84 NOCTUID^. 



line and the termen tinged with brownish. Underside of fore ^nxlg 

 with the small orbicular and renilbrm stigmata black. 



J^'ore tibiae with one claw and two spines on inner side and four 

 claws on outer. 



Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, 1 $ type. Exj). 30 millim. 



127. Schinia balba. (Plate LVI. fig. 23.) 



Lygranthoecia balba, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 156(1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 277. 



(5 . Head and base of tegulte white tinged with ochreous ; thorax 

 pale yellow-brown ; legs whitish and pale brown ; abdomen white, 

 banded with ochreous. Fore wing white tinged with ochreous ; the 

 base suHused with ochreous and irrorated with dark brown : an 

 antemedial dark brown band from below costa to inner margin,, 

 angled just below median nervure and diffused on inner side ; reni- 

 form lunulate, dark brown, with the oblique ochreous medial shade 

 from it to inner margin ; the postmedial line formed by a series of 

 dark brown spots with a trisinuate brown band on its outer edge ;, 

 a terminal series of dark points ; cilia tinged with ochreous and with 

 a faint dark line through them. Hind wing white irrorated with 

 dark brown ; a faint discoidal spot ; the terminal area dark brown.. 

 Underside of fore wing with slight black streak in middle of cell and 

 discoidal spot ; hind wing white, slightly irrorated with brown and 

 with brownish spot on termen towards tornus. 



Fore tibic'e with one claw and two spines on inner side and three 

 claws on outer. 



Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, 1 J type. Eay. 28 millim. 



12S. Schinia scntata. (Plate LXIX. fig. 5.)- 



Heliothis scutatiis, Stand. Iris, viii. p. 361, pi. \\. f. 13 (1895) ; id. Cat. Lep.. 

 pal. p. -221. 



Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; abdomen white,, 

 tinged with brown above. Fore wing white; the basal area suffused 

 with brown especially towards costa and antemedial line which 

 is double, the inner line strong, highly curved and slightly sinuous ; 

 medial area slightly tinged with brown • orbicular small, round, 

 obsolescent, with dark centre and defining line ; reuiform very large, 

 with fuscous centre and pale annulus defined by brown, a brown 

 patch on costa above it, a slight sinuous line from lower angle of cell 

 to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, the outer line strong, 

 minutely dentate at the veins, bent outwards below costa, oblique 

 to vein 6 where it is angled, strongly incurved below vein 4 ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish, defined on inner side by a black patch at costa, 

 then by brown, and on outer side by the terminal area being tinged 

 with brown, angled outAvards at vein 7 and inwards at submedian 

 fold ; a terminal series of small blackish lunules ; cilia Avith a brown 

 line through them. Hind Aving white ; the basal area tinged with 

 brown; a large discoidal lunule ; the terminal area fuscous, with 

 ochreous-white patch between veins 2 and 5 ; cilia white. Under- 



