PlIURYS. DOEYODES. 113 



sti'ong oblltjue slightly sinuous chocolate-brown line from apex to 

 inner margin beyond middle with a faint yellowisli line on its 

 inner side defined by a very slight brown line on inner half ; a 

 series of black points just before termen. Hind wing purplish 

 grey suffused with fuscous brown ; a rather darker subterminal 

 shade extending to termen on apical area, the rest of termen 

 greyer ; the underside whitish iiTorated with dark browm, the costal 

 area tinged with red-brown, a slight black discoidal lunule and 

 terminal series of small black lunules. 



Ab. 1. perplexa. Fore wing rather greyer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida, 1 S type glans; Hab. ig>'., 1 6 VP^ 

 perspicna. Exp. 38 millim. 



*7888. Phurys Carolina. 



Phurys Carolina, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxvii. p. 68 (lUOo). 



6 . Head and thorax fuscous brown suffused with violaceous 

 grey ; abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing fuscous brown suffused 

 with violaceous grey ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, diffused, 

 angled outwards on median nervure; reniform an indistinct elliptical 

 blackish spot ; postmedial line double, dark brown filled in with 

 yellow, excurved below costa towards which it is reduced to a slight 

 line faintly defined on outer side by yellow scales, joined at vein 6 

 by a double oblique dark streak filled in with yellow from apex, 

 then continued as an inwardly oblique line to inner margin ; 

 subterminal line absent ; a fine crenulate brown terminal line with 

 blackish points in the interspaces. Hind wing almost imiform 

 dark brown. Underside of both winars yellowish irrorated with 

 fuscous and with indistinct discoidal spots. 



5 . Fore wing with the markings almost obsolete. 



Hah. U.S.A., N. Carolina. Exp. 34 millim. This species is 

 vmknown to me. 



Genus DORYODES. 



Tjpp. 



Boryodcs, Gncn. Ur. k Phal. ii. p. 233 (1857) bistrialh. 



'Ihemma, Wlk. xxvii. 186(1863; »paclaria. 



Tunza, Wlk. xxvii. K'6 (1803) spadaria. 



Proboscis aborted and slender ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely 

 upturned, curved forward at extremity and moderately sealed, the 3rd 

 moderate, porrect ; froiis sniootli, willi tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; 

 antenna; of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex ; thorax clothed 

 with hair and hair-like scales, and without crests; build slender; tibiaj 

 smoothly scaled, all the tibise spined ; abdomen long, smoothly scaled and 

 without crests. Fore wing very long and narrow, the apex produced and 

 acute, the termen very oblique and not crenulate ; veins 3 and Fi from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing witli 8 to form 

 the arcole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing ; 

 veins 3, 4 from angle ; 6 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base, then approximated to it to beyond 

 mirldle. 



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