ANYTTJS. 587 



outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, strongly dentate 

 outwards in submedian fold ; a blackish mark beyond it in discal 

 fold to the irregular, incomplete, whitish subterminal line ; a ter- 

 minal series of black spots ; cilia intersected with black. Hind wing 

 nearly pure white, Avith a punctiform dark postmedial line and 

 terminal series of lunules ; the underside with dark irroration ; a 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas. Exp. 37-41 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me ; figured from a photograph from type in U.B. Nat. 

 Mus. 



1023. Anytus privata. 



Folia privata, Wlk. xi. 521 (1857) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 109. 



Acronycta monstrata, Wlk. xi. 709 (1857). 



Xylina sculpta, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 114, pi. 3. f. 1 



(1873). 

 Anytus plana, Grote, Can. Eut. xLv. p. 183 (1882). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; palpi with some 

 black at sides ; tegulge with black medial line ; tarsi with white 

 rings ; abdomen grey mixed with brown. Fore wing grey, irrorated 

 and partly suffused with dark brown ; a black streak below base of 

 cell and subbasal striga from costa : an antemedial black line defined 

 by whitish on inner side, bent inwards and interrupted at subcostal 

 nervure, oblique to submedian fold, where it is connected with the 

 postmedial line by a black streak and angled inwards at vein 1 ; 

 claviform with its extremity defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, whitish defined by black, the former round; the postmedial 



Fig. 96. — Anytus frivata, (S • 



line strongly bent outwards below costa, then slightly dentate and 

 produced to streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4 and strongly 

 angled inwards in submedian fold ; the subterminal line with difii'used 

 brown on its outer edge, excurved from below costa to vein 5, then 

 dentate ; a terminal series of black lunules. Hind wing white 

 suffused with brown and the veins brown ; a brown terminal line ; 

 cilia slightly mixed with brown ; the underside with discoidal point 

 and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada (^Norman), 1 $ , Vancouver I, {J. J. Wallcev), 1 S , 

 U.S.A., Eastern and Middle States, New Hampshire, jS". York, 

 5 d" , 6 $ , type and types monstrata and sculjrAa, Colorado. Exp. 

 40-44 millim. 



