482 NOCTCIDJF. 



b^. Fore tibiae of male iLiickly liiCted with liair ; hind tibia; moderately 

 tutted. 



1833. Cirphis multilinea. (riate XCI. fig. 18.) 



Leiicania multilinea, Wlk. ix. 97 (1856) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 187. 

 Leucmiiu solita, Wlk. ix. 99 (1856) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. 



p. 262. 

 Heliophila lapidaria, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 419. 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; tcgulac with three dark 

 lines ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreons ; the veins 

 white, clearh- defined by red- brown streaks ; the interspaces with 

 fine red-brown streaks ; the median nervure with a red-brown 

 fascia below it ; the costal and inner areas slightly irrorated with 

 black ; a black point below origin of vein 2 and another in lower 

 angle of cell ; postmedial black points on veins 5 and 2 ; an oblique 

 pale shade from apex; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing white, the veins and tcrmen tinged with fuscous brown ; 

 a terminal series of black points ; the underside with the costal 

 area irroi'ated with dark brown. 



Ab. 1. Icqndaria. Hind wing with the veins and termen not 

 tinged with brown. 



JJah. Canada, Orilla (i?«s7i), 1 $ type; TJ.S.A., Massachusetts, 

 Butfalo, \ (S ,1 2 J type laindaria, I^ew York : Costa Eica {Under- 

 wood), 1 (S , Guatemala (Champion), 1 J ; Panama, Bugaba 

 (Chanqnon), 1 ^ , Godman-8alvin Coll., La Chorrera {Dolhy-Tylcr), 



1 2 ; Grenada {U. H. Smith), 1 ^ ; Barbados (Frampton), 1 c? , 



2 2 ; Hab, iGN., 1 J type soUta ; Paraguay, Sapucay (Foster), 

 1 2 ■ ^^vp. 38 millim. 



c'. Fore and hind tibite of male moderately tufted 

 with hair, 

 a'-. JMid tibia of male Trith the outer spur curved 

 and llattened, pointed at extremity. 



a'. Hind wing wliolly suft\iscd with fuscous commoides. 



b^. Hind wing white, the lenuen tinged with 



fuscous phragmitidicola. 



1834. Cirphis commoides. (Plate XCI. fig. 19.) 



Leucania commoides, Guen. Noct. i. p. 86 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 188. 



Head and thorax dull reddish brown mixed with fuscous ; tegulse 

 with two dark lines ; patagia with a few black scales near upper 

 edge; abdomen rufous in male, ochreous in female. Fore wing 

 ochreous suffused with pale rufous, the costal and inner areas 

 slightly irrorated with black ; the veins whitish slightly defined by 

 brown strealis ; the interspaces with brown streaks; tlie median 

 nervure more prominently white, defined by black on each side ; a 

 black streak from inner margin near base to beyond middle ; the 



