358 NOCTUTD^. 



then incurved, some pale points on costa beyond it ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, pale, augled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle; traces of a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing 

 yellowish white, the veins and terminal area tinged with rufous ; 

 the underside with the costal and terminal area tinged with rufous. 

 Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1 J cotype ; U.S.A., Colo- 

 rado (CocJcerell), 1 J . Exj). 40 millim, 



1658. Nephelodes pectinata. 



NephelocJes pectinaiiis. Smith, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 221 (1000) ; Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 161. 



J . Head and thorax chocolate-brown with a purplish tinge ; 

 fore tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore 

 wing pale purplish rufous slightly irrorated with fuscous, the 

 veins streaked with fuscous ; the medial area deep chocolate from 

 subcostal nervure to vein 1 ; traces of a waved subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; an oblique waved antemedial line ; orbi- 

 cular and reniform moderate, pale, the former somewhat elliptical ; 

 postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 



Fig. 93. — Nephelodes pecfinaia, c?. i-. 



strongly incurved, some pale points on costa beyond it ; subter- 

 minal line formed of obscure sagittate rufous marks, somewhat 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine dark 

 terminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown with a reddish or purplish 

 tinge; the cilia ochreous white ; the underside pale ochreous thickly 

 irrorated with rufous and the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; 

 a dark discoidal spot. 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing more tinged with purple, the 

 last with the medial area concolorous. 



Hab. Canada, Vancouver I. (J. J. Walker, Mathcw, Cronq^ton), 

 4 c? , 1 $ . ^>J'. 42-50 millim. 



Skct. III. {Nephelodes). Antennsu of male bipectinate, with short branches 

 with long bristle at extremity. 



1659. Nephelodes emmedonia. 



Noctna emmedonia. Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 92, pi. 247, D (1779). 

 Ncphelode-s minians, Guen. Noct. i. p. 130 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 172. 

 Nephelodes violans, Guen. Noct. i. p. 130(1852). 

 Gruphiphora expansa, Wlk. x. 390 (1856). 



