190 B. NKUMOEGEN AND H. G. DYAR. 



C ciiierea Walker. 



1865.— Walker, Cat, Brit. Mus. Pt. xxxii, p. 407. 

 var. cincreoifles Dyar. 



1890.— Dyar, Can. Ent. vol. xxii. p. 253. 

 var. placida Dyar. 



1892. — Dyar, Psyche vol. vi, p. 291. 

 var. uivcst Neiinioegeu. 



1891. — Neunioegeu, Can. Ent. vol. xxiii, p. 124. Heterocampa. 

 1893. — Dyar, Ent. News vol. iv, p. 35. Cerura. 



paradoxa Behr. 

 1885.— Behr., Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci. vol. i, p. 64 (no desc). 

 1892.— Dyar, Psyche vol. vi, p. 291. 



meridionalis Dyar. 

 1892.— Dyar, Psyche vol. vi, p. 291. 

 1893.— Dyar, Ent. News vol. iv, p. 35. 

 Dark cinereous to white, the broad, doubly concave t. a. band and subapical 

 t. p. band dark, or in the pale forms pale gray, or even absent or represented by 

 scattered black scales. Both bands edged with orange scales; a median shade 

 line and venular row of dots preceding the t. p. band. A curved row of dots on 

 the veins before t. a. band, and one on median vein (cubitus) at base. Terminal 

 dots variable in size. Expanse 37 — 45 mm. 



Hab. — North America, the dark forms in the Atlantic States, the 

 pale form in California, and the white in the Rocky Mountain region. 



Genus Ulelaloplia Hiibner. 

 1810.— Hiibner, Tent. p. 1. 



Ic.hthyurn Hiibner. 

 1822?— Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sebmett. p. 162. 



Clostera Stephens. 

 1828.— Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent., Haust vol. ii. p. 12. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Lines on primaries not anastamosing, free. 



Size large, with a distinct, large, brown, apical shade albosigma. 



Size smaller, apical region not distinctly discolored. 



Wing uniform in tint alethe. 



Wing shaded with darker blotches. 



Pale, the blotches contrasting brucei. 



Dark, more uniformly obscured niiiltiioina. 



Lines anastamosing, the second joining the third. 

 Lines uneven, the basal toothed. 



Subapical patch pale, yellowish, the s. t. dots preceded by streaks. 



strigosa. 

 Patch yellowish to rusty brown, without streaks. 



Size moderate; thoracic mark present apicalis. 



Larger; no thoracic mark iiioriiafa. 



Lines nearly even, the basal one dislocated, but not toothed. 



Fourth line white on costa iiicliisa. 



Fourth line not distinctly white .jocosa. 



