376 NOCTUID^E, 



8193. Charadra dispulsa. (Pkto CCXXXIY. fig. IG.) 



Charadra dispulsa, Moi-r. Proc. Bost, Soc. N. II. xvii. p. 213 (1874); 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Ain. p. 33. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly irrorated with 

 hlack ; antennsc red-brown, the shaft white above towards base ; 

 ])al])i black except at tips ; tegulaj with black medial band ; patagia 

 with black bars near tips ; thorax with four pairs of veiy slight 

 Idackish spots ; pectus blackish in front ; tibiie and tarsi banded 

 black and white ; abdomen with the crests blackish at base. Fore 

 wing white slightly irronited with bkek, a jmle yellow tinge in 

 submedian fold, on inner margin, and on tenuinal area ; subbasal 

 black striai from costa and cell ; a small black sjioton inner margin 

 before the antemedial black line, which is angled outwards below 

 costa, then erect and very slightly sinuous ; orbicular and reniform 

 pale yellow, the fonner defined by black and with some brown 

 scales in centre, the latter defined by black on inner side and its 

 centre by brown on inner side ; a shght sinuous blackish medial 

 shade; postmedial line black, bent outwards below costa, strongly 

 incm'ved and slightly dentate below vein 4, again incurved below 

 vein 2, then oblique and very slightly angled at vein 1, some black 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line slight, blackish, oblique 

 to vein 6, then bent inwards, excurved at veins 4, 3, and Avith 

 minute black spot at submeth'an fold ; a fine black terminal line 

 inteiTupted at the veins ; ciha with a blackish line through them. 

 Hind wing white, the veins, costal and terminal areas tinged with 

 brown, the last narrowing to tornus ; cilia chequered broAvn and 

 white at base ; the underside with the costal area and the terminal 

 area to vein 3 slightly irrorated Avith brown, a curved slightly 

 waved subteniiinal line and black terminal line from costa to 

 submedian fold. 



§ . Fore wing with hardly auA' yelloAv. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 1 d , 1 Y. Exp. 44 milllm. 



Genus MOMA. 



Type. 



Moma, HUbn. Yerz. p. 203 (1818) ludifica. 



Trichosca, Grotc, Bull. Buff. 8oc. Kat. Sci. ii. p. 213 (1874) ludijica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upfunied, the 2nd joint hardlj 

 reaching to middle of froiis and rather broadlv fringed with hair in front, the 

 3rd short; frons suioolh, with tuft of hair; ejes hirge, roiuid ; antennte of 

 male almost simple; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales and without 

 distinct crests; tibia; moderately fringed with bair ; abdomen with dorsal 

 scries of hairy crests and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with tlie apex 

 rounded, the tormen evenly curved and not crenulale ; veins 3 and Ti from near 

 angle of cell ; from upper angle; from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

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

 Teins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; C, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Abdomen with dorsal series of distinct black spots. 

 a. Fore wing silvery white without ochreous tinge. 



a'. Fore wing with I ho subterminal lino not forming 



dentate black mark between veins 7 and 4 obiolescens. 



