346 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



5. C. contigua Walker. C. B. M. 650. 



White. Head, prothorax and fore coxae luteous. Proboscis 

 tawny. Palpi black, luteous at the base. Antennae black. Thonix 

 and abdomen with a brown stripe. Primaries brown, with a white 

 discal stripe which widens from the base to a little beyond the 

 middle, and with two large subapical white spots. Secondaries 

 with a small brown spot near the hind border. Body 6 lines long; 

 wings 18. 



United States. 



WALKER. 



, 6. C. comma Walker. C. B. M. 652. 

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Luteous, partly testaceous. Proboscis tawny. Palpi with black 



tips. Antennae black. Thorax and abdomen with a brown stripe. 

 Primaries above with a brown border, which is interrupted at the 

 tips and by the hind angle, near which there is a curved brown 

 streak. Secondaries occasionally with a small round brown spot 

 near the hind border. Body 7 lines long ; wings 20. 

 United States. 



WALKER. 



PHRAGMATOBIA STEPH. 



Head and thorax with long hairs. Palpi short, scarcely distinct, 

 very pilose. Proboscis subspiral. Antennae short, ciliate of the 

 male, serrate ; of the female, simple. Thorax thick. Abdomen 

 maculate. Anterior tibia? unarmed ; posterior tibiae with four 

 spurs. Wings subdiaphanous. 



1. P. vagans Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me ser. X, 322. 



Mouse-color; primaries immaculate; secondaries black, fringe 

 cinereous ; all the wings cinereous below, with a black lunule. 



North California. 



BOISD. 



2. P. assimilans Walker. C. B. M. 630. 



Male. Red. Antennae testaceous. Thorax with brown hairs. 

 Wings red; veins darker. Primaries slightly brown along the 

 costa, and' elsewhere indistinctly sprinkled with pale brown, with 

 two blackish dots. Secondaries brighter red, with three black 

 dots, two in the disk and one near the hind border towards the 

 inner angle. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



