MELAPOBPHTEIA. DISOCNEMIS. 



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and slightlj- curved, the area bej-oud it yellow-brown ; cilia dark 

 brown mixed with ochreous. Hind wing yellow-brown ; the basal 

 half suffused with black to the curved medial line ; diffused blackish 



Pig. 9. — Mdaporphyriaimnwrtiia, (^ . \. 



postmedial and terminal bands. Underside yellow-brown ; both 

 wings with the basal area blackish, conjoined to the diffused 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Massachusetts, Newton, 1 (S Grote Coll., jS'ew 

 York, Colorado, Xew Mexico, Gullinas Canon (CocJcerell), 1 S ■ 

 Exp. 28 milhm. 



Genus DYSOCNEMIS. 



Type. 



Bysocnemis, Grote, Revised Check List, p. 34 (1890), nou descr. hdladonna. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, sliort, clothed with long hair ; 

 frons with rounded prominence; head and thorax clothed with rough hair; 

 eyes small, reuiform ; antennte of male minutely ciliated ; fore tibiiii spined at 

 sides ; raid and hind tibia; spined. Fore wing short and broad ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; .') obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or 

 shortly stalked. 



A. Fore wing with the medial area prominently whitish. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform almost obsolete 



above ^jrorMjsto. 



h. Fore wing with the orbicular and reuiform prominent belladonna. 



B. Fore wing with the medial area not prominently whitish. 



a. Hind wing with the whitish medial band not indented by 



the black discoidal spot borealis. 



h. Hind wing with the whitish medial band indented by 



the black discoidal spot orcgonica. 



23, Dysocnemis pronipta. 



Hrlio/ his proniptun, Grote, Trans. Am.Ent. Soc. iv. p. 294(1873); Smith.Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 287. 

 Meliclcptrla vcnusfa, H. Edw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 133 (1875). 



Head and thorax black-brown tinged with crimson ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen clothed with long black hair, the anal tuft whitish at 

 extremity. Fore wing black-brown suffused with crimson ; the 

 basal area bounded by the black autemedial line, which is excurved 

 below costa and to inner margin ; the medial area white, slightly 

 irrorated with fuscous or sometimes suffused with red-brown ; the 



