228 NOCITJID-iE. 



Genus DEYOTYPE, nov. 



Type, D. ophia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely pox'rect, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with long hair below, the 3rd moderate; Irons with slight rounded prominence 

 roughened in front ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male bipectinate with 

 long branches, the apical part serrate, of female ciliated ; thorax clothed with 

 rough hair and scales, the pro- and raetathorax with sjireading crests; tibise 

 fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests and lateral fringes of 

 hair. Fore wing with the termen ci-enulate ; 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 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 



2376. Dryotype opina. 



Dryohota opina, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 178 (1878) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 156. 



S - Head and thorax clothed with fuscous-brown and grey scales 

 and hair, the patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; 

 tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen reddish brown with the lateral 

 fringes yellowish. Fore wing purplish brown suffused with fuscous 

 and slightly irrorated with grey ; a slight curved subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double at costa, then 

 single, rather oblique, angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform moderate, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black and with 

 some whitish irroration in centres, the former round, the latter with 

 some white on outer edge ; an indistinct waved medial line, oblique 

 from costa to vein 2 ; postmedial line strongly defined by purplish 

 red on outer side except at costa, bent outwards below costa, then 



Fig. 72. — Dryotype 02nna. (S . \. 



somewhat dentate, incurved below veiu 4 and with some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series 

 of slight ochreous lunules, defined on inner side by black between 

 veins 7 and 1, forming dentate marks at middle, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of slight black 

 lunules ; cilia brown with fine ochreous line at base. Hind wing 

 whitish, the terminal half suffused with brown, a small discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedial line showing through from underside ; 

 a dark terminal line ; cilia brownish with ochreous line at base j 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



5 darker and duller in colour, the hind wing wholly suffused 

 with fuscous. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Marnie Co, 1 S type, Sanzalito, 1 5 . 

 Exji. 36 millim. 



