LY&EANTHCECIA.. 65 



a small ochreous spot beyond discoidal spot ; cilia fuscous, white 

 at tips. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, Dallas {Boll). Exjj. 20 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me. 



*86. Lygranthoecia ? obscurata. 



Schinia obscurata, Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 10 (1898). 



Head and thorax olive-brown ; abdomen dorsally blackish. Fore 

 wing with the basal area olive-brown, produced outwards to a 

 point on median nervure ; medial area clear pale ochreous ; reni- 

 form olive-brown, large, quadrate, extending to costa, on which is a 

 fascia connecting it with basal area ; postmedial area olive-brown ; 

 terminal area pale clear ochreous ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind 

 wing black, with the base yellow ; cilia black, white at tips. 



Hah. U.S.A., Pennsylvania, Latrobe (/S'cZijnuf^). ^.^2>, 22 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



87. Lygranthoecia mesceana. (Plate LVI. fig. 9.) 



Lyc/ranthcecia meskeana, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 224 (1875) ; Driice, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 300 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 284. 

 Heliothis fastidiosa, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 121 (1876). 

 LygranthcRcia mfimedia, Grote, Bull. Brookl. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 31 (1883). 



J . Head and thorax pale olive-yellow ; palpi, pectus, and legs 

 yellow, the extremity of palpi and tibiae tinged with pink ; tarsi 

 banded with brown ; abdomen ochreous. Pore wing with the basal 

 area olive-brown tinged with pink to the antemedial line, which is 

 white and bent outwards at median nervure, then oblique ; the 

 medial area ochreous suffused with pink and with an indistinct 

 dark discoidal patch ; the postmedial line with white points on it, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved and 

 with an olive-brown band beyond it with sinuous outer edge : the 

 terminal area and cilia pale olive. Hind wing black ; the costal 

 area pale ochreous to beyond middle, a spot beyond discocellulars 

 and another below end of cell and some diffused ochreous before 

 medial part of termen ; cilia ochreous and brown at base, white at 

 tips. Underside with the costal area of both wings tinged with 

 pink ; some black in and below cell near base ; a discoidal spot on 

 fore wing conjoined to the postmedial band, which on hind wing 

 extends to termen at toruus and on inner area to the subbasal 

 patch. 



Pore tibife with two claws and one spine on inner side and four 

 claws on outer. 



Ab. 1. rujimedia. Abdomen dorsally banded with fuscous ; fore 

 wing with the postmedial band darker and diffused to middle of 

 termen ; hind wing with the ochreous spots reduced and with hardly 

 a trace of ochreous before termen. 



Pore tibise with two claws and two spines on inner side and three 

 claws on outer. 



Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Bastrop Co., 1 d type, Plorida, 1 o' type 

 VOL. IV. r 



