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NOOTTTID-^. 



red-brown. Tore wing; witli the bnsal area and costal area to 

 beyond middle jjiile prey irrorated sliirhllv witli brown, the medial 

 area siiH'usod with red-brown shading to ])alo brown before the 

 eubterminal line, tlie terminal area pale grey irrorated with fuscous ; 

 anlemcilial line slight, very oblique and slightly excurved, from 

 eosta near middle to vein 1 near base; orbicular and reniform 

 reddish ochreous with red-brown centres, the former small lan- 

 ceolate, the latter a narrow very oblique bar pointed at extremities 

 and with ochreous striga in centre: postinedial line very indistinct, 

 brown, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, very oblique below 



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Fig. ](J6.- 



Sphida ohliqita, ^7. \. 



vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 fuscous with slight dark marks at the veins, somewhat angled 

 inwards at discal fold and excurved at middle; a black terminal 

 line with whitish line before it; cilia pale rufous with slight 

 fuscous line near tips. 

 a fine brown terminal line 



]iind wing greyish suffused with rufous 



the underside 



grey, 



irrorated Mith 



brown, a brown discoidal spot and traces of postmedial line. 



llah. Canada, Ontario, Orilla (Bush), 2 (S , I 2 type; U.S.A., 

 1 cf,l $, south to Florida and west to the Mississippi, Massa- 

 chusetts, New York {Douhliday), 1 5> Buffalo, 1 §, Xew Jersey, 

 Ohio, 1 $ , Florida, Colorado. Exp. 44-GO millim. 



Larva. Head black, roughened. Body cylindrical, rather slender, 

 black, roughened ; spiracles on joint 12 large, directed posteriorly. 

 Food-plant : Cat-tail {Typha latifoUa). — H. G. D. 



Genus BELLURA. 



Typp. 



Beliiira, Wlk. xxxii. 465 (1865) gortyiioides. 



Arzama, Wlk. xxxii. 644 (1865) gortynoides. 



Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely porrect.. extending to just beyond 

 frons, the 2nd joint friiiged witli long hair below, the 3rd short; frons smooth, 

 with tuft of ban* ; eyes large, round ; antennse of male bijiedinate with rather 

 long branches to apex, of female with short branches ending in a bristle; 

 thorax clothed with hair only, the prolhorax without crest, the metatliorax 

 with spreading cres-t ; tibije fringed with long iiair ; abdomen with some rough 

 hair at base, the anal tuft in female very large and flocculent. Fore wing with 

 the apex rounded ; the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins #3 and 

 6 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 I'roin 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell ; the cell on undorside clothed with long 

 hair. Hind wing wiih veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; o obsolescent from 



