EOSPnOROPTEHTX. — PSEFDETA. 447 



Avliite, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, sinuous ; orbicular 

 with slight white annulus. oblique elliptical ; the stigma placed on 

 an oblique rufous fascia froni cell to the postmedial line, silvery- 

 white, iregularly V-shaped with a small spot beyond its lower 

 extremity; reniform yery faintly defined by brownish and very 

 narrow, a small black spot in its upper part and two points in 

 lower ; postmedial line doul)le, red-brown, obsolescent towards 

 costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein G, 

 incurved at discal fold and slightly excurved at middle, angled 

 inwards at vein 2, then excurved, some yellow before it on inner 

 area and some w^hite points with brown streaks between them 

 beyond it on costa ; an obliquely curved red-brown shade from apex 

 to near the postmedial line with some silvery suffusion below its 

 extremity; subterminal line white and oblique to vein 7, then 

 indistinct, waved, and incurved ; a fine dark terminal line with 

 white line before it from apex to vein 2. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused Avith brown with a slight golden gloss ; an oblique whitish 

 postmedial shade; cilia white with small blackish spots at the 

 veins ; the underside ochreous white, a sinuous brown postmedial 

 line and subterminal shade. 



Sah. Caxada, Ottawa {Young), 1 $, Ontario, Orillia {Bush), 

 2 6 ; U.S.A., Northern, Central, and Middle States, New York 

 {Douhledinj), 1 J, 1 $ type, Evans Center (Grofe), 1 d, 1 ?, 

 Washington, 1 $ . Uxj). 36-42 millim. 



Genus PSEUDEVA, nov. 



T3'pe, P. piirpurigera. 



Proboscis fully developed ; p;ilpi upturned, tlie 2iid joint reacliing to vertex 

 of head and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd rather long and fringed with hair 

 in front; frons smooth, with tuft of hair; eyes large, round, orerluing by long 

 cilia ; aatennic of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, 

 the p;»tagia fringed with long hair-like scales above and at extremity, the pro- 

 thorax with spreading crest, the metathorax with very large crest ; fore tibiie 

 fringed with long hair, the mid and hind tibiaj moderately fringed with liair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, the crests on 1st and 3rd 

 segments large, and with lateral tufts of hair. Fore wing with the apex pro- 

 duced and acute, the termen excised below apex and excurved at middle, not 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anaslomosing with 8 to form the areo'.e ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from 

 well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell njar 

 base only. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line double, angled out- 



wards below costa, then oblique and straight purpurigera. 



B. Fore wing with the postmeclial lino single, excurved 



below costa, then oblique and almost straight; hind 



wing white, the termen suffused with brown palligera. 



C. Fore wing with the postmedial line single, excurved 



below costa, then oblique and incurved at middle ; hind 



wing wholly suffused with brown ruhitjera. 



