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margin ; the medial area ochreoixs white tinged with brown ; the 

 ^ reniform very faint, dusky, on traces of a waved medial line ; the 

 postmedial line pale, erect from costa to vein 4, then strongly 

 incurved and bent outwards again to inner margin ; the subterminal 

 line incurved below vein 2, and with the area between it and the 

 postmedial line olive-brown sometimes tinged with rufous ; the 

 termen pale, with a series of dark points. Hind wing orange, with 

 a black discoidal lunule and terminal band with sinuous inner edge 

 and an orange patch on it between veins 5 and 1. Underside of 

 fore wing with the discoidal spot black, and sometimes a black 

 streak below base of cell. 



Ab. 1, Hind wing without discoidal spot ; the terminal band 

 obsolescent except towards apex. 



Pore tibiiie with one claw and two spines on inner side and three 

 claws on outer. 



Mab. LF.S.A., Kansas, Texas, '2 (^ , 1 $ , Georgia, jN^ebraska, 

 Colorado. Eaj). 32-40 millim. 



*145. Schinia petulans. (Plate LXIX. fig. 7.) 



Anthcecia petulans, II. Etlw. Papilio, iv. p. 123 (1884); Smith, Cat. IVoot. 

 N. Am. p. 281. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs dull orange. Eore wing 

 ochreous, with the lines and bands deeper orange; basal area darker; 

 antemedial line slightly angled outwards on subcostal nervure, then 

 oblique ; medial area shaded with orange, and with small pale 

 discoidal spot ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; cilia ochreous. Hind wing pale orange, 

 with some black suffusion at base ; a small discoidal point ; a 

 moderately broad terminal band tinged with orange towards tornus. 

 Underside pale orange ; fore wing with black subterminal band 

 more prominent at middle, a black discoidal spot and some black 

 points near base ; hind wing with the inner margin suffused Avith 

 black, and a black discoidal spot. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida. Eajo. 15 millim. This species is un- 

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

 Arts & Sci. 



146. Schinia arcigera. (Plate LVII. fig. 4.) 



Jnthcecia arcigera, Guen. ]S'oct. ii. p. 184 (1852) ; Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. 



Phil. ii. p. 340, pi. 6. fig. 3; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 280. 

 Anthcecia spraquei, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 341, pi. vi. ff. 4, 5 



(1863). 



Head and thorax bright rufous, sometimes tinged with crimson ; 

 pectus and legs orange, tinged in front with pink ; abdomen orange. 

 Fore wing with the basal area rufous or dark brown sometimes 

 tinged with crimson and bounded by the highly curved white 

 antemedial line ; the medial area grey with a pinkish tinge ; the 

 reniform very indistinct, dusky, on traces of the dark medial shade ; 

 the postmedial line white, oblique from costa to vein 3, then slightly 



