

198 

 Opekophteka boreata Hiibner. I'hilc 9, fig. 81. 



•* (konwira hnmita Hubu., Schm. Eur., tig. 413, 414, 1790." 

 OjH-rophhra honala Iliibn., Verz., 321, 1818. 

 Aciclalia hnreata Treits., Suppl., 204. 

 Lareiilia bonula Boisd., Gen. lud., 204, 1840. 



Diip., Lep. France, Siippl. iv, :i2, pi. iJ3, fig. 3, 1842. 

 Cheimatobia boreata H.-Scb., Scbm. Eur., iii, 177, tig. suppl. 333, 1847. 



Stopb., Cat. Brit. Lep., 107, 1850. 



Guen., Pbal., ii, 2G0, 1857. 



Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xsiv, 1167, 1862. 



17 J. — Body and wings, including the head and palpi, uniformly tes- 

 taceous or dull ochreous-brown. AVings thin, semi-transparent. ■ Fore wings 

 with about eight well-marked scalloped lines, the points of the scallops black, 

 ;uid usually resting on the veins. The middle and extradiscal lines are curved 

 outward just below the costa, the three extradiscal lines being close together 

 and toniiing a mesial shade on the wing, but the three submarginal lines 

 l)eyond are not curved. Discal dot distinct and black. Fringe concolorous 

 with the wings, witli black venular dots. Hind wings clear, witii a faint 

 extradiscal ditiuse line curved opposite the distinct discal dot; this line is 

 often obsolete; beneath, this and the extradiscal line make a diffuse shade 

 common to both wings. Discal dots distinct on both wings. 



Length of body, <?, 0.32-0.48; fore wing, S, 0.46-0.65; expanse of 

 wings, 0.95-1.30 inches. 



9. — The female has not yet occurred in collections in this country. 



A single female horeata, so labeled by Zeller, is pale gray, with simple an- 



tenufe. The front of tlie head is dark brown or chocolate-color; the palpi at 



base concolorous with the body, the last joint chocolate-brown, and both pairs 



of wings are rather large and broad, rounded at the end with a long fringe and 



reaching to the apical fourth of the abdomen. The legs are gray, and the 



hinder pair are rather stout. The front wings have two parallel black lines, a 



little oblique; and the distance between them as great as half the width of the 



wing. The single female brumata differs in the slenderer body, the narrower 



head, tlu' sliorter narrower wings, tlie two parallel bands on the anterior pair 



lieiug r(^presented by a broad black patch; the wings only reach as far as the 



middle ol'tlie abdomen. The legs are slenderer, particularly the hinder pair, 



which are dark-ringed, with a paler lint; but this specimen seems fresher 



than the boreata, in which the color of the legs bears the marks of being faded. 



From the female of Anisopteryx, it differs in the broader, less full, l)ulg- 



ing front of the head, the quite well-developed wings, and the stouter hind 



k-gs. 



