82 NOClTJIDJo. 



122. Schinia acutilinea. (Plate LVI. fig. 21.) 



Lygj'anthcecia acutilinea, Grote, Can. Ent. x. p. 232 (1878) ; id. 111. Essay, 

 '63, pi. 3. f. 34 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 277. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with black, olive and white 

 scales ; tibise and tarsi banded olive-brown and white. Fore wing 

 white, mostly suffused with olive-brown and irrorated with black, 

 the olive deepest before the antemedial and beyond the postmedial 

 line : the antemedial line white, defined by black on inner side and 

 minutely and irregularly dentate, acutely angled on vein 2 below 

 the cell aod very oblique towards costa and inner margin ; an obscure 

 blackish reniform spot somewhat constricted at middle ; the post- 

 medial line white, defined by black on outer side, minutely dentate, 

 excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved ; an irregularly 

 trisinuate white subterminal line defined by blackish on inner side ; 

 cilia chequered white and blackish. Hind wing white, irrorated and 

 suffused with black, leaving white patches in and beyond cell and 

 before inner half of terroen ; a blackish discoidal spot ; a diffused 

 postmedial band confluent on apical area with the terminal line. 

 Underside of fore Aving with black spots in middle and end of cell 

 and blackish subterminal band ; hind wing with black discoidal 

 spots and postmedial band on inner half of wing. 



Fore tibiae with one claw and two spines oa inner side and two 

 claws on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 <S type, Montana, Utah. Exji. SOmillim. 



*123. Schinia parmeliaiia. 



Lygranthcecia parmeliana, H. Edw. Pap. ii. p. 14 (1882) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 277. 



Head and thorax dull ochreous ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing 

 dull ochreous with a greenish tinge ; basal area suffused with olive- 

 brown ; antemedial line narrowly defined by white and angled 

 outwards at median nervure ; medial area paler, with a narrow 

 medial olive-brown shade obscuring the large dark reniform stigma ; 

 postmedial line white, sinuous and clouded with brown at middle ; 

 postmedial area dark olive-brown, paler towards termen ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing pale fuscous, with the costal area 

 and an obscure medial band whitish ; cilia of both wings chequered 

 brown and drab. Underside pale, with dusky discoidal spots and 

 terminal areas. 



Hah. U.S.A., Maryland. Ex^j. 24 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



*124. Schinia ohliqua. (Plate LIX. fig. 8.) 



Schinia obliqua, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 229 (1889) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 276. 



(S . Head and thorax white; abdomen tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing white with the markings pale olive ; the antemedial band 

 oblique from costa to median nervure where it is angled, then 



