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*2325. Homoliadena deserta. 



Homohadena deserta. Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 402 (1890) ; 

 id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 157. 



S . Head deep brown with the palpi paler ; thorax greyish 

 fascous. Fore wing greyish fuscous, the costal area suffused with 

 pale grey ; the veins with dark streaks ; subbasal line distinct ; a 

 slight black streak in base of submedian fold ; antemedial line_ 

 strong, black, evenly oblique, orbicular elongate elliptical with pale 

 annulus ; reniform small, irregular, with incomplete pale annulus ; 

 a very faint medial shade ; postmedial line single, fine, black, 

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

 strongly incurved ; subterminal line represented by an irregular 

 series of pale marks in the interspaces ; a series of black streaks in 

 interspaces of terminal area ; a terminal series of black lunules and 

 a pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and ter- 

 minal area suffused with fuscous, the underside white, the costal 

 and terminal areas with dark irroration, a postmedial series of dark 

 points on the veins. 



Eah. U.S.A., Colorado desert. Exp. 31 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



*2326. Homoliadena epipascliia. 



Homohadena epipaschin, Grote, Proc. Kansas "Ac. Sci. viii. p. 49 (1882) • 

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



Fore wing clay-grey much suffused with black ; the lines single, 

 black, the antemedial line strong, somewhat excurved, some blackish 

 suffusion in cell between the pale fuscous undefined orbicular and 

 reniform stigmata ; postmedial line strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line minutely 

 dentate, pale with black marks beyond in the interspaces and pale 

 streaks on the veins ; cilia dark. Hind wing fuscous black ; ' the 

 underside grey with discoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



Hob. IJ.S.A., Kansas. Exp. 30 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



*2327. Homohadena coclei. (Plate CI. fig. 6.) 



Homohadena cocklei, Dyar, Can. Ent. xsxvi. p. 31 (1904). 



(5 . Brownish black, some of the scales tipped with gre}^ Fore 

 wing with the basal area grey, the medial area black ; the post- 

 medial area paler ; antemedial line single, black, slightly excurved 

 in interspaces; orbicular and reniibrm obsolescent, the former hardly 

 traceable, the latter paler ; postmedial line single, black, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal 

 line diffused, blackish, its outer edge greyish on inner half expand- 

 ing into an ill-defined patch at tornus ; cilia dark. Hind wing- 

 blackish, the cilia white ; the underside with discoidal lunule. 



