300 xocn irt.i;. 



*47i;3. Archauara laeta. (Plate CXLLII. fig. 31.) 



y'onaqria lata . Morr. IVoc. Boat. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 112) (1875); Smiili, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 182. 



2. Head and thorax bright rufous; antennte ochreous white ; 

 ahdomen ochreous suffused with rufous. Fore wing bright rufous 

 slii^btly irrorati'd with browu, the costal area redder, the vein-i 

 streaked with brown e.xcept veiu 1 ; a diffused dark mark at lower 

 angle of cell. Hind wing ochreous suffused witli purjdish pink 

 and slightly irrorated with brown ; the underside ochreous, tho 

 costal area suffused with purplish pink and sligluly irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Jersey, Hoboken, Xew York, Plattsburg 

 (lluilson), in U.S. Nat. Mus. E.vp. 44 millim. 



Genus CffiNOBIA. 



Type. 



Coenohia. Steph. C:it. Brit. Lep. p. 121 (18."i6), non descr. ; Wlk. is. 



118(18.')C)) rvh- 



Probosuis fidly developed ; palpi porrect, extending about tlie length of lieal, 

 tlie 2ii(l joint moderately Iriiiged with liair below, tlif 3i'd inodenite; 

 irons with pointed triansjuhu' i-orneous plate at niidiUe with flattened i>late 

 below it and tut't of hair above; eyes large, ronnd ; aiiteninv, of male 

 ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales and wiiliuut crests; 

 build slender ; tibite moderately fringed with liair; abdomen elongate, witiioiit 

 crests. Kore wing with the apex rounded, the termen sliglitly excised below 

 apex and not crenulate ; veins .'3 and .') n-om near angle of cell ; K from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hiud wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; .") obsoleseenc from middle of 

 discocellulars ; (>, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



4714. CcenoMa riifa. 



Fhytometra rufa. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 2m (1809); Stoph. III. Brit. Ent., 

 Haust. iii. p. 123; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 188. 



Nomtg.-ia despeela, Treit. Eur, .Schtnelt. (v.) ii. p. 311 (1825); Geyer, Eur. 

 Sciimett., Koct. fl". 751-2 (1833) ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 355, 

 pl. 32. f. 5 ; Herr.-Schaff. Ear. Schmett., Noct. f. 3(i5. 



Acosmetia lineola, Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 123 (1829). 



Head and thorax pale ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi and 

 sides of frons tinged with fuscous ; tibiae and tarsi fuscous, the 



F\g.\2L—Ccenohia.rufa,S- \- 



latter ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing 

 pale ochreous slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown 



