TOETEICID^. 
the short apical joint depressed and exposed. Fore wings about twice as long as wide — with 
the costa slightly arched ; apex rounded ; apical margin oblique, slightly convex — brownish, 
with a purplish gloss on the basal half, more pinkish on the apical half of the wing, mucli 
mottled throughout with irregular purplish-fuscous spots and bands ; an irregular dark 
fuscous-brown central fascia, with a projecting excrescence about the middle of its outer edge, 
with a slight sinuation on either side ; an ill-defined brownish-fuscous basal patch, with 
a purplish spot near the base of the dorsal margin ; a conspicuous semilunar bi'own spot, out- 
wardly margined with fuscous, lies between the end of the cell and the apex ; above it is 
a bright ferruginous narrow band along the costa, passing round the apex and along 
the apical margin to the anal angle, separated from the rather fuscous cilia by a slender line. 
Type . Expanse of wings 15 millims. 
North America. From Mr. Carter's collection. Also in Shasta County, California, 
July 1871. 
Riley gives seeds of Tigridia as the food of the larva. Mrs. Treat reared it fi'om buds of 
Verbena. 
In Penthina Walker's North-American species are : — 
Penthina similisana, Walk., = Sericoris bipartitana, Clem. 
■ ■ contrariana, Walk., = Penthina nimbatana, Clem. 
dealbana, Walk. : see Sericoris dealbana, p. 34. 
• transmissana, Walk. : see Pcedisca transmissana, p. 52. 
ochreoalbana, Walk., = Cochylis nana^ Haw. 
remmptuna, Walk. : see Pcedisca resumptana, p. 44. 
subnivana, Walk. : see Teras subnivana, p. 1. 
SERICOEIS, Tr. 
Sericoris vetulana. (Plate LXVII. fig. 9.) 
Palpi projecting about the length of the head beyond it, roughly clothed, the long scales 
below projecting as far as the end of the exposed apical joint ; these, together with the head, 
antenute, and thorax (which is tufted behind), cinereous brown. Fore wings more than twice 
as long as wide — the costa arched ; the apical margin scarcely oblique — greyish cinereous, with 
a brown fascia from the middle of the costa, not reaching the dorsal margin, and having an 
excrescence on its outer edge, the whole having the appearance of an inverted chess-knight ; a 
brown triangular spot on the dorsal margin before the anal angle, sometimes joined to a second 
brown shade or blotch below the apex, which tends obliquely towards the apical margin : some 
few brown abbreviated streaks from the costa, a very ill-defined sometimes obsolete basal patch, 
and a brown line along the apical margin at the base of the cilia, which are cinereous. Hind 
wings rather brownish; cilia paler. 5 J" . Expanse of wings 15-17 millims. 
Northern California, early in June 1872, also from Texas. 
