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snrTriD.K. 



uliilifh irroratotl with brown, :i dark tcrniiiial line; the untk-rside 

 with (lark (lis<oi(hil luiiuh' and indistinct curved postrnedial line. 



Hull, (.'anai^a, N uncouvor 1. (J. ./. \\\dki-r), 1 $ type Aj7>. 

 40 millim. 



2:^61. Epidemas cinerea. 



K/iidemnn cinerra, Smith, Traim. Am. Knf. Soc. xxi. p. 41, jil. iv. (T. 10, I'J 

 (IrilM) ; J)ynr, Ci.t. Lrp. X. Am. j.. 111). 



TIcnd nnd tliorax groy mi.xcd with Mack ; tepila; with hlackish 

 medial line and Idack tips; j)ata<,'ia edged 'with black; m<.-la- 

 tlioracic crest hlaok at tijis ; tarsi blackish ringed with white; 



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Fig. 64. — Epidemas chtcrea, cf. j. 



abdomen browni.sh grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey 

 thickly irrorated with black and tinged with browu in parts ; a 

 sinuous black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line represented 

 by a slight striga from costa ; antemcdial line double, filled in with 

 wliitish, tlie inner line indistinct, angled inwards on subcostal 

 nervurc and vein 1 and strongly exeurved in submedian interspace ; 

 claviform_ defined by black, acute at extremity and extending to 

 ])ostmedial line ; orbicular and rcnilorm with whitish annuli defined 

 by black, the former oblique elliptical, sometimes open above and 

 below, the latter indistinctly defined on outer side; postmedial line 

 double, filled in with white, bent outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 4; subterminal line defined bj" the area beyond it being 

 slightly darker, dentate on veins 7, 0, 4, 3, then forming a white 

 line defined on each side by b!ack ; cilia chequered grey and black 

 with a fine line through them. Hind wing white irrorated with 

 brown: a fine dark terminal line; the underside with discoidal 

 spot and curved i)ostmedial line. 



llah. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman {Piper), 1 $, Colorado, 

 Glenwood Springs (Barnes), 1 cJ • A>/i.. rf 3G, $ 4U millim. 



2302. Dpidemas obscura. (Plate CI. fig. 27.) 



Epidemas ob.vurua, Smilli, J. N.Y. Eiit. Soc. li. j). 2 (1*.K)3). 



J. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; abdomen 

 pale suffused with reddish brown. Fore wing pale, almost uni- 

 formly suffused with reddish brown and with slight dark irroration; 

 a curved black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line absent ; 

 antemcdial line very indistinct, excurved from costa to submedian 

 fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, indistinctly 



