260 IfOCTUID^. 



extremity. Fore wing bright purplish red-brown irrorated with 

 white ; subbasal line obsolete ; antemedial line very indistinct, 

 oblique ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform white, the 

 centre and \ipper part suffused with yellow, two fine rufous streaks 

 crossing it in discal fold, the area round it rather darker ; traces of 

 an oblique medial line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 rather indistinct, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa and 

 slightly incurved below vein 4; subterminal lino only defined by 

 the area beyond it being rather darker, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle; ciHa fuscous brown slightly irrorated 

 with white. Hind wing dull yellowish brown ; the cilia redder, 

 whitish at tips ; the underside pale, tinged with purplish red and 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



llah. U.S.A., Illinois, Chicago, 1 c? , Nebraska. Exp. 34 

 miUim. 



1496. Chabxiata signata. 



Nephelodes signata, Wlk. Can. Nat. & Geol. v. p. 253 (1860) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 172. 

 Hydrixcia semia'perta, Morr. Can. Ent. vi. p. 105 (1874). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown, the hairs tipped with greyish ; 

 abdomen red-brown, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing red-brown, 



Fig. 52. — Chabuata signata, cJ. \. 



the veins with slight dark streaks ; the subbasal line represented 

 by dark marks on costa and in cell ; a waved antemedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the former small, round, 

 the latter narrow, often with its lower part white and with white 

 spots round its upper part ; a diffused medial line oblique from 

 costa to lower angle of cell where it is angled ; postmedial line 

 minutely waved, strongly bent outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 4, angled outw^ards on vein 1 ; subterminal line diffused, 

 ochreous, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area 

 beyond it darker, sometimes with some white scales on the veins ; 

 a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing dark reddish brown, the 

 cilia redder ; the underside ochreous irrorated with brown, the 

 costal aud terminal areas tinged with reddish, a black discoidal 

 point and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. Cajstada.; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, Middle and Central 

 States, Massachusetts, Boston, 2 J, New York, Evans Centre, 1 J, 

 Illinois, New Mexico. Exjo. 34 millim. 



