224 NOCTUIDiE. 



white ; abdomen grey tinged with brown. Fore wing grey-white 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous ; a black subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct, 

 the outer prominent, waved ; claviform defined by black above at 

 extremity ; orbicular white, defined by black at sides, open above 

 and below ; reniform with fuscous centre and white annulus defined 

 by black ; medial line prominent, black, with a faint rufous tinge be- 

 j-ond it, slightly incurved from costa to median nervure, then slightly 

 excurved ; postmedial line double, produced to slight black streaks 

 on the veins, oblique from costa to vein 6, incurved at discal fold 

 and below vein 4 ; subterminal line ill-defined, whitish, waved, 

 defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a waved black terminal line. Hind wing grey 

 tinged with fuscous ; the cilia white ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with fuscous, a small discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Vancouver I. {W. H. Danhy), 3 d, 2 $. Exp. 

 32-34 millim. 



Genus HILLIA. 



Typo. 



Hillia, Grote, Proc. Am. Phil. Soo. xxi. p. 168 (1883) iris. 



Crasia, Auriv. Nord. Fjaril. p. 162 (1891) iris. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with 

 long hair in front ; eyes large, rounded ; frons with large tuft of hair ; antennas 

 of male typically ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like 

 scales, the vertex of head, pro- and metathorax, and shoulders with well-developed 

 spreading crests ; femora and tibias fringed with hair ; abdomen with some 

 rough hair at base but without crests. Pore wing with the apex rectangular, 

 the termen slightly angled at middle, then oblique ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with rather short branches ending in 

 a bristle, the apical part serrate. 



A. Fore wing -suffused with black from near base to near sub- 



terminal line discinigra. 



B. Fore wing not suffused with black alge.ns. 



2372. Hillia discinigra. (Plate CI. fig. 32.) 



Bryo-pUla discinigra,^^^ . ix. 28 (1866); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 148. 



$ . Head and thorax black mixed with grey-white ; tegulae 

 whitish, tlie basal half tinged with ochreous, a strong black medial 

 line and fuscous tips ; abdomen ochreous grey mixed with dark 

 brown. Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous black irom near base 

 to near subterminal line, the outer edge of the dark suffusion 

 obli(|ue ; subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa : 

 an indistinct oblique waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 slightly defined by black, the former somewhat oblique elliptical 



