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abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing dark brown 

 irrorated with grey ; the antemedial line white, strongly excurved 

 at middle and very oblique towards inner margin ; the medial area 

 much greyer, with a diffused dark discoidal spot ; the postmedial 

 line white, slightly bent outwards below costa, erect to vein 5, then 

 strongly incurved ; a very slightly curved whitish subterminal line, 



Fig. 27. — Lygranthoecia marginata, S • \- 



with the area beyond it rather greyer. Hind wing grey-brown, 

 with an obscure discoidal spot ; a pale ochreous postmedial line, 

 the area beyond it rather darker ; cilia white at tips. 



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

 or four claws on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Middle, Southern, and Central States, New York, 

 8 S type contractu, 2 2 type clesignata, Massachusetts, Nantucket, 

 1 6 , Alabama, 1 § . E.vj). 30-34 millim. 



*99. Lygranthoecia intrabilis. (Plate LVIII. fig. 32.) 

 ScJdnia intrabilis, Smith, Insect Life, v. p. 331, f. 3 (1893). 



$ . Head and thorax white tinged with pale olive ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen white. Fore wing grey- white ; a white streak on 

 median nervure to origin of vein 2, then cu-rved to submedian fold, 

 then oblique to inner margin, the included space being tinged with 

 olive ; medial area suffused with ochreous, with the black discoidal 

 spot of underside showing through; the postmedial line white, 

 slightly defined by brown on outer side, oblique from costa to vein 2, 

 then bent out\vards to tornus, the area beyond it tinged with olive ; 

 a slight whitish subterminal line. Hind wing white, wdth large 

 black discoidal lunule and some suffusion between it and inner 

 margin ; terminal area suffused with black and with whitish jjatch 

 on termen. Underside white ; fore wing wdth fuscous streak below 

 cell before middle, a large black discoidal spot, and postmedial band 

 not reaching costa or inner margin ; hind wing with discoidal lunule 

 and subterminal band towards tornus. 



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



Hah. U.S.A., California, Argus Mts., San Diego, in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Exp. 28 millim. 



