ciRrais. 



481 



1832. CirpMs pseudargyria. 



Lencania fscuclargijria, Guen. Noct. i. p. 74 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 189. 

 Heliophila callida, Grote, New Check-List, p. 30 (1882). 



S . Head aud thorax ochreous tinged with purplish red and with 

 slight dark irroration ; palpi blackish at sides ; fore legs dark ; 



Fig. 147. — Cirphis iKCudargyria, ^. 



abdomen rufous, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing greyish 

 ochreous, irrorated with purplish red and suffused with the same 

 colour in and beyond cell and on terminal area below apex ; the 

 antemedial line dark, indistinct, interrupted, waved ; orbicular and 

 reniform ochreous white with some red scales at centre, the former 

 irregularly rounded, the latter narrow and slightly angled inwards 

 on median nervure ; postmedial line dentate and produced to dark 

 points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then somewhat incurved ; a curved purplish-red shade below 

 apex; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; 

 Ihe cilia ochreous, whitish at tips ; the underside ochreous, the 

 costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. Much greyer and witliout the red tinge. 



JIah. Canada, 1 S ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Eurnly, 1 j , 1 J, 

 New York, Evans Centre, 1 ^ type, 3 $ , New Jersey, Kansas 

 (Snow), 2 $ , Texas, Colorado. Ktp. 34-46 millim. 



The single grey male from Canada is without the tufts on fore 

 and mid tibiae; whether this is natural or due to condition of 

 specimen, I leave to be decided by further material. 



Larva. Like ph-ar/mitidicola but rather paler, the substigmatal 

 line broad, whitish, reddish filled. Dorsal line narrow, pale, 

 brown-edged ; subdorsal line distinct, broadly brown-cdgod above. 

 Brown lateral baud obscurely divided by a central lino. Leg-plates 

 brown. — H. G. D. 



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