SPRAGUEIA. 669 



Genus SPRAGUEIA. 



Type. 



Spragueia, Grote, Check-List Noct. p. 25 (1875) guttata. 



Proboscis fully developed •. palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of tVons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; froiis with small rounded 

 prominence with slight corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antennae of 

 male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without 

 crest, the metathorax with decumbent crest ; tibite smoothly scaled ; abdomen 

 without crests. Fore wing witb the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved 

 and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a minute longitudinally elongate areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to 

 middle. 



A. Fore wing with pale centre to reniform guttata. 



B. Fore wing without pale centre to reniform. 



a. Fore wing with the terminal area leaden grey, irro- 



rated with white funeralis. 



b. Fore wing with more or less orange-i-ed or rufous on 



terminal area. 

 a^. Fore wing with the antemedial line confluent 



with the postmedial line at inner margin magnifica. 



V-. Fore wing with the antemedial line not confluent 

 with the postmedial line at inner margin. 

 a^. Fore wing with the antemedial line very 



strongly excurved onagrus. 



6'-'. Fore wing with the antemedial line not strongly 

 excurved. 

 a^. Fore wing with the terminal area orange- 

 red. 



a"*. Fore wing with pale costal fascia leo. 



h^. Fore wing with pale patch at middle of 



costa with dark point on it dama. 



b^. Foi'e wing with the terminal area suffused 

 with rufous, 

 a*. Fore wing with blackish patch at base of 

 costa. 

 a^. Fore wing with the cilia yellow and 



rufous jaguaralis. 



b^. Fore wing with the cilia black, whitish 



at tips towards apex grana. 



b*. Fore wing without blackish patch at base 

 of costa. 

 a'. Fore wing with the medial area leaden 



grey plumbifimbriata. 



b'. Fore wing with the medial area black ... obatra. 



6011. Spragueia guttata. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 1.) 



Spragueia guttata, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 225 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 305. 



9 . Head and thorax blackish naixed with yellowish white, 

 the tegulse, patagia, and metathorax bright rufous, palpi yellowish 



