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and vein 1 ; traces of an oblique pink autemedial line across 

 SLibmedian interspace ; a pink streak beyond the cell in discal fold 

 to the faint postmedial line, which is oblique from costa near apex 

 to submedian fold, where it is angled. Hind wing yellowish white 

 tinged with fuscous, the terminal area with pink. Underside 

 of fore wing suffused with fuscous, the apex with pink. 

 Hah. U.S.A., Kansas, 1 § type. Exp. 36 millim. 



73. Thyreion rosea. (Plate LV. fig. 27.) 



Thi/remi rosea, Smith, Traus. Am. Eiit. Soe. xviii. p. 121 (1891) ; id. Oat. 

 ^^oct. N. Am. p. 268. 



Head and thorax very pale yellow ; palpi and fore legs tinged 

 with pink ; antenna3 fulvous ; abdomen white mixed with fuscous. 

 Fore wing very pale yellow, with diffused blood-red streak below 

 base of cell and traces of an oblique postmedial band as patches 

 in discal and submedian folds. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the 

 cilia white. Underside of fore wing fuscous brown except inner 

 area ; hind wing white, the inner area tinged with purplish pink, 

 especially towards tornus. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 ? , S. Park. Ex}). 34 millim. 



Larva (original). — Head round, bilobed, compact and smooth, 

 shining dark brown, sutures and rims of lobes posteriorly blackish. 

 Cervical shield large, transverse, rounded before, scarcely notched 

 behind, shining light brown, the two detached setae on the lower 

 side not on a shield. Thoracic feet light brown. Body opaquely 

 white ; tubercles small, brown, with short dark setse. Anal plate 

 shining brown with dark tubercles. Spiracles brown-rimmed. 

 Feet normal, the crochets in a neat half-circle on inner side of 

 planta. Tubercle iv at lower corner of spiracle. 



Food-plant, Allium, eating within the leaf and eventually down 

 to the bulb. At Denver, Col.— H. G. D. 



74. Thyreion ligese. (Plate LV. fig. 28.) 



Schinia ligea. Smith, Insect Life, v. p. 326, f. 2 (1893). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing 

 rather narrow, silky white ; the basal area suffused with dull red 

 towards the autemedial line, which is oblique from costa to just 

 below cell, where it is sharply angled, then inwardly oblique ; the 

 postmedial line defined by a dull red band on outer side, excurved 

 from costa to vein 4, then incurved. Hind wing suffused with 

 fuscotts brown,; the cilia yellowish white. Underside of fore wing 

 suffused with fuscous except the margins ; hind wing slightlj- 

 tinged with fuscous ; an indistinct discoidal bar. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Argus Mts., 1 6 . Exp. 28 millim. 



