PlIUEYS. — DORTOBES. 113 



strong oblique slightly sinuous chocolate-brown line from apex to 

 inner margin beyond middle with a faint yellowish line on its 

 inner side defined hj 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 irrorated with dark brown, 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. 



Kah. U.S.A., Florida, 1 S type glans ; Hab. igj^., 1 S type 

 perspicna. Exp. 38 millim. 



*7888. Phurys Carolina. 



Fhirys Carolina, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxvii. p. 68 (1*J05). 



c? . 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 

 b}^ 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 uniform 

 dark brown. Underside of both wings yellowish irrorated with 

 fuscous and with indistinct discoidal spots. 



§ . Fore wing with the markings almost obsolete. 



Sal. U.S.A., N. Carolina. JExp. 34 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



Genus DORYODES. „ 



Type. 



Bonjodcs, Giien. Ur. & Phal. ii. p. 233 (1857) bistrialis. 



'Iheimna, Wlk. xxvii. 186 (1863; spadaria. 



Tiinza, Wlk. xxvii. 1C6 (1863) spadaria. 



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

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

 moderate, porrect ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; 

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

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

 smoothly scaled, all the tibia 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 ^ from near 

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

 the areole ; 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 uppei- 

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

 middle. 



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