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creiiulate ; medial area oclireous with a claric brown medial shade ; 

 reniform dark, quadrate : postmedial line prominent, white, crenu- 

 late ; postmedial area dark fuscous ; an irregularly dentate sub- 

 terminal line ; terminal area pale oclireous, in one specimen suffused 

 with fuscous ; a terminal series of black points, rarely absent ; cilia 

 yellowish white intersected with fuscous. Hind wing dull ochreous 

 white tinged with black ; the basal area black ; a large black 

 discoidal spot conjoined to the broad terminal black band ; cilia 

 fuscous, white at tips. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, Dallas {Boll). Exp. IS millim. This species 

 is unknown to me. 



96 Lygranthcecia thoreaui. (Plate LYI. fig. 1.) 



Anthosciatlwreaiti, Grote & Rob. Traus. Am. Eat. )Soc. iii. p. 181, pi. ii. 

 f. 80 (1870) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 282. 



Head and thorax dull brown, the scales tipped with grey ; 

 abdomen pale grej-brown. Pore wing dull brown irrorated with 

 grey ; the antemedial line whitish, somewhat oblique from costa to 

 submedian fold, then very oblique inwardly to inner margin ; the 

 medial area greyer, with diffused brown discoidal patch ; the post- 

 medial line white, crenulate, excurved from costa to vein 3, then 

 incurved ; a terminal grey band. Hind wing grey-brown with the 

 terminal area darker. 



Eore tibiie with two claws and one spine on inner side and four 

 claws on outer. 



Hah. U.S.xl,, jSTew York, 1 c3" , 1 § , Grote Coll., Texas, Alabama, 

 Xansas, Indiana. Exp. 3-1 millim. 



*97. Lygranthoecia ? hanga. 



Schinia hanga, Streck. Lep. E,hop. & Het. SiqDpl. i. p. 9 (1898). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dull greyish brown. Fore wing dull 

 greyish brown, the medial area more ochreous ; terminal area rather 

 paler ; antemedial line white, slightly crenulate, evenly curved ; 

 reniform represented by an obscure shade ; postmedial line white, 

 slightly crenulate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then moderately 

 incurved ; cilia chequered yellowish white and brown. Hind wing 

 dirty white, with a broad fuscous terminal band with pale sub- 

 terminal line on it from vein 5 to tornus ; cilia fuscous, white 

 at tips. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, Dallas (^oZ?). Exp. 2Qm\\l\m. This species 

 is unknown to me. 



98. Lygranthoecia marginata. (Plate LVI. fig. 2.) 



Cambrus niarghuda, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 374 (1810); Wood, Ind. Ent. 



pi. 54. f. 68; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 282. 

 Anthoecia rivulosa, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 184, pi. ix. f, 12 (1852). 

 Microphysa contracta, Wlk. xii. 836 (1857). 

 Euclidia. designata, Wlk. xxxiii. 985 (1865). 



Head and thorax dark brown, the scales tipped with grey ; 



