50 TOETEICIDiE. 



margin oblique, sliglitly convex — dull fawn-brown, streaked along the costa and irrorated over 

 tlicir surface with pale cinereous grey, with some shining silvery metallic dots before the 

 ocellated spot ; the ocellated spot contains four transverse rows, each of six or seven black 

 dots, except the lowest, which consists only of three or four and somewhat diverges from the 

 others, pointing downwards towards the anal angle : on the margin and in the middle of this 

 group of black dots are some shining silvery metallic spots. Hind wings pale brownish fawn- 

 colonr, with paler cilia : the underside unicolorous. 1 (^ . Expanse of wings 25 millims. 

 Texas. 



Pasdisca fulminana. (Plate LXXI. fig. 9.) 



Palpi reddish brown ; the apical joint darker, almost fuscous, exposed. Fore wings rich 

 fawn-brown, with appressed costal fold in the male : the costa slightly arched, with a series of 

 fourteen or fifteen oblique shining white costal streaks arranged in pairs ; the first and sixth, 

 counting from the apex, are prolonged to the apical margin : the subobsolete ocellated patch 

 is bounded on its outer and upper edge by a slender shining white angulated streak, and by 

 another on its inner margin ; the remaining surface of the wing irrorated with dull whitish 

 dots : cilia greyish fawn-colour, irrorated with fuscous. Hind wings fawn-brown, with slightly 

 paler cilia. The abbreviated costal streaks are very visible on the underside of the fore wings ; 

 and the underside of the hind wings is profusely speckled, giving them a reticulated appearance. 

 2 (^ . Expanse of wings 22 millims. 



Texas. 



Psedisca canana. (Plate LXXI. fig. 10.) 



Head and thorax grizzled or brownish white : palpi the same, short, obtuse, thickly 

 clothed ; the apical joint depressed, almost concealed, fuscous. Fore wings — with an appressed 

 costal fold at the base ; the costa scarcely arched ; apical margin slightly oblique, almost un- 

 impressed — ^white or dingy white, sometimes striated with wavy greyish-fuscous or brownish 

 lines, and mottled with the same colour about the apex and apical margin, with two conspi- 

 cuous dorsal patches brown or greyish fuscous, one before and one beyond the middle, shaded 

 also along the costa with the same colour, which is penetrated by numerous oblique whitish 

 costal geminations. Hind wings greyish or brownish fuscous, with paler cilia. 4 J , 1 $ . 

 Expanse of wings 19 millims. 



Mendocino and Lake Counties, California, May and June 1871. 



In general appearance very like Steganoptycha lagopana (see page 71). 



Psedisca Mrsutana. (Plate LXXII. fig. 1.) 



Palpi roughly clothed with long scales projecting far beyond the obtuse apical joint, 

 cinereous brown, whitish grey below and sometimes at the points j head tufted above, brown. 



