66 JIOCTUID^. 



rufimedia, New Mexico, Roswell {Cocherell), 1 S ; Mexico, Jalapa 

 {Hoege), 1 S , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 24-26 millim. 



*88. Lygranthoecia bicuspida. (Plate LXIX. fig. 2.) 



Schinia bicuspida, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 127 (1891) ; id. 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 282. 



Head and thorax ochreoiis ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing 

 ochreous ; the basal area dark ; the subbasal line pale, angled out- 

 wards below costa ; vein 1 pale ; the inner area irrorated with 

 black ; antemedial line pale, sharply angled outwards on median 

 nervure, incurved below vein 1 ; reniform indistinct, dark ; a dusky- 

 medial shade expanding towards inner margin ; postmedial line 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal area 

 strongly irrorated with black, especially towards termen, defining 

 the pale subterminal line, which is strongly incurved at discal and 

 submedian folds, angled outwards at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black points ; cilia intersected with black. Hind wing black, with 

 a broad yellow medial band bisected by the large black discoidal 

 spot ; cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing pale yellow with a 

 basal dark shade, a large discoidal spot and broad subterminal band ; 

 hind wing white, with black discoidal lunule and incomplete 

 terminal band. 



Fore tibiae with two claws on inner side and five on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas. Exi^. 24 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me, figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts 

 & Sci. 



89. Lygranthoecia tuberculum. (Plate LVI. fig. 5.) 



Melicleptria tuheroulum, Hiibn. Zutr. iii. p. 29, if. 517, 518 (1827) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 283. 

 Anthcecia dorsilutea, Wlk. xi. 695 (1857). 



S - Head and thorax orange-fulvous, the latter with fuscous scales 

 mixed ; abdomen orange-fulvous, dorsally banded with black-brown. 

 Fore wing pale rufous ; pale subbasal and antemedial lines with 

 dentitions in the cell meeting each other, the subbasal line not 

 reaching inner margin, the antemedial oblique and sinuous below 

 the cell and with some black scales on its inner edge ; the pale 

 postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein A , then 

 incurved and with some black irroration beyond it; the pale sub- 

 terminal line excurved at middle. Hind wing with the basal half 

 orange, with some black sufiusion below base of cell and a black 

 discoidal spot conjoined at extremities to the black-brown terminal 

 half of wing; cilia yellowish, white at tips. Underside of fore wing 

 orange-yellow, with some black in and below cell before middle and 

 a discoidal spot conjoined to the postmedial band, which is very 

 wide except towards costa ; hind wing with black discoidal spot 

 conjoined to the large patch on tornal area. 



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

 claws on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., 3 (S type dorsilutea, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida. 

 Exjj. 26 millim. 



