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Sell, tobia 8m. (48 1) forms the transition from the preceding species to biundulata ; forewing dull tobia. 
olive with broad white transverse stripes, both at the costal margin and hind-margin somewhat widened, the 
anterior one towards the base sharply defined, distally washed out; the subterminal area is darkened at the 
costal margin and hind-margin; instead of the reniform macula there is, though not always, a small white luna. 
Hindwing whitish, towards the distal margin olive-yellowish. Arizona, in September. 
Sch. biundulata 8m. (48 1) resembles tobia, the white transverse lines are narrower, more distinctly biundulata. 
defined, on the averted sides scantily scaled blackish, the subterminal area is not darkened, but the marginal 
area is somewhat lighter; no reniform macula. From Colorado. 
Sch. espea 8m. (48 1). Forewing pale greenish-yellow, powdered with olive, in the basal area whitish espea. 
with white transverse lines, the anterior line distally shaded with olive, at the hind-margin broader, so that 
the proximal half of the discal area appears to be darkened; the narrow subterminal area being darkened by 
olive, by the contrast with the light marginal area, indicates the course of an undulate line. Hindwing diaphanous 
white with a moderately broad blackish marginal band. Described from a $ from Florida. 
Sch. separata Ort. (48 1). Forewing white, powdered with olive greyish-brown, with white transverse separata. 
lines bordered with blackish on the averted sides, the anterior line distally acute-angled; the black and white 
reniform macula is strangulated; the undulating line forming 3 bows touches the postmedian line above the 
centre. Hindwing white with a black discal luna, the marginal band interrupted by white. A larger species 
from Nevada. 
Sch. acufilinea Grt. (48 1) is very similar to separata, but easily separable by denticulate transverse acutilinea. 
lines. Hindwing more extensively marked black. Colorado, Montana, Utah. 
Sch. parmeliana Echo. Forewing greenish ochreous, in the basal area and subterminally olive-brown, parmeliana. 
the white transverse lines similar to those of acutilinea, but the anterior line not so acute-angled, in the 
lighter discal area with an olive-brown discal shadow darkening the reniform macula. Hindwing greyish-brown 
with a whitish discal band. Maryland. 
Sch. nundina Drury ( = nigrirena Hew.) (48 1) has a similarly marked subterminal area as the two nundina. 
preceding ones, but it is much lighter and more extensively white, in the centre of the cell with a black dot 
and with a black, strangulated reniform-macula containing a bluish-white lunula. Hindwing white with an 
olive discal luna and subterminal band. Central, Southern States and Central America. 
Sch. arefacta Edw. (49 a). Forewing yellowish-white with light brown transverse bands, in the discal arefada. 
shadow an interrupted darker brown band. Hindwing yellowish-red with traces of a double median band. 
Florida. 
Sch. coercita Grt. (49 a). Forewing on the white ground powdered with brownish ochreous, with coercila. 
white transverse lines bordered with darker brown on the averted sides, and with small grey maculae surrounded 
by brown, the reniform macula inwardly produced on the median; the broad white undulate line touches the 
postmedian line on the discal fold. Hindwing yellowish-white with a brownish median streak and marginal 
band. Arizona. 
Sch. oMiqua 8m. (49 a). Forewing white with pale olive brownish transverse bands and an oblique dbliqua. 
olive median shadow from the blackish reniform macula to the hind-margin. Hindwing white with a small olive 
discal spot and subterminal band. Arizona. 
Sch. alema 8m. has dull yellowish-white forewings with an olive-yellowish basal and subterminal alensa. 
area, the transverse lines only defined by the contrast of these darker areas with the white discal area which 
itself is interrupted by a median shadow which may become very broad towards the hind-margin; the reniform 
macula is composed of 2 blackish small spots connected by a line. Hindwing as in obliqua. Arizona. 
Sch. cupes Grt. (= crotchi Edw., navarra Dyar) (49 a) is a differently and much more irregularly cupes. 
marked species recalling the palearctic 8. trifolii. Forewing whitish ochreous, strewn with brown and with 
light veins, with light transverse lines bordered with brown and brownish, grey-centred maculae being finely 
surrounded by black; the undulating line with small black and light sagittiform spots. Hindwing yellowish- 
white with a brown discal spot and a light-spotted marginal band. From Washington and Oregon to Texas, 
Colorado, and California. — f. deserticola B. & McD. (49 a), a desert-form from Arizona and California, is much deserticolu . 
lighter, all the tints being brown in the type are replaced by dull yellowish ochreous ones, also the marginal 
band of the hindwing being paler. 
Sch. velaris Grt. (= ochreifascia 8m.) (49 a). Forewing white, the antemedian and median band velarls. 
being broad, reddish-yellow, the postmedian line and undulating line being narrow, dentate, the space between 
them powdered with grey, in the upper marginal half with a darker reddish-yellow band, the reniform macula 
and a spot behind it deeper rust-brown. Hindwing reddish-yellow, with a darker marginal band. Cali¬ 
fornia. 
Sch. lanul Streclc. (49 a) is very similar to velarls, so that Hampson took it to be a synonym; forewing hnnil. 
more intensely powdered with olive, the bands not so reddish, more brown, the reniform macula blackish. 
Hindwing paler yellow, the marginal band narrower. Texas. Only 2 specimens are known hitherto. 
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