JO-i NOCTUIP,!?. 



streak from it to posttncdial lino; orbicular and rcniform large, 

 indistinctly defined by brown, the former rather pale, round, the 

 latter with slight v/hilish annulus and whitish lunule in centre ; 

 an indistinct medial line oblique from costa to below cell, then 

 incurved ; postmedial line double filled in with greyish, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, strongly incurved below vein 5, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish 

 defined on inner side by rufous and with slight dentate black marks 

 before it at middle and in submedian fold, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and dentate at veins 4, 3, the area beyond it dark except at apex 

 and with black streaks in the interspaces to the waved black ter- 

 minal line ; cilia with ochreous line at base and intersected with 

 ochreous. Hind wing whitish tinged with red-brown, the veins 

 brown, a slight discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line and diffused 

 subterminal band ; a dark terminal line; cilia ochreous white with 

 brown line through them ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with rufous. 



2 ' Tegulae white except at tips and with strong black medial 

 line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California (cV Urban), 1 J , Sauzalito, 1 c , 1 5 type. 

 Kvj). 52 millim. 



2848. Parastichtis castanea. (Plate CX. fig. 15.) 



Hadena castanea, Grote, Bull. Enff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 156 (1874) ; 



Smith, gat. Noct. N. Am. p. 138. 

 Eadena cyonosa, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 34 (1881). 



Head and thorax dark purple-brown slightly mixed with greyish, 

 lower part of frons pale with black bar above ; tegulas with blackish 

 medial line and rufous tips ; dorsal crest rufous ; pectus purplish, 

 the tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen pale purplish, greyish 

 at base and with the dorsal crests rufous. Pore wing red-brown 

 suffused with grey and slightly irrorated with black ; subbasal line 

 double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; a slight black streak 

 above inner margin before the anteraedial line, which is indistinctly 

 double filled in with grey, waved, somewhat oblique ; claviform 

 defined by black except above, with slight pale patch beyond it and 

 with strong black streak from its lower extremity to postmedial 

 line ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former oblique, 

 irregularly elliptical, the latter with straight inner edge, an 

 ochreous lunule on outer edge and two whitish points at lower 

 extremity ; an indistinct dentate medial line, oblique from costa to 

 below cell ; postmedial line double towards costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate and produced to black and white points on 

 the veins, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line ochreous defined by rufous on inner 

 side and with small dentate black marks before it at middle, angled 

 outAvards at vein 7 and slightl}/ dentate at veins 4, 3, the area 

 beyoiid it purplish fuscous except towards apex and with slight 

 black streaks in the intersj^aces to the waved terminal line : cilia 



