SCHINIA. 85 



side white ; fore wing with small black orbicular and large reniform 

 ■stigmata. 



Fore tibiae with one claw and one spine on inner side and two 

 ■claws on outer. 



Hah. Mongolia, Uliassutai, 1 c? , 1 $ • E^vi?. 34-36 millim. 



*129. Schinia arefacta. (Plate LXIX. fig. 6.) 



Tamila arefacta, H. Edw. Pap. iv. p.' 123 (1884) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 276. 



c? . Head and thorax creamy white ; abdomen reddish. Fore 

 wing creamy white, Avith the bands pale brown ; the basal shade 

 not reaching the costa ; medial shade waved with an interrupted 

 band of rich dark brown on it ; the postmedial shade with waved 

 edges with a few darlv brown scales on them representing the post- 

 medial and subterminal lines. Hind wing reddish buff, with traces 

 ■of double medial band. Underside deep buff ; fore wing with a 

 reddish tinge, the discal spot prominent. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida. Eccp. 20 ymWim. This species is unknown 

 to me, figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. 



*130. Schinia dolosa. 



Schinia dolosa, Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het., Suppl. i. p. 9 (1898). 



Head and thorax dull greyish brown ; abdomen whitish. Fore 

 wing dull greyish brown ; the basal and subterminal areas some- 

 times darker than the medial area ; the lines whitish, distinct or ill- 

 defined ; the antemedial line evenly curved ; the postmedial line fine, 

 white, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved. Hind wing 

 white, with black discoidal spot and broad, even, terminal black band; 

 cilia white or white and fuscous. Underside white suffused with 

 fuscous, the markings indistinct. 



Hah. Texas, San Antonio {Boll). Exp. 22-25 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



131. Schinia ciipes. (Plate LYII. fig. 2.) 



Heliothis ciipes, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 113 (1875) : id. Bull. 



Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 311, pi. iii. f. 4 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am 



p. 280. 

 Heliothis crotchii,.Ii. Edw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. ri. p. 135 (1875). 



(S . Head and thorax whitish mixed with pale brown, some of the 

 scales tipped with black ; abdomen ochreous white, dorsally tinged with 

 broAvn. Fore wing ochreous white, tinged and irrorated with brown 

 leaving the veins pale ; a pale sinuous subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold defined on inner side by brown ; a pale antemedial 

 line defined by brown, slightlj^ angled outwards below costa and 

 excurved below cell ; the orbicular and reniform with grey centres, 

 and brownish annuli defined by black ; the postmedial line pale 

 defined by brown, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards 

 in discal fold and strongly incurved below vein 3 ; a subterminal 



