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TOETEICIDJi. 
Psedisca graduatana. (Plate LXXII. fig. 7.) 
Palpi sliortj depressed and obtusej greyish : head grey, paler in front : thoi'ax and patagia 
grey : antennae greyish. Fore 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 
a])ex 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 fuscoiis, 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. 
Paedisca 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. Fore 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. 
Psedisca 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 shoj't 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 
