222 NOCTUIDiE. 



edge of reniform ; postmedial lino double, the inuer line more dis- 

 tinct, filled in with whitish, slightly bent outwards below costii, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; postmedial area pale except at 

 costa, darkening to form a shade mixed with reddish scales, especially 

 towards inner margin, on inner edge of the pale irregularly sinuous 

 subtermiual line ; a dark line at base of cilia, which have a dark 

 line through them. Hind wing dirty white, the veins and terminal 

 area fuscous, the underside whitish with some dark irroration, a 

 diseoidal spot and more or less complete postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada. Evp. 31-35 millim. 

 This snecies is unknown to me ; figured from drawing from type in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*2369. Brachylomia discolor. (Plate CI. fig. 30.) 



Cleoceris discolor, Smith, Psyche, xi. p. 55 (1904). 



2 . Head clothed with black and white hair and scales, with a 

 slight white line between antennae ; tegular with the base ochreous 

 the terminal half mottled black and white ; middle of patagia and 

 thorax grey mixed with ochreous ; abdomen pale ochreous. Fore 

 wing ochreous, the outer half of basal area suffused with black 

 except below cell and towards inner margin ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, erect ; medial area black mixed with ochreous towards 

 costa ; claviform filled in with ochreous ; orbicular and reniform 

 ochreous, the former with some dark scales in centre, small, round, 

 the latter obldng erect with dark line in centre; postmedial line 

 indistinct, slightly bent outwards below costa and approximated to 

 outer edge of reniform, incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial area 

 black, extending on costa to subtermiual line, narrowing to a point 

 beyond postmedial line towards inner margin ; subtermiual line 

 interrupted, black, somewhat diffused and irregular ; terminal area 

 irrorated with black ; a series of small black terminal lunules. 

 Hind wing whitish ; a slight brown postmedial line ; the terminal 

 area suffused with brown with a paler subtermiual line ; cilia 

 whitish ; the underside glossy grey. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Mexico, Taos. Exp. 31 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in Coll. 

 J, B. Smith, 



Genus LITHOLOMIA. 



Type. 



Litholomia, Grote, Can, Ent. vii. p. 206 (1875) naxjcea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, porrect, clothed with lon^ hair ; 

 frons smooth, rounded ; eyes rather small, round ; antennajof male ciliated, the 

 shai't sliglitly tliickened witli scales at base ; head and thorax clothed with 

 hair and hair-like scales, the vertex of head crested, the pro- and metathorax 

 with slight spreading crests; pectus clotlied with long hair; abdomen with 

 some rough hair at base of dorsum, but without crests. Fore wing witli the 

 apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; fi from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the arcolo ; 



