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red-brown except at base. Pore wing pale grey thickl}- irrorated 

 witb reddish brown ; antemedial line brownish, faint oblique and 

 slightly sinuous to median nervure, then almost obsolete ; a slight 

 dark mark at lower angle of cell on a curved medial shade ; post- 

 medial line very indistinct, slightly bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique to above vein 5, where it is angled outwards, then inwardly 

 oblique and minutely waved ; subterrainal line grey defined on each 

 side by dark shades, somewhat oblique from costa to below vein 6. 

 Hind wing yellow, some brownish suffusion at base extending on 

 costal area to middle ; terminal area blackish, expanding at middle, 

 its inner edge excurved at submedian fold to near termen ; the 

 termen slightly yellowish at apex ; cilia yellowish white with some 

 brown at base between veins 6 and 2. Underside of fore wing 

 yellowish white, the costa, an oblique medial band from costa to 

 vein 1, and the terminal area blackish brown ; hind wing as above, 

 but with the basal costal area and the postmedial area whitish 

 irrorated with brown, a diffused oblique brown medial band from 

 costa to beyond lower angle of cell, then slight and at submedian 

 fold bent inwards to above vein 1. 



Ab. 1. helfrageana. Fore wing with the markings almost obsolete; 

 hind wing without any brown at base, the terminal band ending at 

 vein 2 and separated from a spot on vein 1, the termen vrith more 

 yellow, and the cilia without any brown ; the underside with the 

 medial band almost obsolete. — Texas. 



Hah. U.S.A., Kansas (Snow), 1 $ , Texas, 1 c? , 1 $ type heJ- 

 frarjiana. Exp. 50-54 millim. 



Genus CORISCE. r^^ 



Corisc-, Hiibu. Verz. p. 278 (1827) arnica. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, tbe 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the 

 prothorax with slight spreading crest, the metathorax without crest ; tibite 

 moderately fringed with hair, the mid tibiaj spined, dilated, and with a fold 

 containing a tuft of hair; abdomen slender, smoothly scaled and without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell 

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

 above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



7327. Corisce arnica. 



F4}hesia arnica, Hlibn. Zutr. i. p. 14, fF. 57, 58 (1818); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 330. 

 Catocala androphila, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 106 (1852). 

 Catocala lineella, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 18 (1872). 

 Catocala nerissa, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 61 (1880). 

 Catocala jair, Street. Ent. News Philad. viii. p. 116 (1897); Dyar, Cat. 



Lep. N. Am. p. 231. 

 Catocala suffusa, Beutenm. Bull. Am. Mus. xix. p. 508 (1903). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with reddish brown and 



