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ochreous wlilte faintly tinged with rufous ; an indistinct slightly 

 sinuous hrown postniedi;il line from below costa to above tornus ; a 

 brown subterminal shade ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia with 

 brown line near tips except towards tomus ; the underside clothed 

 with reddish ochreoixs hair to beyond middle. 



2 • Rather l^rowner. Fore wing without the black spot above 

 inner margin before the antemedial line ; hind wing on underside 

 ochreous white slightly irrorated with fuscous. 



Ab. 1. c? . Darker. — Grand Cayman. 



Hab. U.S.A., G-eorgia, 2 6 , Florida (Douhledai/), 2 J , 1 2 

 type perlafa ; Bermuda, Challenger Coll., 1 2; Grand Caymax, 

 Georgetown {Savage- E)iglish), 1 J. Exp. 54-58 millim. 



7853. Mocis texana. (Plate CCXXTII. fig. 19.) 



Bemigia fexann, Movr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 219 (187-1); Sn-.itli, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. o()4. 

 Bemigia hexastylus, Harv. Bull. LufT. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 282 (1875). 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with pale red-broAvn ; tegulse 

 tipped with white ; a curved white line aci'oss patagia and prothorax ; 

 pectus and legs ochreous, the pectus tinged with red-brown in 

 front, the tibiae and tarsus suffused \dth brown ; abdomen pale 

 oclireous faintly tinged with red-brown. Fore wing grey-white 

 irrorated with dark brown, the costa tinged with red-brown ; sub- 

 basal line red-brown, excurved below costa and ending at sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line red-brown defined on inner side 

 by white, erect and slightly sinuous ; orbicular a minute spot 

 defined by brov,"n ; reniform defined by brown and wHth brown line 

 in centre, large ; an indistinct sinuous brown medial line, excurved 

 to the reniform ; postmedial line red-brown defined on outer side b}' 

 ochreous, excurved below costa, then slightly incurved to inner 

 margin, some reddish brown suffusion beyond it, especially towards 

 costa ; traces of a pale Avaved subterminal line with a series of 

 black points on its outer edge ; a fine waved dark terminal line ; 

 cilia red-brown at tips, except towards tornus. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with red-brown and slightly irrorated with dark brown ; an 

 indistinct rather diffused brown line from costa beyond middle 

 to above tornus, slightly incurved below diseal fold ; a faint brown 

 subterminal .shade ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia with brown 

 line near tips ; the underside with the basal half clothed with 

 reddish-ochreous hairs. 



Hah. Caxada; U.S.A., Texas, 3 S type licrasii/lus. Exp. 

 54-5 J millim. 



7854. Mocis disseverans. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 20.) 

 Bemiqia disseverans, 'SSlk. xiv. 1495 (1858); Sinitli, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. :3(>4. 



Bemigia persiib/i/is, Wlk. xiv. 1497 (1858). 



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