376 IfOCTUIDiE. 



8193. Charadra dispulsa. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 16.) 



Charadra dispuka, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 213 (1874); 

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



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

 black ; antennae red-brown, the shaft white above towards base ; 

 palpi black except at tips ; tegulse with black medial band ; patagia 

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

 blackish spots ; pectus blackish in front ; tibiae and tarsi banded 

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

 wing white slightly irrorated with black, a pale yellow tinge in 

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

 black strise fi'om costa and cell ; a smaU black spot on 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 former 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 slight sinuous blackish medial 

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

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

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

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

 to vein 6, then bent inwards, excm'ved at veins 4, 3, and with 

 minute black spot at submedian fold ; a fine black terminal line 

 interrupted 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 brown and 

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

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

 waved subterminal line and black terminal line from costa to 

 submedian fold. 



$ . Fore wins' with hardly any yellow. 



Hah. U.S.A.r Texas, 1 /, 1 $ . Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus MOMA. 



Type. 



Moma, Hiibn. Verz. p. 203 (1818) ludifica. 



Trichosea, Grote, Eull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 213 (1874) ludifica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint hardly 

 reaching to middle of Irons and rather broadly fringed with hair in front, the 

 3rd short; frons smooth, with tuft of hair; eyes large, round ; antenn£e of 

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

 distinct crests ; tibire moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal 

 series of hairy crests and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulaie ; veins 3 and 6 from near 

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

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

 veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from 

 uoper 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. 



fti. Fore wing with the subterminal line not forming 



dentate black mark between veins 7 and 4 obsolescens. 



