94 NOCTUin-i-:. 



2885. Parastichtis genialis. (Plate CX. fig. 6.) 



Hadena qenmlis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 66 (1874); Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 141. 



Pale rufous ; abdomen paler at base. Fore wing with the 

 markings very indistinct ; subbasal line represented by traces of 

 double striae from costa ; a slight rufous streak in base of sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line very indistinct, double, dentate ; 

 claviform slightly defined by rufous ; orbicular and reniform with 

 faint pale annuli defined by rufous, the former very oblique and 

 acute at lower extremity ; postniedial line indistinct, slightly 

 defined by whitish on outer side, double towards costa, bent 

 outwards below costa, then Avith pale points at the veins, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, ochreous whitish, angled outwards at 

 veins 7, 6 and to termen at veins 4, 3, with greyish streaks on the 

 veins beyond it above middle and towards tornus. Hind wing pale 

 rufous, slightly tinged with fuscous in female ; the underside with 

 the veins irrorated with white, a slight discoidal lunule and in- 

 distinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. U S.A., California, 16A2 type. Exp. 48 millim. 



2836. Parastichtis chinensis. (Plate CX. fig. 7.) 



Xylophasia chinensis. Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 70. 



S . Head and thorax ochreous slightly mixed with purple-brown ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; frons with lateral black bars ; antennae 

 tinged with fuscous ; tegulse with slight dark medial line ; patagia 

 with a few black scales near upper edge ; tarsi blackish, ringed 

 with ochreous white ; abdomen ochreous white slightly irrorated 

 with brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Tore wing pale ochreous, 

 tinged with yellow and in parts suffused with purple-brown ; a 

 sinuous black streak below base of cell; subbasal line represented 

 by double black striae from costa; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, oblique, waved, angled outwards below costa and inwards 

 on vein 1, with white points before it on median nervure and 

 vein 1 ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular with 

 brown centre and ochreous annulus defined by black except above, 

 oblique elliptical ; reniform with ochreous annulus slightly defined 

 except on inner side, some fuscous in lower part ; a curved waved 

 medial line, blackish from costa to median nervure, then indistinct; 

 postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate 

 and produced to black and white points on the veins, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved; the postmedial area purple-brown towards 

 costa with some white points on costa ; subterminal line pale, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at discal and submedian 

 folds, excurved and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3, 2, with dark 

 patches beyond it above and below middle : a waved terminal line 

 and series of points in the interspaces ; cilia fuscous with a pale 



