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2307. Bracliylomia populi. 



Chorerh populi, Streck. Lep. Ebop. & Het., Suppl. i. p. 8 (1898); Dyar, 

 Ciit. Lep. jV. Am. p. 168. 



Head and thorax gre}--white mixed with fuscous ; tegulae with 

 orange-fulvous band near base and blackish band near tips ; fore 

 tarsi banded with black; abdomen brownish grey irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing grey- white, thickly irrorated with black and 

 suffused with orange-fulvous at base of costal area and on medial 

 and postmedial areas ; subbasal line indistinct, defined by whitish 



Fig. 67. — Brcccht/lomia populi, cS . \. 



on outer side, irregular, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line defined l)y fulvous on inner side, erect, slightly waved ; orbicular 

 and reniform undefined, fulvous with some gre}' and black in centres, 

 the former elliptical, the latter narrow; traces of a diffused medial 

 line ; postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4 to inner edge of reniform ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with a dark line 

 through them. Hind wing white tinged with pale red-brown ; a 



fine brown terminal line ; cilia white ; the underside with slight 



discoidal lunule and curved diffused postmedial line. 



Ab. ]. Whiter; fore wing with the fulvous suffusion slight, a 



diffused blackish medial band ; hind wing whiter. 



Ab. 2. Thorax blackish ; fore wing with hardly a trace of fulvous 



suffusion, the basal half blackish bounded by a strong black medial 



band ; hind wing whiter. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary {Wolhii-Dod), .3 J , 2 $ ; U.S.A., 



Colorado. Exp. 34 millim. 



*2368. Brachylomia rectifascia. (Plate CI. fig. 29.) 



Bryohota rectifascia. Smith. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. sviii. p. 108(1891); 

 id. Ci.t. Noct. N. Am. p. 215. 



Head and thorax blue-grey : tegulae with broad black medial line. 

 Fore wing blue-grey ; subbasal line distinct, ])ale, obscurely double, 

 ending at the short black streak below base of cell, the base of costa 

 paler, tinged with rufous ; antemedial line erect or slightly oblique, 

 double, the outer line strong and touching the orbicular ; claviform 

 small, represented by a slight reddish tinge ; reniform large, suffused 

 with brick-red; medial line prominent, black, forming the inner 



