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1879, August 25 (Pergande, Koebele, Busck, Caudell); i 9> Ohio 

 (W. C. Metz); i J 1 , Aurora, W. Va., August 30, 1904 (O. Heide- 

 mann); 4 rf, 6 9> Rhinebeck, N. Y., August 1885, July 27, 1S87, 

 July 8, 30, 1888, Ulster Co., N. Y., September 6, 1887, July 2, 16, 

 1888 (H.G. Dyar). 



The larva appears to be undescribed. Hart remarks that it is 

 " doubtless very close to " that of the preceding species. The adult 

 is common throughout the Atlantic states and Mississippi valley, flying 



over water. 



Nymphula obliterans Walker. 

 Fsopteryx ? obliteralis ^NaWer, Cat. Brit. Mus. , xvii, 399, 1859. 

 Paraponyx obscuralis Moschler, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien., 432, 1872. 

 Hydrocampa proprialis Fernald, Ent. Amer., iv, 37, 1888. 

 Hydrocampa oblileialis Fernald, Smith List Lep. Bor. Am., no. 4167, 1891. 

 Hydrocampa obliteralis Hart, Bull. 111. Sta. lab. nat. hist., iv, 176, PL II, figs. 7-12, 



1895. 

 Nymphula obliteralis Hampson, Trans, ent. soc. Lond., 141, 1S97. 

 Nymphula obliteralis Fernald, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4496, 1903. 



$ . All obscured, blackish or brown. Discal dot small, white, surrounded by a 

 white line, which may expand into a cloud, touching costa ; a faint lighter line across 

 middle of wing and a subbasal dilution. Hind wing blackish brown with a faint 

 mesial white line. Lighter specimens approach the female more closely in mark- 

 ings. Expanse 13 mm. 



. Lighter, the marks less obscured. The ground color is overspread with 

 blackish and ocherous ; a subbasal dark line edged with white without ; a median 

 shade, black, edged with white without, expanded below, sending a black shade 

 about the large white reniform discal spot ; a subterminal black shade. Hind wing 

 with the mesial lines pale, joining at the anal angle, enclosing a pale discal mark on 

 a dark ground, or nearly completely overspread with brown. Expanse 28 mm. 



Fla., Tex. (Fernald); 111. (Hart). 



1 r^, 1 $ " from aquatic larva on water lilies" Florida, March, 

 1888, no. 4261 (U. S. Dept. Agriculture) ; 1 J 1 , Texas (Boll) ; 2 J\ 

 Victoria, Texas (E. A. Schwarz) ; 1^,1 9> Somerville, S. C, 

 April, 1899 (R. Ottolengui) ; 1 9, Palm Beach, Fla., February 4, 

 1900 (H. G. Dyar) ; 1 (j 1 , 2 9, Rhinebeck, N. Y., August 9, 

 1887, July 26, August 18, 1888 (H. G. Dyar); 1 9, West Palm 

 Beach, Fla. (Dyar & Caudell) ; 2 $, Green Cove Springs, Fla., 

 March (Dyar &: Caudell) ; 1 J 1 , 3 9, St. Louis, Mo., July 14, 

 August 28, September 25, 1904 (H. McElhose) ; 3 9> Los Angeles, 

 Cal. (D. W. Coquillett) ; 1 9, Fla. (coll. Prof. C. H. Fernald); 

 1 9> Texas, labelled "Hydrocampa gym lis Hulst, type" in Dr. 

 Hulst's writing (coll. Prof. C. H. Fernald) ; 1 9, Claremont, Cal. 

 (C. F. Baker). 



