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and terminal bands obsolescent towards tornus. Underside of 

 fore wing with the costal area suffused with fuscous, a discoidal 

 spot ; hind wing with slight discoidal spot. 



Fore tibise with one claw and two spines on inner side and two 

 claws on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas 1 $ , Colorado. Exp. 34 millim. 



*109. Scliinia teiiuescens. (Plate LXIX. fig. 3.) 



Lygranthoecia tenuescens, Grote, Can. Eiit. xv. p. 128 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 275. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen silvery white. Fore wing with the 

 basal area pale olive, bounded by the antemedial dark line, which 

 is strongly excurved below cell ; the medial area silvery white, very 

 narrow and bounded by the irregularly waved postmedial dark line, 

 which is excurved between veins 4 and 2, then incurved ; terminal 

 area pale olive, with the waved white subterminal line on it. Hind 

 wing white, the termen shaded with olive. 



Fore tibise with one claw and two spines on inner side and two 

 claws on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona. Exp. 2'2 millim. This species is un- 

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

 Arts & Sci. 



110. Schinia ciliata. (Plate LIX. fig. 10.) 

 Schinia ciliata, Smith, P. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 488 (1900). 



§ . Head yellow in front, the vertex and thorax clothed with 

 creamy-white and rufous scales ; abdomen white. Fore wing with 

 the basal area ochreous mixed with rufous, then silvery white to 

 the subterminal line, the terminal area creamy white ; a rather 

 broad ochreous and rufous medial band with irregularly Avaved 

 edges, oblique from cost-a to lower angle of cell, where it is angled 

 and almost conjoined to the brown reniform stigma ; subterminal 

 line rufous, interrupted and punctiform ; a rufous spot on termen 

 below apex and some points on termen from it to vein 3. Hind 

 wing white ; the termen narrowly dusky. Underside of fore wing 

 blackish except on inner margin and at apex ; hind wing white, 

 with a black spot on termen below middle. 



Fore tibite with one claw and three spines on inner side and two 

 claws and two spines on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Mexico, Hot Springs, Roswell (CocJierell), 

 1 5 . Exp. 22 millim. 



111. Schinia chrysella. (Plate LYI. fig. 12.) 



Triccpis clirysellus, Gi'ote. Bull. BufF. Soe. Xat. Sci. ii. p. 7G (1874) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 274. 

 Helioihis conchula, Felcl. Reis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 41 (1874). 



Head and thorax pale ferruginous mixed with whitish ; abdomen 

 white, slightly tinged with ochreous. Fore wing silvery white ; 

 the base pale ferruginous, with its outer edge somewhat concave ; 



