52 NOCTUID^. 



64. Dasypoudsea meadi. (Plate LY. fig. 25.) 



Hdiothi.^ mcadi, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 121, pi. 3. f. 5 (1873)- 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. '2SG. 



Head and thorax clothed with pale greenish-yellow and white 

 hair; pectus, legs, and abdomen white. .Fore wing pale yellow- 

 green, tinged with black in places ; a silvery-white mark at base 

 conjoined at median nerviire to the curved subbasal white line 

 defined on outer side by some black scales ; the antcmedial line 

 curved and defined by some black scales, expanding into a triangular 

 white mark on costal area ; the medial area with whitish patches 

 on costal area and in and below cell, defining the green orbicular 

 and reniform stigmata ; the postmedial line silvery white, defined 

 by black scales on outer side, acutely angled outwards beyond 

 lower angle of cell and incurved above and below that point ; the 

 terminal area with white patches at apex and from vein 4 to 

 tornus, defining a dentate subterrainal line ; cilia chequered white 

 and green. Hind wing white : the basal and costal areas suffused 

 with black confiuent with the large black discoidal lunule ; the 

 terminal area black, its iinier edge rather irregular and indented 

 towards tornus and with white subterrainal patch between veins 

 2 and 4. Underside white ; fore wing with patch below the cell, 

 orbicular, reniform, and postmedial band black ; hind wing with 

 discoidal lunule and postmedial band towards tornus black. 



Hah. U.S.A., Oregon, 1 ^ , Montana, Colorado, 1 2 . Exp. 

 28 millim. 



Genus CHARICLEA. 



Type. 



Charidca, Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 76 (18l'5) cMiMni. 



Pcriphana, Hiibn. Verz. p. 247 ( 1827) ddpMni. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely porrect to just beyond froiis and 

 fringed with hair below; froos with rounded prominence with corneous plate 

 below it; eyes large, rounded; antenna^ of male minutely ciliated ; head and 

 thorax clothed with hair only, the latter rather quadrately, and with crests 

 on pro- and metathorax ; tibia tliickly fringed with hair, the fore tibia; short 

 and broad, witli long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer, the 

 mid and hind tibia; very sliglitly spined ; abdomen dorsally clothed with rou"-h 

 hair at base and with crest on 1st segment. Fore wing with the apex 

 moderately produced ; veins 3 and 5 from close to 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, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; (>, 7 from upper angle. 



65. Chariclea delphini. 



:^oaua delphinli, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 518 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. iv 

 pi. 175. ff. 1-4; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. pi. 42. f. 204 & pi 137 

 f. 622: Dup. Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. 110. f. 1; Steph. III. Brit 

 Ent., Ilaust. iii. p. 92 ; Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 76; Stand. Cat. Len ml 

 p. 223. '^ ■ 



Head and thorax ochreous white, the palpi, frons, and metathora.v 

 tinged with rufous, the tegulse and patagia with olive ; legs tino-od 



