680 NOCTTTIDJ5. 



*6026. GraBperia megocula. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 1 0.) 



Tornacontia megocula, Smitb, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 58 (1900) ; 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 213. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen white. Fore wing almost uni- 

 form steel-grey, the basal area irrorated with wbite ; faint traces 

 of an antemedial line ; orbicular a rather elongate black point ; 

 reniform with wbite annulus and black-irrorated centre, large, 

 round, prominent; a whitish streak in cell from orbicular to reniform 

 and thence to termen ; subterminal line wbite, slightly irregular, a 

 white patch on costa before it ; the veins of terminal area streaked 

 with white. Hind wing white, the termen tinged with fuscous. 

 Frontal plate narrow at extremity. , 



Bab. U.S.A., S. California. Exp. 30 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. 



B. (Grceperia). Frons with the plate below it excised in front. 



a. Fore wing dark brown with yellow costal fascia costalis. 



b. Fore wing of male orange suffused with rufous, of female 



ochreous white irrorated with rufous indubitans. 



6027. Grseperia costalis. 



Acontia costalis, Wlk. xii. 787 (1857) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. 



p. 308, pi. 28. f. 23. 

 Heilodora magnifica, Ncuni. Can. Ent. xxiii. p. 125 (1891); Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 273. 



2 . Head, tegulae, and patagia white tinged with fulvous yellow ; 

 palpi at tips and antennas brown ; dorsum of tborax dark red- 

 brown ; pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibiae and tarsi 

 with some brown mixed ; abdomen ochreous white dorsally tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing dark chocolate-brown with a slight greyish 



Fig. 1 94. — Graperia costalis, rf . ± . 



tinge the costal area white suffused with fulvous yellow from inner 

 margin near base to just before apex, its lower edge very slightly 

 angled at end of cell ; traces of an incurved postmedial line from 

 vein 4 to inner margin ; cilia greyish at tips. Hind wing white, 

 the veins and costal area with an ochreous tinge, the terminal area 



