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NOCTTJIDJE. 



red-brown. Fore wing with the basal area and costal area to 

 beyond middle pale grey irrorated slightly with brown, the medial 

 area suffused with red-brown shading to pale brown before the 

 subterminal line, the terminal area pale grey irrorated with fuscous ; 

 antemedial line slight, very oblique and slightly excurved, from 

 costa near middle to vein 1 near base; orbicular and reniform 

 reddish ochreous with red-brown centres, the former small lan- 

 ceolate, the latter a narrow very oblique bar pointed at extremities 

 and with ochreous striga in centre ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 brown, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, very oblique below 



Fig. J 06. — Sj)hida obliqua, $ . \. 



vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 fuscous with slight dark marks at the veins, somewhat angled 

 inwards at discal fold and excurved at middle; a black terminal 

 line with whitish line before it; cilia pale rufous with slight 

 fuscous line near tips. Hind wing greyish suffused with rufous ; 

 a fine brown terminal line ; the underside grey, irrorated with 

 brown, a brown discoidal spot and traces of postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Ontario, Orilla (Bash), 2 tf , 1 2 type; U.S.A., 

 1 c?,l 2 i south to Florida and west to the Mississippi, Massa- 

 chusetts, New York {Doubltday), 1 § , Buffalo, 1 $ , New Jersey, 

 Ohio, 1 2 ! Florida, Colorado. Exp. 44-60 millim. 



Larva. Head black, roughened. Body cylindrical, rather slender, 

 black, roughened ; spiracles on joint 12 large, directed posteriorly. 

 Food-plant : Cat-tail (Tyjoha laiifolia). — H. G. D. 



Genus BELLURA. 



Typ f 



Bellura, Wlk. xxxii. 465 (1865) gortynoides. 



Arzama, Wlk. xxxii. t>44 (1865) gortynoides. 



Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to just beyond 

 frons, the 2nd joint fringed with long hair below, the 3rd short; frons smooth, 

 with tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male bi pectinate with rather 

 long branches to apex, of female with short branches ending in a bristle; 

 thorax clothed with hair only, the prolhorax without crest, the metathorax 

 with spreading crest ; tibhe fringed with long hair ; abdomen with some rough 

 hair at base, the anal tuft in female very larsre and flocculent. Fore wing with 

 the apex rounded ; the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 

 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell; the cell on underside clothed with long 

 hair. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 



