein 2. 



Ab. 1. interjacens : pale ochreous tinged with rufous. 



Ab. 2. luteitincta : hind wing with the ground-colour orange- 

 yellow. 



Hah. Be. Columbia ; U.S.A., C, W., & 8. States, N. Illinois, 

 1 (^ , 1 2 type luteitinctus, Utah, j^ebraska, Texas, Colorado, JSTew 

 Mexico, California ( Walsingliam), 4 c5' , 4 5 ? Havilah, 6 c? , 3 .$ 

 type interjaeens ; Mexico (Hoec/e), 1 c? , 1 $ , Milpas (Forrev), 1 c? , 

 1 $ , El Paso (Godman), 1 § , Godmaii-Salvin Coll. E.vj). 32-36 

 millim. 



Larva. Coquillet, Papilio, i. p. :)6. 



(Eedescribed.) Head 2*7 millim., green, brownish freckled on the 

 vertex, epistoma whitish. • Body green, traces of whitish dorsal and 

 subdorsal lines ; cervical shield not cornified. Skin white, granular. 

 Stigmatal band broad, whitish green, white-edged below. Dorsal line 

 obscure, geminate, blackish filled. Tubercles raised, conical, small, 

 black. Spiracles black-rimmed. 



Food-plant, Grindelia squarrosa. 7-8. — H. G. D. 



b2. Chloridea metachrisea, u. sp. (Plate LV. fig. 18.) 



$ . Head and thorax greyish ochreous mixed with reddish 

 brown ; abdomen fuscous brown with orange segmental bands, the 

 yentral surface whitish irrorated with black. Pore wing greyish, 

 suff'used with olive-brown and irrorated with a few dark scales ; an 

 obscure dark waved subbasal line ; the antemedial line strongly 

 incurved in cell, and excurved below costa and cell and strongly 

 above inner margin, the orbicular an obscure blackish spot with 

 some points beyond it from subcostal nervure to inner margin 

 towards which it becomes a waved line ; reniform with greyish 

 centre and fuscous outline on a diff'used brown patch extending to 

 costa and with the obliquely waved medial shade from it to inner 

 margin ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, strongly incurved 

 below vein 4, and with the area between it and the lunulate sub- 

 terminal line darker, this line having a dark patch on costa, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below vein 2 ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing deep orange ; the basal area 

 suffused with black to the discoidal lunule ; a broad terminal black 

 band incurved below vein 4 ; the inner area dark. Underside of 

 fore wing orange ; the orbicular and reniform black ; the basal half 

 of inner area and postmedial band fuscous. 



Hah. Madagascae, Betsileo (6'oit;«n), 1 5 type. fia^:). 32 millim. 



53. Chloridea peltigera. 



Noctiia peltigera, Scbiff. Wien. Verz. p. 89 (1776); Hiibn. Eui-. Schmett., 

 Noct. pi. 63. f. 310 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. 119. f. 5 ; Steph. 111. Brit. 

 Ent., Haust. iii. p. 109 ; Hrnpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 175 ; Stand. Oat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 221. 



Phalcena-noctua alphea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 99, pi. 2.0!) F (1779). 



Noctua floreniina, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 135. f. 2 (1788). 



