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64. Dasypoudaea meadi. (Plate LY. fig. 25.) 



HdiotUs meadi, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 121, pi. 3. f. 5 (1873); 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Ain. p. 2S6. 



Head and thorax clothed with pale greenish-yellow and white 

 hair; pectus, legs, and abdomen white. Pore Aving pale yellow- 

 green, tinged with black in places ; a silvery- white mark at base 

 conjoined at median nervure to the curved subbasal white line 

 defined on outer side by some black scales ; the antemedial line 

 curved and defined by some black scales, expanding into a triangular 

 white mark on costal area ; the medial area with whitish patches 

 on costal area and in and below cell, defining the green orbicular 

 and reniform stigmata ; the postmedial line silvery white, defined 

 by black scales on outer side, acutely angled outwards beyond 

 lower angle of cell and incurved above and below that point ; the 

 terminal area with white patches at apex and from vein 4 to 

 tornus, defining a dentate subterminal line ; cilia chequered white 

 and green. Hind wing white ; the basal and costal areas suffused 

 with black confluent with the large black discoidal lunule ; the 

 terminal area black, its inner edge rather irregular and indented 

 towards tornus and with white subterminal patch between veins 

 2 and 4. Underside white ; fore wing with patch below the cell, 

 orbicular, reniform, and postmedial band black ; hind wing with 

 discoidal lunule and postmedial band towards tornus black. 



Hah. U.S.xi., Oregon, 1 c? , Montana, Colorado, 1 2 . Exp. 

 28 millim. 



Genus CHARICLEA. 



Type. 



Chariclea, Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 76 (1825) ddjiliini. 



Periphana, Hiibn. Verz. p. 247 (1827) delphini. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to just beyond frons and 

 fringed with hair below ; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate 

 below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antennre of male minutely ciliated ; head and 

 thorax clothed with hair only, the latter rather quadrately, and with crests 

 on pro- and metathorax ; tibia thickly fringed with hair, the fore tibia: short 

 and broad, witli long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer, the 

 mid and hind tibire very sliglitly spined ; abdomen dorsally clothed with rough 

 hair at base and with crest on 1st segment. Fore wing with the apex 

 moderately produced ; reins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent fr(mi middle of 

 discocellulars ; (1, 7 from upper angle. 



» 65. Chariclea delphini. 



Noctua delpliinli, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. .518 (1758) ; Eep. Schmett. iv. 

 pi. 175. ff. 1-4; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. pi. 42. f. 204 & pi. 137. 

 f. 622; Dup. Hist. Nat. liep. Fr. vu. pi. 110. f. 1; Steph. 111. Brit. 

 Ent., Haust. iii. p. 92 ; Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 76 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 223. 



Head and thorax ochreous white, the palpi, frons, and metathorax 

 tinged with rufous, the tegultc and patagia Avith olive ; legs tinged 



