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joint about half as long as the middle joint : antennae simple : head wliitsh grey. Fore 
wings — with the costa arched near the base and slightly bent downAvards towards the apex, 
but flattened along the middle; apex somewhat rounded; apical margin oblique — pale whitish 
grey, irregularly speckled and mottled with dusky cinereous, most conspicuously so in an 
oblique abbreviated fascia from before the middle of the costa, and a triangular costal patch 
beyond it, the intermediate space being shaded and streaked with the same colour : some 
minute abbreviated dusky streaks along the dorsal margin, an irregular double row of dusky 
cinereous mottlings parallel to the apical margin, and three conspicuous black dots, two before 
the fascia and one at the end of the cell : cilia stone-grey. Hind wings and cilia rather shining 
stone-grey. The type figured is a female. 1 (^,5 ? . Expanse of wings 19 millims. 
Near Mendociiio, California, June 4th, 1871. 
Sciaphila basiplagana. (Plate LXV. fig. 8.) 
Fore wings lanceolate, three times as long as wide — the anal angle almost obsolete in the 
general curve of the apical and dorsal margins — stone-grey, slightly mottled with faint greyish 
fuscous ; a dull greyish-fuscous basal jjatch extending less than one fourth along the wing, 
with a narrow streak of dull fuscous scales from the costa at its outer edge, followed by two 
smaller streaks of fuscous scales below and beyond it, tending obliquely towards the middle of 
the dorsal margin ; at a short interval another oblique line of fuscous streaks, each followed 
by a faint greyish-fuscous shade, appear to indicate the direction of a subobsolete central fascia : 
there are some faint greyish- fuscous spots along the costa. Hind wings pale brownish grey. 
1 (J. Expanse of wings 17 millims. 
Texas. 
None of the North- American species placed by Walker in this genus can be considered 
true Sciaphilce : — 
Sciaphila primanana,Walk. , = "Retinia" septentrionana, Curt. 
improbuna, Walk. : see Pcedisca improbana, p. 51. 
afflictana, Walk. : see Lophoderus afflictanus, p. 14. 
direptana, Walk,, = Steganoptycha augustana, Hub. 
implexana, Walk. : see Teras pulverosana, p. 3. 
vilisana, Walk., = Steganoptycha augustana, Hiib. 
destitutana, Walk., is in too bad condition to be distinguishable. 
puncticostana, Walk. : see Sericoris puncticostana, p. 33. 
confixana, Walk. : see Phcecasioj^hora confixanu, p. 36. 
decisana, Walk., = Exartema fasciatanum, Clem, 
meanderatiu, Walk., = Exartema permundanum, Clem. 
perductana, Walk., = Phcecasiophora confixana, p. 36. 
hehesana. Walk. : see Penthina hebesana, p. 31. 
luctiferana. Walk., = Rhophobota ncevana, Hiib. 
ferriferana. Walk. : see Exartema fernfemnum, p. 37. 
perstructana, Walk. : see Semasia perstructana, p. 61. 
indivisana, Walk., - ? S. destitutana, Walk., and is equally undistinguishable. 
