SPBAQTTEIA. — GE^PEEIA. 675 



6019. Spragueia plumbifiinl)riata. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 8.) 



Spragueia pluonhifimbriata, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 68 (1877); Smithy Cat. 

 Nocfc. N. Am. p. 304. 



Head and thorax creamy white more or less suffused with rufous ; 

 palpi at tips and antennae rufous ; tarsi rufous ringed with white ; 

 abdomen creamy white, more or less suffused on dorsum with rufous 

 leaving pale segmental lines. Fore wing yellowish white suffused 

 with rufous except on costal area ; some leaden grey sometimes 

 present at base of inner margin ; antemedial line yellowish white 

 with rufous sufi'usion before it from cell to inner margin, curved, a 

 broad leaden-grey band beyond it ; orbicular and reniform leaden 

 grey obscurely defined by yellowish white, small, round ; postmedial 

 line represented by an irregular rufous patch on costa above reniform 

 and some rufous beyond the reniform, from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin yellowish white defined on inner side by rufous, 

 incurved and slightly sinuous, with a broad leaden-grey band 

 beyond it ; subterminal line indistinct, yellowish white, incurved 

 below vein 4 and bent outwards to tornus ; a punetiform rufous 

 terminal line defined on inner side by yellowish white ; cilia leaden 

 white. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with reddish brown, 

 darker on terminal half ; cilia whitish, with a brown line through 

 them ; the underside ochreous white with brown discoidal bar and 

 some brown suffusion on terminal area. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 1 c? , 1 5 type, Kerrville, 1 $ , Arizona 

 {Poling), 1 2 , Willgus, 1 § , Huachuca Mts., 1 § , Babaquivera 

 Mts., 1 ? . Exp. 18-22 millim. 



*6020. Spragueia. obatra. 



Tarache obatra, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 124. (1875) ; Smitii, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 305. 



Head and thorax deep yellow ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing 

 with the basal area deep yellow, the medial area black, the terminal 

 area brown ; a broad yellow costal fascia from apex to the middle 

 of medial area ; postmedial line strongly angled outwards below 

 costa, defined on inner side by a brown shade. Hind wing blackish ; 

 the underside yellowish grey with traces of medial and terminal 

 shades. 



Hah. U.S.A., Louisiana. Exp. 17 millim. This species i» 

 unknown to me. 



Genus GRiEPERIA. 



Type. 

 Heliodora, Neumcegen, Can. Ent. xxiii. p. 125 (1891), nee Heliodore, 



Stai, Hem. 1867 costalis. 



GrcBperia, Grote, Abb. Nat. Ver. Brem. xiv. p. 108 (1895) costalis. 



Tornacontia, Smitb, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 55 (1900) suirix. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porreet, short ; frons with 

 flattened corneous plate at middle and corneous plate below it ; eyes large, 



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