MOTHS OF THE SCOPULEPES GROUP — TODD 507 



FEMALES 3 



1. Pale median line of postmedial band of upper surface of forewing bordered 



basally by a brown line or linear series of dark brown spots (plate 1, fig. 

 5) ; terminal black points usually present on upper surface of both the 

 forewing and the hindwing (plate 1, fig. 5); lower surface of hindwing 

 usually with three distinct transverse, serrate lines (plate 1, fig. 6). 



scopulepcs 

 Pale median line of postmedial band of upper surface of forewing usually not 

 bordered basally by a brown line or linear series of dark brown spots (plate 

 1, figs. 2 and 8) ; dark terminal line or points of hindwing usually extremely 

 vague or absent (plate 1, figs. 2 and 8); lower surface of hindwings usually 

 with but two distinct transverse lines, the outer line (subterminal) 

 vague or absent (plate 1, fig. 3) 2 



2. Postmedial band of upper surface of hindwing only vaguely indicated (plate 



1, fig. 8); fringe of lower surface of wings darker than ground color of 



wings aurora 



Postmedial band of upper surface of hindwing distinct (plate 1, fig. 2); fringe 

 of lower surface of wings concolorous with ground color of wings . . . zayasi 



Hemcroplanis scopulcpes (Haworth) 



Figures 3, 6; Plate 1, Figures 4-6 



Phylometra scopulepes Haworth, 1810, Lepidoptera britannica, pt. 2, p. 2C0. 



Scopelopus scopulaepes (Haworth), Stephens, 1829, A systematic catalogue of 

 British insects, pt. 2, p. 110; 1829 [1830 ?], Illustrations of British entomology, 

 Haustellata, vol. 3, p. 124. 



Hemeroplanis scopulaepes (Haworth), Barnes and McDunnough, 1918, Contribu- 

 tions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America, vol. 4, 

 No. 2, p. 122. — McDunnough, 1938, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada 

 and the United States of America, pt. 1, Macrolepidoptera, Mem. Southern 

 California Acad. Sci., vol. 1, p. 127. — Forbes, 1954, Lepidoptera of New 

 York and neighboring States, pt. 3, Memoir 329, Cornell University Agric. 

 Exp. Stat., p. 378. 



[Hemeroplanis ?] 4 scopelopes Seitz [1940-46 ?], Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der 

 Erde, vol. 7, pi. 91, row e, 3rd fig. from right side. 



Scopelopus inops Stephens, 1829 [1830 ?], Illustrations of British entomology, 

 Haustellata, vol. 3, p. 124. 



Hemeroplanis pyralis Hlibner, 1818, Zutrage zur Sammlung exotischer Schmeit- 

 tlinge [sic], Erste Hundert, p. 23, figs. 127-128. 



Heliothis pyralis (Hlibner), Walker, 1857, List of the specimens of lepidopterous 

 insects in the collection of the British Museum, pt. 11, p. 687. 



Pleoneclypter a pyralis (Ilubner), Grote, 1872, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 23; 

 1874, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., vol. 2, p. 44; 1876, Check listof the Noctuidae 

 of America, north of Mexico, pt. 2, p. 42 [12]; 1880, Canadian Ent., vol. 12. 

 p. 87. — Smith, 1891, List of the Lepidoptera of boreal America, p. 61; 1893, 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 44, p. 362.— Holland, 1903, Moth book, p. 246, pi. 29, 



1 The characters given will probably not separate all examples, but they are the best the author can offer 

 at present. The characters utilized In the separation of aurora arc based on a single female. 



4 As text is not available for the species illustrated on this plate and since specific names only are given for 

 most of the species, It is presumed that HemeropJanis probably would have been utilized. Plate 94 Is one 

 of several that were Issued without text during or shortly after World War II. Seitz, the editor, Is cited as 

 author, since the individual or individuals responsible for the name acopelopei are unknown. 



