64 TOETEICIDJ^:. 



Psedisca gradiiatana. (Plate LXXII. fig. 7.) 



Palpi shortj depressed and obtuse^ greyish : head grey, paler in front : thorax and patagia 

 grey : antennse greyish. Pore wings — nearly three times as long as wide, the costa (with an 

 appressed fold in the male) straight ; apical margin slightly convex ; dorsal margin bulged 

 towards the base — rather speckled grey, with a triangular dorsal spot, of which the obtuse 

 apex does not reach the costa ; a fascia beyond the middle narrowly separated from the costa, 

 posteriorly diminishing in width to the dorsal margin, and an apical blotch reaching nearly 

 to the anal angle brownish fuscous, narrowly margined at the sides with greyish-white 

 lines, leaving the grey ground-colour of the wing appearing as a basal patch; a central 

 fascia widest on the dorsal margin, and an evenly narrow fascia from the anal angle; 

 all connected along the costa. Hind wings and cilia brown. 1 J* . Expanse of wings 

 17 millims. 



Texas. 



Pasdisca palpana. (Plate LXXII. fig. 8.) 



Palpi cinereous grey, roughly and widely clothed with long hairs projecting twice the 

 length of the head beyond it : head tufted in front, slightly paler than the palpi : antennae 

 cinereous. Pore wings — with a small appressed costal fold; costa slightly arched; apical 

 margin oblique, rather concave — cinereous whitish, streaked and mottled with olivaceous 

 brown, with some few fuscous scales, especially towards the base, and a triangular spot on the 

 dorsal margin beyond the middle : the pale ocellated spot contains the usual three black 

 streaks or spots ; some white oblique geminated costal streaks tending towards the apical 

 margin. Hind wings brownish fuscous. 5 (^, 1 $ . Expanse of wings 14 millims. 



Mount Shasta, California, August 1871. 



Paedisca abbreviatana. (Plate LXXII. fig. 9.) 



The head and the palpi, which project scarcely more than its length beyond it, cinereous 

 grey. The fore wings — rather more than twice as long as wide, with the costa scarcely 

 arched ; the apical margin oblique, not impressed, and an appressed costal fold in the male — 

 whitish grey, shaded and blotched with greyish fuscous, sometimes with a ferruginous tinge 

 over the apical portion of the wing : at the outer edge of the greyish -fuscous basal patch is 

 a brownish-fuscous abbreviated dorsal fascia ; beyond it, running from the costa obliquely 

 towards the anal angle, is an irregular ill-defined and sometimes interrupted fascia of the 

 same colour : some short brownish-fuscous costal streaks blend with a rather ferruginous- 

 brown shade which covers the apical portion of the wing : the ocellated patch is margined 

 externally with rather shining grey, and contains a black spot on its inner, and three black 



