358 NOCTDIDJS. 



then incurved, some pale points on costa beyond it ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle; traces of a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing 

 yellowish white, the veins and terminal area tinged with rufous ; 

 the underside with the costal and terminal area tinged with rufous. 

 Ilah. Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1 S cotype ; U.S.A., Colo- 

 rado (Cocherell), 1 J. Ed]p. 40 millim. 



1658. Nephelodes pectinata. 



Ncphdodes pectinattis. Smith, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 221 (19U0) ; Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 161. 



J . Head and thorax chocolate-brown with a purplish tinge ; 

 fore tarsi fuscous with pale rings; abdomen i)ale rufous. Fore 

 wing pale purplish rufous slightly irrorated with fuscous, the 

 veins streaked with fuscous ; the medial area deep chocolate from 

 subcostal nervure to vein 1 ; traces of a waved subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; an oblique waved antemedial line ; orbi- 

 cular and reniform moderate, pale, the former somewhat elliptical ; 

 postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 



Fig. 93. — Nephelodes pectinata, c? . \. 



strongly incurved, some pale points on costa beyond it ; subter- 

 minal line formed of obscure sagittate rufous marks, somewhat 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine dark 

 terminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown with a reddish or purplish 

 tinge; the cilia ochrcous white; the underside paleochreous thickly 

 irrorated with rufous and the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; 

 a dark discoidal spot. 



5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing more tinged with purple, the 

 last with the medial area concolorous. 



Hah. Canada, Vancouver I. {J. J. Walker, Matliew, Crompton), 

 4 cJ , 1 $ • Exp. 42-50 millim. 



Sect. III. {Nephelodes). Antennai of male bipectinate, with short branches 

 with long bristle at extremity. 



1659. Nephelodes emmedonia. 



Noctaa emmedonia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 1)2, pi. 247, D (1779). 

 Nephelodes minians, Gueii. Noct. i. p. 130 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 172. 

 Nephelodes violans, Gucn. Noet. i. p. 130 (1852). 

 Gruphiphora expansa, Wlk. x. 399(1856). 



