188 NOCTTJID^.. 



cellulars ; postmedial line black, deflued by white on outer side, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then very 

 oblique to submedian fold, where it is angled iiiAvards, then ex- 

 curved to inner margin ; a series of strong black streaks in the 

 interspaces of terminal area defined by white above and below, 

 those towards middle extending almost to postmedial line, ending 

 in small terminal black lunules ; cilia brownish at base, with strong- 

 fuscous medial line and chequered white and fuscous tips. Hind 

 wing white faintly tinged with ochreous, the termen slightly 

 suffused with brown, a dark terminal line; cilia white, brownish 

 at base ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal point and traces of postmedial line 

 on costal area. 



Hah. Cak\da, 1 J , 1 $ , Renfrew Co., 1 S ; U.S.A., Maine to 

 Texas and west to Kansas and Colorado. Exp. 32 millim. 



Larva. Head rounded, wider than high, granular, light brown, 

 the sides chequered, vertical curved band broad, especialljr at vertex. 

 Body narrowed at the ends, light brown with darker brown lines. 

 Shields concolorous and only slightly chitinized, a broad straight 

 whitish dorsal line, brown-centered, edged by a broad brown band 

 containing a fine whitish line, which is waved, contracting in the 

 incisures ; a subdorsal white line strongly edged below with brown. 

 A broad pale lateral and substigmal band separated by stigmatal 

 brown mottlings ; subventral region heavily brown-mottled with a 

 narrow light pedal line. Feet dark-mottled without, especially the 

 oval shields. . Spiracles whitish, black-rimmed. — H. G. D. 



*2320. Homoliadena fifia. (Plate CI. fig. 1.) 



Homohadena fifia, Dyai', Can. Ent. xxxvi. p. 30 (1904). 



Diff'ers from H. badistriga in being darker grey, the ground- 

 colour ashen grey obscured by dark shades and without any rufous 

 tinge ; the markings similar, varying much in the extent of the 

 dark shades ; tegulae grey, scarcely contrasting with the thorax. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Kaslo. Exji. 32 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me ; figured from drawing from type in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*2321. Homohadena retroversa. (Plate CI. fig. 2.) 



Homohadena reiroversa, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 157 (1874) ; 

 Smith, Cat. JSfoct. N. Am. p. 157. 



Head and thorax fuscous grey. Fore wing fuscous grey ; sub- 

 basal line represented by a dark striga from costa ; an indistinct 

 slight black streak in base of submedian fold ; antcmedial line dis- 

 tinct, slightly and evenly excurved ; a slight indistinct streak in 

 discal fold through the reniform to subterminal line ; orbicular and 

 reniform with ill-defined rather broad pale annuli ; postmedial line 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 



