PSEUDANTHCECIA. HAEPAGOPHAlfA. 



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some rough hair at base aud with lateral fringes of hair but without crests. 

 Pore wing rather narrow, the costa slightly concave, the apex somewhat 

 produced, the termen obliquely curved, the inner margin slightly lobed near 

 base ; 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. 



2214. Pseudanthoecia tumida. 



Lygranthmcia tumida, Grote, Bull. Brkln. Ent. Soc. 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 286. 



iii. p. 30 (1880) ; 



J . Head and thorax pale ochreous yellow slightly tinged with 

 rufous ; abdomen orange-yellow with more or less dorsal black 

 suffusion or irroration. Fore wing pale olive-ochreous tinged in 

 parts with rufous and with slight black suffusion in places ; subbasal 

 line represented by traces of a pale oblique striga from costa ; some 

 specimens with traces of a diffused antemedial line ; orbicular 

 represented by a faint lunule, the reniform sometimes by some black 

 scales at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line indistinct, pale, 

 sometimes defined by some dark scales on its inner edge at middle 

 and towards inner margin, oblique from costa to discal fold, 



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Fig. 29. — Pseiulanthoecia tumida, cS • \' 



incurved at submedian fold, some white points usually with minute 

 black streaks between them on costa beyond it ; subterminal line 

 represented by a diffused slightly paler band, bent outwards to apex : 

 a terminal series of slight black points ; cilia yellow at base, their 

 tips chequered whitish and black. Hind wing with the basal half 

 orange-yellow with some black suffusion on inner area ; the terminal 

 half deep black connected with a waved medial line more or less 

 defined by yellow scales on its outer edge ; cilia black at base, 

 white at tips. Underside of both wings orange-yellow, the terminal 

 area black with waved inner edge and with apical white patches 

 with white patches before them on costa. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 S type, (CocJcereU), 2 c? , New Mexico, 

 Beulah (CocitereZZ), 1 c?. ,Krp. 24-28 millim. 



Genus HARPAGOPHANA, nov. 



Type, H. hilaris. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with long hair 

 in front ; frons with corneous prominence with raised edges and slight process 



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