riRPiirs. 



483 



interspaces of terminal urea with slight black streaks ; traces of a 

 postraedial series of black points on the veins sometimes present ; 

 an oblique pale shade from apex : a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing brown with a reddish tinge ; cilia yellowish white, with 

 a brown line near base ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with dark brown. 



Hah. Canada, Nova Scotia, Alberta, Calgarj^ {WoUey-Dod), 1 r? , 

 1 $ ; U.S.A., New York, 4 c? , 2 $, type, Wisconsin, Illinois, 

 Florida, Minnesota, Washington, 1 $ , Colorado, New Mexico. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



1835. Cirphis pliragmitidicola. 



Lencania phraqmitidicola, Grueu. Xoct. i. p. 89 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 187. 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; palpi and sides of head dark 

 brown ; tegalae wich three dark lines ; abdomen ochreous white. 



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Fig. 148. — Cirphis phragmltidicola, c?. \. 



Fore wing brownish ochreous sparsely irrorated with black ; the 

 veins pale defined by brown streaks ; the area beyond the cell with 

 fine brown streaks in the interspaces ; the median nervure with 

 white streak more or less strongly defined below by black, some- 

 times extending beyond the cell as a short streak above vein 4 ; an 

 antemedial black point sometimes present just below median 

 nervure ; a black point in lower angle of cell ; a curved postmedial 

 series of black points on the veins ; an oblique pale shade from 

 apex ; a terminal series of black points usually present. Hind 

 wing white, the veins and tcrmen tinged with ochreous brown ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a terminal 

 series of black points on apical half. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Beverly, 2 $ , New York, 

 5 d , 2 2 , Kansas (Snow), 1 c? , 1 $ , Texas, Colorado, California, 

 San Francisco, 1 $ , New Mexico. Exp. 32-42 millim. 



Larva. Head luteous, sutures paler with a brown stripe each 

 side and mark in clypeus. Body straw-brown, finely darker 

 streaked. Dorsal line narrow, pale, dark-edged ; subdorsal 

 broader, pale, a broad straight band above it and narrow edging 

 below : lateral line narrow, pale ; markings slightly darker between 

 this and the narrow pale stigmatal line. Leg-shields brownish. — 

 H. G. D. 



