40 TOETKICID^. 



Psedisca rectiplicana. (Plate LXIX. fig. 3.) 



Palpi sliort_, projecting scarcely the length of the head beyond it, white : head white : 

 antennse greyish. Fore wings — with the costa slightly arched ; apical margin scarcely 

 oblique, convex ; the straight costal fold in the male not closely appressed — rather yellowish 

 white, Avith a patch of greyish-brown and fuscous streaks on the basal portion of the dorsal 

 margin, and beyond it an oblique shade of greyish brown and fuscous extending towards the 

 apex and mixed with some bright steel-blue patches about the ocellated spot above the white 

 anal angle ; some abbreviated greyish-brown streaks along the costa, and a chestnut-brown 

 shade at the apex extending along the apical margin, where it is separated from the dark grey 

 cilia by a black line interrupted by a white spot below the apex. Hind wings — female pale 

 brownish, with paler cilia ; in the male whitish towards the base. 2s , 1 5". Expanse of wings 

 13 miliims. 



Mendocino County, California, May 31, 1871 ; and Siskiyou Mountains, June 1872. 



Closely allied to P. campoliliana, Tr., but slightly larger; the pale costal half of the wing 

 not interrupted by a conspicuous dark spot about the middle as in that species, but prolonged 

 nearly to the apex, with only a few delicate costal streaks. 



Psedisca albangulana. (Plate LXIX. fig. 4.) 



Head brownish grey, tufted above : palpi short, the third joint exposed : antennse fuscous 

 Drown : thorax fuscous brown, mottled at the sides. Fore wings — three times as long as wide, 

 a long narrow costal fold in the male extending nearly half the length of the wing, not closely 

 appressed, the costa arched; apical margin slightly concave — whitish much mottled with grey 

 and fuscous brown ; a quadrangular fuscous-brown patch on the dorsal margin before the 

 middle, preceded and followed by some wavy greyish-brown lines ; some brown spots on the 

 costa beyond the middle, leaving four or five geminated streaks of the pale ground-colour 

 between them ; an ill-defined interrupted fuscous-brown oblique fascia from the middle of the 

 costa is widest and most conspicuous towards the dorsal margin ; the apex fuscous brown, 

 crossed by two oblique bluish-grey streaks ; a bluish-grey ocellated spot enclosing a few 

 blackish-fuscous scales above the anal angle, which is white ; a blackish-fuscous line at the 

 base of the cilia. Hind wings pale brown, with paler cilia. \6 , 2 $ . Expanse of wings 

 16 miliims. 



Mendocino County, end of May 1871. 



Psedisca? basipunctana. (Plate LXIX. fig. 5.) 



Palpi whitish, more than twice the length of the head, projecting upward ; the second 

 joint long and thickly clothed ; apical joint usually concealed or nearly so : head tufted above ; 

 head and thorax whitish : antennse white, scarcely pubescent in the male. Fore wings — costal 



