346 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



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



White. Head, prothorax and fore coxa; luteous. Proboscis 



tawny. Palpi black, luteous at tlie base. Antennae black. Thorax 



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. 



Luteous, partly testaceous. Proboscis tawny. Palpi with black 



tips. Antennoe 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 T lines long; wings 20. 



United States. 



Walkek. 



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 tibiae unarmed ; posterior tibiee with four 

 spurs. Wings subdiaphanous. 



1. P. vagana 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. Antennas 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. 



