466 



NOCTTJID.E. 



with fuscous ; the subhasal line double, waved, from costa to 

 siibraediaii fold ; the antemedial line double, waved, and bent 

 outwards above inner margin ; claviform small, fuscous defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform fuscous, with greyish annuli defined 

 by black, the former rounded ; the poscmedial line minutely dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the 



Fig. 82. — Onychagrotis rileyana, S • \- 



subterrainal line indistinct, pale, waved, and slightly angled outwards 

 at vein 7 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the 

 veins and termen tinged with brown ; the underside with slight 

 discoidal lunule. 



5. Greyer; hind wing with the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., N. York, Illinois, 1 5 , Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, 

 California (Behrens), 1 cS type, New Mexico. E.jp. 38 millim. 



Genus PSEUDORTHOSIA. 



Fseuclnrthosia, Grote, Bull. Biifr. Soc. "Nat. Sci. ii. p. 161 (1874) 



Type. 



variahilis. 



Proboscis fully cTeTeloped ; palpi upturned, fringed with hair in front; frons 

 with slight roughened prominence ; eyes large, round, naked; antennre of male 

 iiiinutely biserrate and fasciculate ; head and thorax clothed with long hair and 

 without crests; tibiiB strongly spined ; abdomen dorsally clothed with lone 

 hair at base. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; ^) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



800. Pseudortliosia variahilis. 



Fseudorthosia variahilis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 161 (1874) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 211. 



Head and thorax pale ochreous, rufous, or dark brown ; sides of 

 palpi and frons blackish ; abdomen ochreous, with the hair at base 

 whitish, the ventral surface and legs irrorated with dark browu. 

 Tore wing ochreous or rufous irrorated with dark brown, and some- 

 times suflTused with fuscous brown ; the subhasal line sometimes 

 represented by dark points below costa and cell ; the antemedial 

 line well developed or obsolete, angled outwards below costa and 

 cell and inwards in cell and on vein 1 ; the orbicular a small pale- 

 edged oblique dark lunule, sometimes almost obsolete ; a diffused 

 medial line excurved from costa to median nervure, then oblique ; 



