MELAPOBPHYEIA. DrsOCNEMIS. 



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:and slightly curved, the area beyoud it yellow-brown; cilia dark 

 brown mixed with ochreous. Hind wing yellow-brown ; the basal 

 half snfFused with black to the curved medialline ; diffused blackish 



Fig. 9. — Melapoiyhyria immortua, S ' \- 



postmedial and terminal bands. Underside yellow-brown ; both 

 wings with the basal area blackish, conjoined to the diffused 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Massachusetts, j^ewton, 1 S Grote Coll., IS^ew 

 York, Colorado, New Mexico, Gullinas Canon (Coclcerell), 1 c? . 

 Eivp. 28 millim. 



Genus DYSOCNEMIS. 



Type. 



Dt/socncmis, Grote, Eevised Check List, p. 34 (1890), nou descr. hcUadonna. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short, clothed with long hair ; 

 frous with rounded pi'ominence ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair ; 

 eyes small, reniform ; antennas of male minutely ciliated ; fore tibia spined at 

 sides ; mid and hind tibi« spined. Fore wing short and broad ; veins 3 and 5 

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

 to form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or 

 -shortly stalked. 



A- Fore wing with the medial area prominently whitish. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform almost obsolete 



above 2}''''0Tupta. 



h. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform prominent belladonna. 



B. Fore wing with the medial area not prominently whitish. 

 a. Hind wing with the whitish medial band not indented by 



the black discoidal spot horealis. 



h. Hind wing with the whitish medial band indented by 



the black discoidal spot oregonica. 



23. Dysocnemis prorupta. 



Hclioihis 23rorwptus, Grote, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. iv. p. 294 (1873) ; Smith, Cat. 



jSToct. N. Am. p. 287. 

 Melicleptria venusta, H. Edw. Pi'oc. Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 133 (1875). 



Head and thorax black-brown tinged with crimson ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen clothed with long black hair, the anal tuft whitish at 

 extremity. Pore wing black-brown suffused, with crimson ; the 

 basal area bounded by the black antemedial line, wTiich is excurved 

 below costa and to inner margin ; the medial area white, slightly 

 irrorated with fuscous or sometimes suffused with red-brown ; the 



