62 NOCTTJID^. 



b"^. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 

 entire and separate, 

 a^. Fore wing with the postmedial line crenulate. 



«■'. Hind wing with black discoidal spot cqiproximata. 



b\ Hind wing without black discoidal spot. 

 a'\ Fore wing with the antemedial line 



angled below th e cell thoreaui. 



¥. Fore wing with the antemedial line evenly 



curved liaiiga. 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line evenly 



bisinuate marginata. 



b^. Hind wing with the whitish area not irrorated 

 with fuscous. 

 «-. Hind wing with large black discoidal spot. 

 a^. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 

 prominently white, the former retracted to 



base at median uervure intrabilis. 



P. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 



very indistinct nubila. 



b'^. Hind wing without discoidal spot. 



a^. Thorax and medial and terminal areas of 



fore wing irrorated with white impe7'spicua. 



b^. Thorax and fore wing not irrorated with 

 white. 

 «■*. Fore wing with the basal and postmedial 



areas blackish lo'ra. 



6'. Fore wing with the basal and postmedial 



areas pale brown bifascia. 



79. Lygrantlicecia bimatris. (Plate LV. fig. 31.) 



Fippona bimatris, Harv. EuU. Buft'. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 10 (1875); Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 266. 



S . Head yellowish white ; palpi fuscous at tips ; antennse fulvous ; 

 thorax pure white ; legs yellowish white, the tibiae and tarsi tinged 

 with fuscous ; abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing silvery white. 

 Hind wing white, with slight fuscous suffusion from base through 

 the cell to apex. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous 

 except the margins. 



Fore tibiae with two claws and one spine on inner side and three 

 claws on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 1 d type. Exp. 34 millim. 



80. Lygranthcecia ultima. (Plate LVI. fig. 10.) 



Heliothis ultima, Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 122 (1876); Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. TST. Am. p. 285. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown, the scales tipped with white ; 

 pectus and legs ochreous irrorated with red-brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous. Fore wing red-brown irrorated with grey, the medial 

 area ochreous irrorated Avith red-brown ; the lines white ; the ante- 

 medial line waved, excurved at median nervure, then oblique ; the 

 postmedial line excurved from costato vein 3, then incurved ; traces 

 of a sinuous subterminal line, with the area beyond it rather paler. 

 Hind wing ochreous slightly tinged with brown and with a brown 

 discoidal spot ; the terminal area broadly brown. Underside pale ; 



