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Genus APHARETRA. „ 



Type. 



Apharetra, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 3G8 (1901), non 



deser dentata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with rough hair ; frous smooth ; eyes large, round, overhung by long cilia ; 

 antenna3 of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed witli rough scales and 

 hair, the prothorax with spreading crest ; mid and hind tibice spined towards 

 extremities ; abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing rather narrow, the margins 

 subparallel, the apes rounded ; 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, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



Differs from Isochhra m the thorax being clothed with scales and 

 hair. 



A. Fore wing grey-brown ; hind wing yellowish, the terminal area 



brown dentata. 



B. Fore wing black mixed with grey ; hind wing fuscous pyrcUls, 



1019 a. Apharetra dentata. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 21.) 



Apatela dentata, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 222 (1875) ; Smith, Oat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 37. 



c? . Head and thorax grey-brown ; tarsi banded with blackish ; 

 abdomen pale ochreous brown. Pore wing grey, suffused and 

 iiTorated with brown, especially beyond the reniform and on 

 medial part of terminal area ; the subbasal line represented by 

 a black striga from costa; the antemedial line oblique from costa 

 to median nervure, then irregularly waved ; orbicular and reniform 

 greyish, the former very ill defined, the latter rather large and 

 defined by black ; postmedial line minutely dentate, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; some 

 pale points on costa towards apex ; subterminal line very indistinct 

 and somewhat dentate, defined by a brown shade on its inner side 

 at costa and obscured by the brown patch on medial part of 

 terminal area ; a terminal series of small blackish lunules ; cilia 

 chequered fuscous and grey. Hind wiug yellowish, the terminal 

 area suffused with brown; the cilia whitish, with a brown line 

 through them ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown. 



Ilab. Caxad.a. ; U.S.A., Eastern and Northern States, 1 c5' type, 

 Adirondack Mts. Ex2i. 34 millim. 



*1019 A. Apharetra pyralis. (Plate LXXVIEI. fig. 22.) 



Acronycta pynUis, Smith, Ent. News Philad. vii. p. 2G (189G) ; Dyar, Cat. 

 N. Am. Lap. p. 105. 



$ . Head and thorax black mixed with grey ; tarsi ringed with 

 grey ; abdomen fuscous brown irrorated with grey. Pore wing 



