L*12 KocxriuiE. 



Ab. 2, stcUata. Fore wing wilh the two spots not ringed with 

 pink, the postmedial series of white points more prominent ; hind 

 wing almost wholly sutt'uscd witli pink. 



]]<th. V.i^.A. {lJiiiiUc<fai/),l 5 type, Massachusetts (G^ro/g), 2 cf, 

 6 $, Xew York, llhodel., 1 d/^outh to Florida and West to 

 Mississippi States. E.i2). 24—30 millim. 



Genus STIRIA. 



Type. 



SHria, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 73 (1874) rtigifrons. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to just bej-ond 

 the frons, tbe 2iid joint nioderati-ly Iringed with hair below, tlie ord short; 

 frons with lar^e heart-shaped corneous prominence with raised edges, its 

 lower edge produced to a point, a corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; 

 anteniui; of male laminate and minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed with rough 

 scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests, the patagia curled 

 upwards at extremity ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair, the lure tibiiu with 

 large curved claw on inner side; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with 

 the apex produced aTid acute, the ternien oblique below vein 4 and crenulate, 

 the tornus with slight scale-tooth ; veins 3 and 5 from neiir angle of cell ; 6 

 from upper anjrle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tlieareole ; 11 frotu 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 uear base only. 



A. Fore wing with grey-brown patch on medial inner area. 



a. Fore wing j^ellow. 



a}. Fore wing with the patch on medial area large and 



irregularly quadrate rugifrons. 



b^. Fore wing with tlie patch on medial area much 



smaller and conical sulphurea. 



b. Fore wing grey-white consuela. 



B. Fore wing without grey-brown patch on medial inner 



area. 



a. Fore wing with broad pale medial band hiitsoni. 



b. Fore wing without pale medial band fuUginosa. 



4619. Stiria rugifrons. 



Stiria rurjifrons, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 73 (1874) ; Drnce, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Ilet. ii. p. 484, pi. 1)4. f. 9 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 262. 



Palpi and frons whitish mixed with brown, vertex of liead pale 

 yellow, antennjo brownish ; thorax brown mixed with white and 

 black, the tegulaj pale yellow towards base ; pectus and legs 

 whitish mixed with brown ; abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing 

 greenish yellow faintly irroralcd with brown ; a slight brown sub- 

 basal line from costa to vein 1 and a diffused bro^yn patch above 

 inner margin ; a brown point in cell before the antemcdial line, ^ 

 which is indistinct, oblique and sinuous to submedian fold, then I 

 inwardly oblicjue and aiigled inwards on vein 1 ; mcciial area with ! 

 large red-brown patch from submedian fold to inner margin ; j 

 orbicular hardly defined except by brown striae on inner and outer j 



