40 NOCTUID^. 



cosba, exciirved to vein 4, then incurved and with a more distinct 

 white spot at submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa 

 with dark streaks between them ; sabterminal line only defined by 

 dark suffusion before it, forming blackish streaks in the interspaces 

 between veins 8 and 3, slightly incurved below costa, then minutely 

 waved ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia tinged with 

 pale rufous. Hind wing white tinged with brown, rather darker 

 towards termen ob which there is a narrow white band before the 

 slight waved dark terminal line ; cilia white faintly tinged with 

 brown at base ; the underside white faintly tinged with brown, a 

 slight discoidal spot and indistinct dark curved postmedial line, 

 some slight dark lunules on middle of termen. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fo?e wing to subterminal line suffused 

 with fuscous black. 



Hah. U.S.A., Pennsylvania, Illinois, Nebraska, Colorado, Glen- 

 wood Springs (OsZar), 2 cJ, 1 $ , California, Havilah, 3 $ , Arizona. 

 Exj). 34-42 millim. 



2774. AmpMpyra sergii, (Plate CIX. fig. 5.) 



Acosmetia s&i^gei, Staiid. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 31; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 199. 



Head and thorax white mixed with black-brown ; tarsi fuscous 

 ringed with white ; abdomen white tinged with brown. Pore wing 

 grey-white irrorated with black-brown, the postmedial area suffused 

 with black-brown, the terminal area whiter, the veins streaked with 

 white ; subbasal line represented by a slight oblique whitish striga 

 from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, double, filled in with 

 whitish, oblique from costa to submedian fold where it is angled 

 outwards, then erect : claviform very faintly defined by blackish ; 

 orbicular and reniform with blackish centres and fine white annuli, 

 the former small, elongate elliptical, the latter strongly constricted 

 at middle and angled inwards on median nervure ; a faint erect 

 medial line bent inwards to costa ; postmedial line black defined by 

 white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line only defined by the contrast between the postmedial and 

 terminal areas, slightly excurved at vein 7, then straight, erect ; a 

 terminal series of black striae ; cilia whitish with series of blackish 

 lunules near base and blackish tips. Hind wing white tinged with 

 brown ; a diffused brownish subterminal band, the termen whiter ; 

 a terminal series of slight dark lunules from apex to vein 2 ; cilia 

 white slightly mixed with brown ; the underside white, the costal 

 area slightly irrorated with brown, an indistinct dark discoidal 

 spot and faint curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2. 



Hah. W. TuKKESTAN, Dscharkend, 1 J , 1 5 ; E. Turkestan, Hi. 

 Exp., d 38, $ 44 inillim. 



