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Genus APHARETRA. 



Type. 

 Apharetra, Grofce, Proc. Eiit. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 363 (1901), non 



descr dentata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2ad joint fringed 

 with rough hair ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round, overhung by long cilia ; 

 antennae of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed with rough scales and 

 hair, the prothorax witli spreading crest ; mid and hind tibias spined towards 

 extremities ; abdomen smoothly scaled. Pore wing rather narrow, the margins 

 subparallel, the apex rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from near 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 from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



Differs from Isoclilora in the thorax being clothed with scales and 

 hair. 



A. Foi-e wing grey-brown ; hind wing yellowish, the terminal area 



brown dentata. 



B. Fore wing black mixed with grey ; hind wing fuscous 'pyralis, 



1019 a. Apharetra dentata. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 21.) 



Apatela dentata, G-rote, Can. Bnt. vii. p. 222 (1875) ; Smith, Oat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 37. 



S . Head and thorax grey-brown ; tarsi banded with blackish ; 

 abdomen pale ochreous brown. Fore wing grey, suffused and 

 iiTorated with brown, especially beyond the reniform and on 

 medial part of terminal area ; the subbasal line represented by 

 a black striga from costa ; the antemedial line oblique from costa 

 to median nervure, then irregularly waved ; orbicular and reniform 

 greyish, the former very ill defined, the latter rather large and 

 defined by black ; postmedial line minutely dentate, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some 

 pale points on costa towards apex ; subterminal line very indistinct 

 and somewhat dentate, defined by a brown shade on its inner side 

 at costa and obscured by the brown patch on medial part of 

 terminal area ; a terminal series of small blackish lunules ; cilia 

 chequered fuscous and grey. Hind wing j^ellowish, the terminal 

 area sufi'nsed with brown; the cilia whitish, with a brown line 

 through them ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Canada ; U.S.A., Eastern and Northern States, 1 cS type, 

 Adirondack Mts. Exjp. 34 millim. 



*1019 />. Apharetra pyralis. (Plate LXKVIII. fig. 22.) 



Acrony eta pyralis, Smith, Ent. News Philad. vii. p. 26 (1896) ; Dyar, Oat. 

 , N. Am.'Lep. p. 105. 



2 . Head and thorax black mixed with grey ; tarsi ringed with 

 grey ; abdomen fuscous brown irrorated with grey. Fore wing 



