480 



NOCTUID.E. 



purplish pink ; faint traces of a postraedial series of black points 

 on the veins ; cilia rufous, with a fine pale line at base. Hind 

 •wing ochreous, suffused with reddish fuscous especiall)' towards 

 termen ; the cilia rufous ; the underside pale suffused with purple- 

 pink, a dark discoidal spot and postmedial line diffused outwardly 

 to termen except at apex. 



Hah. Tasmania (not U.S.A.), 1 S type. Exp. 4G millim. 



Sect. II. Antenna of male ciliated. 



A. Palpi of male with spreading tuft of hair from npperside of 2nd joint. 



*1831. Cirphis pilipalpis. 



HcUoj)liila. pilipalpis, Grote, Proc. Bost. See. N. H. xviii. p. 415 (1875); 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 189. 



2 . Head and thorax pale flesh-coloiir irrorated with black 

 scales, the tegulae yellowish ; abdonaen whitish, the ventral surface 



Fi^. HG. — CirjjJiii j.ilipalpis, (^ . \. 



irrorated with a few black scales. Fore wing pale flesh-colour, 

 rather deeper in discal fold towards postmedial line and rather 

 strongly irrorated with black ; the costal edge white ; antemedial 

 line represented by two dark points on inner area ; a pale discoidal 

 bar slightly angled inwards on vein 1 and with black point in lower 

 angle of cell and diffused fuscous patch beyond it ; postmedial line 

 fuscous, highly crenulate, bent outwards below costa, then obliquely 

 curved ; a terminal series of points. Hind wing yellowish white, 

 the terminal half suffused with fuscous ; the cilia white ; underside 

 white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, some 

 black points on termen. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida, in Coll. Schaus, Appalachicola. E.rp. 

 46 millim. 



B. Palpi of male normal. 



a. Mid tibire of male with thick fringes of hair on both sides ; abdomen 

 thickly clothed with woolly hair, the anal tuft very large. 

 (d. Fore tibiae of male and first two joints of tarsi with very thick 

 fringes of long hair ; the hind tibitc with thick fringes of hair on 

 both sides. 



