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pecms ai]d legs orange-yellow, the tibi:X! tinged with pink ; abdomen 

 orange-yellow, dorsally tinged with rufous, ventrally with pink. 

 Fore wing pale greyish brown suffused with rufous ; the basal area 

 rather darker rufous, bounded by the sinuous whitish antemedial 

 line, which is strongly excurved at median nervure ; reuiform 

 indistinct, dusky ; the pale postmedial line excurved from costa to 

 vein 5, then strongly incurved, and with a rufous band between it 

 and the subterminal line represented by a series of dark points 

 slightly angled outwards at A-ein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of dark points usually present. Hind wing orange, 

 with a blackish discoidal spot and broad terminal band with more 

 or less developed orange spot on it at middle. Underside of both 

 wings with some red irroration on costal area. 



2 much darker ; abdomen suffused with fuscous above ; fore 

 wing with the basal and postmedial areas dark rufous ; hind wing 

 with the basal area to end of cell black with irregular outer edge. 



Ab. 1. labe. Fore wiug with the markings almost obsolete. 



Fore tibiie with two claws and two to four spines on inner side 

 and five claws on outer. 



Bab. U.S.A., Texas, Dallas (Boll), 1 c5" , 1 ? , Colorado, Larima Co. 

 (Smitli), 2 S, Arizona. Exj). 28-32 millim. 



*84. Lygranthoecia errans. (Plate LIX. fig. 7.) 



Schlnia errant. Smith, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. x. p. 235 (1883) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 284. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous with 

 olive-brown markings ; the basal area brown, its outer edge excurved 

 below cell ; a medial brown shade expanding towards costa, nar- 

 rowing to a line at inner margin ; reniform defined by brown ; the 

 postmedial line pale, excurved from costa to vein 4, then strongly 

 incurved ; the terminal area brown, with the subterminal line pale, 

 sinuous, the area beyond it rather paler. Hind wing yellow, with 

 dark discoidal spot and broad terminal band. 



Fore tibiae with two claws and three spines on inner side and 

 three claws on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona. Ex]i.2-\mi\\\m. This species is unknown 

 to me ; figured from Prof. Smith's figure. 



*85. Lygranthcecia ? ar. 



Schinia ar, Street. Lep, Rhop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 10 (1898). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dull ochreous. Fore wiug dull 

 ochreous ; the basal area brown except towards costa ; subterminal 

 and terminal areas brown ; the antemedial line indistinct, white, 

 excurved and somewhat trisinuate ; reniform indistinct, brown ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, white, slightly crenulate, excurved from 

 costa to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line white, dentate, 

 ano-led inwards at vein 5 ; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind 

 wing fuscous, the base and basal half of costal area ochreous, 



