300 



NOCTU1D.E. 



*4713. Archanara lata. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 31.) 



Nonagria lata, Morr. Proc. Bosh Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 120 (1875) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 182. 



2 . Head arid thorax bright rufous ; antenna? ochreous white ; 

 abdomen ochreous suffused with rufous. Fore wing bright, rufous 

 slightly irrorated with brown, the costal area redder, the veins 

 streaked with brown except vein 1 ; a diffused dark mark at lower 

 angle of cell. Hind wing ochreous suffused with purplish pink 

 and slightly irrorated with brown ; the underside ochreous, the 

 costal area suffused with purplish pink and slightly irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hab. U.S.A., New Jersey, Hoboken, New York, Plattsburg 

 (Hudson), in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus CffiNOBIA. 



Type. 



Ccenobia,, Stepli. Cat. Brit. Lep. p. 121 ( 1856), non deser. ; Wlk. ix. 



118(1850) rufa 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porreet, extending about tbe length of head, 

 the 2nd joint moderately lriuged with hair below, the 3rd moderate; 

 frons with pointed triangular corneous plate at middle with flattened plate 

 below it and tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male 

 ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales and without crests; 

 build slender; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdomen elongate, without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen slightly excised below 

 apex and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with S to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

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

 discocellulars ; G, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



4714. Ccenobia rufa. 



Phytometra rufa, Haw. Lep. Brit, p. 2(i0 (1809); Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent,, 

 Haust. iii. p. 123; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 188. 



Nonagria despecfa, Treit. Eur. Schmett. (v.) ii. p. 311 (1825); Geyer, Eur. 

 Schmett,. Noet. ff. 751-2 (1833); Dup. Lep. FY., Snppl. iii. p. 355, 

 pl. 32. f. 5 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct, f. 385. 



Acosmetia lineola, Stepb. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 123 (1829). 



Head and thorax pale ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi and 

 sides of frons tinged with fuscous ; tibia? and tarsi fuscous, the 



Fig. 124. — Ccenobia rufa, rf . \. 



latter ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing 

 pale ochreous slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown 



