CEKMA. 653 



Eah. U.S.A., Arizona, Sta. Catalma Mts., Pinal Co. Exp. 2G 

 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



3543. Cerma cuerva. (Plate CXXllI. fig. 1.) 

 Cerma cuerva, Barnes, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. 10 (1907). 



Head and thorax dark brown tinged with olive-green and 

 irrorated with black and white ; palpi black, yellowish white at 

 tips ; abdomen greyish fuscous. Fore wing dark brown tiuijed 

 with olive-green and irrorated with black and white ; subbasal 

 line black, dentate, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial area 

 paler ; antemedial lino black, dentate, erect ; orbicular and reiii- 

 form verv faintly indicated by a iew black scabs ; postmedial line 

 black defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, 

 incurved below vein 4 and excurved at vein 1, some white points 

 beyond it on costa; subterminal line hardly traceable; cilia 

 chequered brown and white. Hind wing fuscous with dark dis- 

 coidal point and difi'used postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Victoria; U.S.A., California ( Wals- 

 ingham), 1 (S , 1 $ . Figured from a drawing frcjm type in Coll. 

 W. Barnes. 



*3544. Cerma galva. 



Cerm.a galva, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 5 (1899) ; Djar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 106. 



c? . White ; tegulse and patagia edged with black and irrorated 

 with black. Fore wing irrorated with black ; subbasal and ante- 

 medial lines black ; orbicular and reniforni strongly defined by 

 black; postmedial and subterminal lines black; cilia chequered 

 black and white. Hind wing with greyish discoidal spot and 

 postmedial line, the terminal area tinged with grey; cilia white. 



Hah. U.S.A., New York, Clyde. Exp. 28 miliim. This species 

 is unknown to me ; it is stated to have a very strong superficial 

 resemblance to Acronycta fragilis, Guen. 



3545. Cerma olivacea. (Plate CXXIII. fig. 2.) 



Cerma olivacea, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. See. xviii. p. 103 (1891); id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. An. p. 48. 



fj' . Head and thorax white mixed with black and some reddish 

 orange; palpi blackish except at tips; tarsi black ringed with 

 white; abdomen whitish suffused and irrorated with dark brown. 

 Fore wing whitish thickly irrorated with black-brown mixed with 

 some orange-red ; snbbasal line represented by indistinct double 

 black striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line black defined bv 

 whitish on inner side, waved, shghtly oblique, incurved in cell and 

 submedian interspace ; orbicular with dark centre and m hitish 

 annulus obscurely defined by blackish, round ; reniform a narrow 



