CIEPHIS. 



481 



1832. CirpMs pseudargyria. 



Lcucania 2'>^i^udargiiria, Guen. 2Toct. i. p. 74 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 189. 

 Heliojjhila callida, Grote, New Check-List, p. 30 (1882). 



S . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with purplish red and with 

 slight dark irroration ; palpi blackish at sides ; fore legs dark ; 



Fig. 147. — Cirphis x>scudargyria, (^ . 



abdomen rufous, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing greyish 

 ochreous, irrorated with purplish red and suffused with the same 

 colour in and beyond cell and on terminal area below apex; the 

 antemedial line dark, indistinct, interrupted, waved ; orbicular and 

 reniform ochreous white with some red scales at centre, the former 

 irreo-ularly rounded, the latter narrow and slightly angled inwards 

 on median nervure ; postmedial line dentate and produced to dark 

 points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then somewhat incurved ; a curved purplish-red shade below 

 apex; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; 

 the cilia ochreous, whitish at tips ; the underside ochreous, the 

 costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1- Much greyer and without the red tinge. 



Hah. Canada, 1 S ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Burnly, 1 c5" , 1 $ , 

 New York, Evans Centre, 1 J type, 3 5 , New Jersey, Kansas 

 {Snow), 2 § , Texas, Colorado. Exp. 34-40 millim. 



The single grey male from Canada is without the tufts on fore 

 and mid tibiae ; whether this is natural or due to condition of 

 specimen, I leave to be decided by further material. 



Larva. Like pJiragmitidicoIa but rather paler, the substigmatal 

 line broad, M'hitish, reddish filled. Dorsal line narrow, pale, 

 brown-edged ; subdorsal line distinct, broadly brown-edged above. 

 Brown lateral band obscurely divided by a central line. Leg-plates 

 brown. — H. G. D. 



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