376 KOCTUID^. 



yellowish white with diffused blackish patches at middle and above 

 tornus ; subbasal line represented by a slight striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, waved, somewhat oblique ; claviform 

 olive-yellow defined by orange ; orbicular and reniform well- 

 developed, yellowish white defi.ned by brown, the former round, the 

 latter with olive-yellow round its lower part ; traces of an oblique 

 red medial shade ; postmedial line indistinct, reddish, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to slight black 

 streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish slightly defined 

 on inner side by olive-yellow, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; 

 a waved black terminal line ; cilia white with series of blackish 

 patches at tips. Hind wing pure white with fine black terminal 

 line ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with red 

 and with reddish postmedial striga from costa. 



Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, California, Sierra Nevada, Shasta Co., 

 1 $ type. Exp. 38 millim. 



3197. Oligia hridghami. (Plate CXVII. fig. 23.) 



Mamestra bridgJiamii, Gi-ote & Eob. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. p. 17, pi. 3. 

 f. 1 (1866) ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 141. 



5 . Head and tegul^e white mixed with rufous and brown ; palpi 

 brown at tips ; frons with lateral brown bars ; thorax white with 

 some brown scales near upper edge of patagia; prothoracic crest 

 fi.ery red ; metathoracic crest tinged with ochreous ; pectus and 

 legs white mixed with brown, the pectus red in front ; tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen white mixed with brown, the crest on 

 3rd segment red. Pore wing with the costal area dark brown 

 irrorated with white to submedial line ; the base white irrorated 

 with brown, then olive-yellow suffused in parts with red and bluish 

 white to postmedial line, the veins streaked with white, the post- 

 medial and terminal areas bluish white ; subbasal line double filled 

 in with white, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line defined by white on inner side, waved, slightly oblique ; clavi- 

 form small, faintly defined by olive with purplish streak beyond it ; 

 orbicular and reniform white defined by olive and with some olive 

 in centres, the former round, the latter dilated above and con- 

 stricted at middla ; a waved red medial line oblique from costa to 

 vein 2; postmedial line reddish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved and with dark points beyond it on the veins, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line white, defined by olive on inner side and with 

 brown patches beyond it at middle and above tornus, excurved below 

 vein 7, excurved and minutely waved at middle ; a waved terminal 

 line expanding into lunules in the interspaces ; cilia white mixed 

 with fuscous. Hind wing ochreous white irrorated with brown ; the 

 veins brown ; the terminal area suffused with brown and tinged with 

 red; a sinuous postmedial line ; a fine dark terminal line; cilia 



