470 NOCXTJIDiE. 



ochreous white sufFused with reddish brovvn, the medial and terminal 

 areas darker grey-brown ; a slight black streak below base of cell ; 

 sub basal line represented by black striae from costa and cell ; ante- 

 medial line double, the inner line indistinctly waved, somewhat 

 oblique ; claviform small, defined by black and with black streak 

 from it to postmedial Ime ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, 

 the former somewhat oblique elliptical, the latter indistinctly 

 defined on outer side ; an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line slight, white, defined on inner side at 

 middle by indistinct dentate brown marks, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small black 

 spots. Hind wing white, the veins of terminal half and the 

 terminal area from apex to vein 2 suffused with brown ; cilia 

 white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, 

 a alight discoidal lunula and postmedial series of slight dark streaks 

 on the veins. 



Ilab. U.S.A., Massachusetts, Tuckernuck I., 1 S type, Nebraska, 

 Arizona, Exp. 42 millim. 



3321. Luperina posticata. (Plate CXIX. fig. 18.) 



Orthosia posticata, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sc. iii. p. 8 (1875) ; Smilh, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 219. 

 Ferigea veterata, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. sxi. p. G2, pi. 3. f. 7 (18')4) ; 



Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 111. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous ; sides of pnlpi and 

 frons blackish; tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore wing 

 ochreous irrorated with brown, the terminal area more suffused 

 with brown ; subbasal line represented by a small black spot on 

 costa and striga from cell ; antemedial line with small black spot 

 on costa, then brown, indistinct and rather diffused, incurved below 

 submedian fold; orbicular represented by a faint brownish spot; 

 reniform fuscous brown, angled inwards on median nervure ; a very 

 indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial line with small black spot 

 on costa, then indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 oblique below vein 4 : subterminal line defined by brown suffusion 

 on inner side, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and somewhat 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight blackish lunides ; 

 cilia ochreous with a faint brown line through tliem. Hind wing 

 pure white; the underside with terminal series of slight brown 

 lunules. 



5 . Pore wing with the lines more distinct. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 1 S type, Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 1 S , 

 California, Sauzalito, 1 § . E.'cjp. S 40, 5 46 millliua. 



