490 NOCTTJID^. 



with brown, a dark disooidal lunule and narrow bisinuate post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Xew Jersey. Exp. 40 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



2711. Amathes puta. (Plate CVII. fig. 7.) 



Xanthia puta, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 347, pi. 7. f. 50 (1863) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 223. 

 Xanthia eitroa, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 431 (1873) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 218. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with red-brown. Fore 

 wing grey suffused with fiery rufous ; subbasal line diffused, waved, 

 from costa to sub median fold ; antemedial line double, waved, 

 oblique ; orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined by brown, the 

 former rather quadrate, open above and below, the latter with its 

 lower part obscured by the diffused fuscous medial line which is 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then sinuous ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, double, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; postmedial and terminal 

 areas rather darker except at apex ; subterminal line pale, defined 

 on inner side by a series of slight brown marks, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black points ; cilia brown with a pale line at base. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused and irrorated with brown, a darker terminal line : 

 cilia whitish tinged with brown ; the underside white irrorated 

 with brown, a black discoidal lunule and indistinct curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Canada {Norman), 1 $, Alberta, Calgary {WoTleij-Dod)^ 

 1 $ ; U.S.A., E. States to Pennsylvania and west to the Mississippi 

 Valley and Colorado, New York, 1 c? , 2 § ( Walsingham), 1 c? • 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



2712. Amathes ralla. (Plate CVII. fig. 8.) 



Xanthia ralla, Grote & Eob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 346, pi. vii. f. 49 

 (1868) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 217. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow suffused with bright 

 rufous, the last whitish at base. Pore wing yellow suffused and 

 irrorated with bright rufous ; subbasal line indistinctly double, 

 rufous, waved, from costa to subraedian fold, with dark point on its 

 outer edge in cell ; antemedial line double, rufous, waved, with dark 

 point before it in cell ; orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the 

 former rather oblique elliptical, open above, the latter constricted at 

 middle and with its centre partially defined by fuscous ; a diffused 

 rufous medial line excurved at middle ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double, defined by brown on outer side, oblique from costa to vein 7 

 and incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line only defined by a series 

 of small black spots on its inner side between veins 7 and 2 and the 

 area beyond it being suffused with rufous except at apex ; a terminal 

 series of small black spots ; cilia red-brown with a fine yellowish 



