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margin ; a subobsolete tawny-speckled central fascia^ with some fuscous scales posterioi'ly 

 before tbe anal angle, followed by an indistinct ocellated spot containing two black streaks, 

 with a patch of mixed ashy grey and tawny shading above it : cilia gi'eyish, tipped with 

 fuscous, with a pale tawny line along their base. Hind wings dingy greyish. Type cj . 

 Expanse of wings 14 millims. 



Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



Paedisca pulveratana. (Plate LXX. fig. 6.) 



Head, palpi, and antennae dusty whitish grey; thorax grey. Fore wings — three times as 

 long as wide ; the costa scarcely arched — whitish grey, much irrorated with pale brownish 

 fuscous, with two brownish-fuscous pale-margined half-fascise sloping obliquely outwards 

 from the dorsal margin; some minute brownish-fuscous spots or streaks along the costa ; 

 and before the apex a fuscous shade, through which are some rather shining greyish lines 

 margined with brownish fuscous, running towards the dorsal margin ; a streak or spot of 

 shining grey at the anal angle. Hind wings brownish grey ; cilia paler. 4 ^ . Expanse 

 of wings 15-19 millims. 



San Francisco, May 16th, 1871. I have also received it from Texas. 



PsBdisca primulana. (Plate LXX. fig. 7.) 



Palpi slightly drooping, tapering, and clothed to their points, together with the head, 

 thorax, and antennse pale primrose, the latter faintly annulated and pubescent in the male. 

 Fore wings — more than twice as long as wide ; the costa arched ; apical margin very oblique, 

 convex; a small inconspicuous costal fold in the male closely appressed — pale primrose 

 watered as it wei-e with rather shining pearly-white streaks, which sometimes enclose an 

 oblique olivaceous streak from beyond the middle of the costa to a point above the anal 

 angle, and an elongated olivaceous spot below the costa before the apex. Hind wings and 

 abdomen grey, with paler cilia. Female smaller than the male ; fore wings slightly narrower 

 and more acute. 6 c?j 1 ? • Expanse of wings 17-20 millims 



Mendocino County, June 10th, 1871. 



Paedisca Mquadrana. (Plate LXX. fig. 8.) 



Head, palpi, and antennae greyish brown; palpi obtuse, slightly depressed, extending 

 more than the length of the head beyond it ; thickly clothed to the apex : antennae of the 

 male having a serrated appearance. Anterior wings — with a short appressed costal fold near 

 the base in the male; the costa slightly arched; hind margin oblique — whitish much streaked 

 with wavy brown and fuscous lines ; a pale fuscous shade runs along the upper edge of the 

 cell; some fuscous scales at the apical margin and at the apex, within which is a small 

 ferruginous-brown triangle, crossed by several slender blackish-fuscous lines; four or five 



