72 NOCTUIDX. 



103. Lygranthcecia bifascia. (Plate LYI. fig. 3.) 



Schinia bifascia, Hilbn. Zutr. i. p. 14, ff. 55, 56 (1827) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 276. 

 AnthojpJdla clivergcns, Wlk. xii. 830 (1857). 



5 . Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale olive-brown ; 

 (abdomen wanting). Fore Aving ochreous whitish, irrorated and 

 suifused with pale olive-brown ; an antemcdial whitish line obtusely 

 angled outwards below costa, then very oblique ; a postmedial 

 slightly sinuous whitish line, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 oblique to vein 2, then bent outwards to inner margin. Hind wing 

 ochreous whitish, irrorated with olive-brown, especially on terminal 

 area. 



Fore tibia? with two claAvs and one spine on inner side and four 

 claws on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Georgia, 1 $ type divergens, Colorado, Arizona. 

 Exj). 30 millim. 



Genus SCHINIA. 



Type. 



Schinia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 281 (1827) gracilcnta. 



Tamila, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 176 (1852) nudina. 



Euleucyptera, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 329 (1865) ... cumatilis. 



Tricopis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 75 (1874) chrysellus. 



Forrima, Gi-ote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iii. p. 798 (1877) mnguinea. 



Bessida, Gi-ote, Papilio, i. p. 176 (1881) luxa. 



Trilcuca, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 265 (1883) trifascia. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi fringed with hair below, porrect to just 

 beyond the large rounded frontal prominence, with curved corneous plate 

 below it ; eyes smooth, rounded ; antennaj of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair and scales; fore tibige short and broad, with a long curved 

 claw and two spines on inner side and four or five claws on outer, diminishing 

 in length towards base of tibia ; mid and hind tibiae strongly spined. Fore 

 wing with the apex slightly produced and the tei'men obliquely curved ; vein 3 

 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocelliilars ; 

 6, 7 shortly stalked. 



A. Fore wing yellowish white with the markings reduced to 



poin ts luxa. 



B. Fore wing with the markings not reduced to points. 

 (I. Fore wing with the ground-colour silvery white. 



a^. Fore wing without medial band. 



a^. Fore wipg without antemedial band ocxdata. 



h"^. Fore wing with antemedial band from cell to inner 



margin - reniformis. 



I-'. Fore wing with complete antemedial band. 



ii'K Hind wing with diseoidal spot cumatilis. 



Ii'. Hind wing without diseoidal spot. 



a'K Fore wing with the white medial ai"ea broad ... hulstia. 

 />'. Fore winnr with tlie white medial area narrow . tenuescens. 



