DOETODES. — NYMBIS. . 115 



slightly irrorated with brown ; a black point in middle of cell 

 and discoidal point ; a silvery white streak along median nervvire 

 to^ vein 5 beyond the cell defined below by a slight dark streak and 

 with a chocolate-brown fascia below it and beyond it to the 

 postmedial line, which is silvery white, arising from apex and 

 obliquely downcurved to vein 2 below end of cell, defined on inner 

 side by a fine dark line and on outer side also from below apex to 

 vein 5 ; an indistinct brown subterminal line except towards inner 

 margin ; a fine dark terminal line and a slight brown line near 

 base of cilia. Hind wing pale ochreons, the cilia whitish. 



Hah. U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and Southern States, 2 c? , 4 5 , 

 Maine, Massachusetts {PacJcarcl), 1 S , Kansas. Exp. 34-40 

 mlllim. 



7891. Doryodes spadaria. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 11.) 



Don/odes spadaria, Guen. Ur. & Phal. ii. p. 234 (1857) ; Sraitli, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 192. 

 Themma divisa, VVJk. xxvii, 186 (1863). 

 Tunza promiytcUa, Wlk. xxvii. 195 (1863). 



Head and thorax pale ochreous tinged with browm ; antennae 

 with the branches brown ; palpi and fore legs in front reddish 

 brown ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous tinged and 

 slightly irrorated with brown : a black point in middle of cell and 

 discoidal point ; a silvery white streak on median nervure and base 

 of vein 5 defined below by a slight dark streak and with a 

 chocolate-brown shade below it ; postmedial line silvery white 

 dafined by fine dark brown lines, arising from apex and oblique 

 to vein 3 just beyond end of cell ; an indistinct brown subterminal 

 line except towards inner margin ; a fine dark terminal line and 

 slight brown line near base of cilia. Hind wing white faintly 

 tinged with ochreous brown. 



Ab. 1. frowptella. Fore wing with the cell and the area beyond 

 it to the submarginal line clearer ochreous. 



Hal. U.S.A. Florida, St. John's Bluff {DouUeday), 4^,1$ 

 type divisa ; Has. ign., 1 S type promptella. Exp. 40-44 

 millim. 



Genus NYMBIS. 



Type. 

 Nymhis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 320 (1852) iniqua. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; f'rons smooth, with tuft of 

 hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennee of male with bristles and cilia ; 

 thorax clothed wiih scales and hair mixed and vi'ithout crests; fore tibiae not 

 spined, the hind tibiaa spined between the mid and terminal spurs only; abdo- 

 men smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat 

 produced and acute, the terinen evenly curved and slightly crenulnte ; veins 3 

 and 5 IVora near angle of cell ; 6 froiu upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one- 

 third length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just 

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

 only. = ^^ 



