NONAGRIA. DOERRIESA. 323 



4751. Wonagria enervata. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 17.) 



Nonagria enervata, Guen. Noct. i. p. 105 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 183. 

 Nonagria fodiens, Guen. Noct. i. p. 105 (1852). 



S . Head and thorax reddish brown suffused with grey ; palpi 

 and legs fuscous brown ; abdomen grey tinged with red. Fore 

 wing reddish brown suffused with grey ; a diffused blackish streak 

 below base of cell ; antemedial line represented by faint black 

 points on the veins, the reniform by a blackish mark at lower angle 

 of cell, the postmedial liue by a series of faint black points on the 

 veins, oblique below vein 4 ; a terminal series of slight black 

 points. Hind wing whitish tinged with red-brown. 



2 ■ Fore wing paler reddish, a somewhat browner fascia along 

 median nervure, the veins of terminal half with slight dark streaks ; 

 the antemedial line more distinct, excurved in interspaces and 

 angled inwards on the veins ; reniform with black spots in upper 

 and lower parts ; postmedial series of points double and distinct, 

 strongly bent inwards to costa; terminal series of points distinct; 

 hind wing whiter with indistinct diffused curved postmedial line ; 

 the underside with small discoidal spots. 



Hub. U.S.A., Florida (Doubledai/), 3 6 , 2 $ type. Exp. 28-34 

 millim. 



Genus DOERRIESA. 



Type. 



Bagonotia, Staud. Iris,xii. p. 372 (1809), nee Grote, Lep. 188S striata. 



Doerriesa, Staud. Iris.xii. p. 373 (18'JD) striata. 



Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to above 

 vertex of head and fringed with scales in front and behind at extremity, the 

 3rd moderate; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antennae of female ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; build slender ; 

 tibire slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base but 

 without crests. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute, the termen 

 nearly straight 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. Hind wing with veins 3, -t from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 to middle. 



4752. Doerriesa striata. 



Eagonotia striata, Staud. Iris.xii. p. 372, pi. 6. f. 15 (1899); id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 188. 



5 . Head white ; palpi purplish red ; thorax white suffused with 

 purplish red ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing purplish red ; 

 the costal edge white ; the cell streaked with ochreous white 

 leaving a forked red streak in discal fold ; the submedian inter- 

 space with ochreous white fascia, the fold defined by fine double 



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