NO. 1283. REVISION OF SOME NOCTVID MOTHS— SMITH. l7l 



behind the collar is also purplish. Transverse posterior line puncti- 

 form usually reduced to two dots only; a black dot in the submedian 

 interspace. Secondaries more or less smoky. 



L. nniUilinea of the next groupresemblesjirmc^'ccZtt quite nearly, but 

 has white secondaries and a less prominently lined collar. It also lacks 

 the black dot in the submedian interspace, hence the differentiation is 

 easily made when the two are at hand together. In the male the 

 prominent tuftings of muUiUnea are at once distinctive. All the 

 specimens oi June! cola seen are from Texas or Florida. 



The leg tuftings of the male are not especially marked. The femoral 

 fringes are much as described for the group insueta, but are not so 

 long or so well developed. The tibial tuftings are obvious, but not 

 prominent; also like insueta in general t3'pe. 



The male genitalia are unique. The harpes are very broad, almost 

 triangular in shape, the angles broadh" rounded, the upper outer mar- 

 gin prolonged into a narrow, parallel process, rounded at tip. At the 

 point of junction with the basal portion is an elevated slightly rounded 

 ridge, toothed at the edges. The narrow process is closely set at tip 

 and along its inferior margin with long bristle-like hair arising from 

 definite pits. The claspers arise from .he upper outer angle of a 

 broad chitinous plate; one of them is beak-like and curves down, 

 almost parallel with the edge of the plate; the other is a slender cylin- 

 drical process a little enlarged above the middle. 



The male antennee are practically simple. 



The group pJiragmatidicola consists of yellow or reddish luteous 

 species with moderately elongate trigonate primaries in which the 

 apices are at least well marked if not pointed. The bod}- is quite 

 robust, collar and patagijB well marked, and in good specimen an obvi- 

 ous little divided crest anteriorl3^ The collar has one, two, or even 

 three transverse lines, but these do not culminate in a purplish band. 

 In the type form the median vein is white, margined with a black or 

 dusk}' shading; there is a triangular dusky shade based on vein four, 

 extending nearly to the apex, and this is traceable in all save the palest 

 forms. 



The leg tuftings in the male are so variabl}^ developed that it is 

 deemed best to refer to them under specific headings. 



The primary sexual characters of the male are distinctive; ver}- sim- 

 ilar for the species as a whole, yet with plenty of difference in detail, 

 easily determinable b}' a comparison of the figures herewith given. 



The harpes are broad at base, narrowing a little on the inferior mar- 

 gin until, at about two-thirds from base, the}- are abruptl}^ cut so as to 

 form a trigonate lappet, continuous on the upper margin. On the 

 lower margin and at tip are a series of long, stiff" hairs set into pits. At 

 the junction of this outer narrow process is a disk-like, semicircular 

 plate with incurved edges, which seems perforated with a varying num- 



