FERALIA. MOMAPHANA. 



2333. Feralia major. (Plate CI. fig. 14.) 



199 



Feralia major. Smith, Ent. Am. \\. p. 26 (1890) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 34. 



Head and thorax clothed with grey and dark iron-brown scales 

 and hair ; tibiae and tarsi white banded with brown ; abdomen red- 

 brown mixed with grey-white, the ventral surface whitish. Fore 

 wing grey-white thickly irrorated with dark iron-brown, the medial 

 and postmedial areas almost wholly sufi'used with iron-brown, the 

 costa with alternate brown and whitish marks ; antemedial line 

 very indistinct, waved; claviform, orbicular, and reniform greyer, 

 very indistinctly defined, the claviform confluent with the orbicular 

 which is somewhat quadrate, the reniform strongly constricted at 

 middle ; postmedial line unusually near termen, minutely waved, 

 slightly incurved from costa to vein 4, then very obliquely incurved, 

 a brown patch beyond it above tornus ; a terminal series of minute 

 brown points ; cilia chequered white and brown. Hind wing white 

 suffused and irrorated with iron-brown, the veins brown ; cilia 

 white slightly intersected with brown ; the underside whiter, a 

 diffused oblique brown antemedial line, discoidal spot, and curved 

 postmedial line showing through to upperside. 



Hah. U.S.A., JN'ew Hampshire, Plattsburg, New York, 1 S > 

 District of Columbia. Exp. 42 millim. 



Genus MOMAPHANA. „, 



Type. 



Momaphcma, Grote, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxvi. p. 195 (1875) comstocci. 



ArthracUora, Grote, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxvi. p. 197 (1875) februalis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, fringed with long hair in front ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male bipectinate with moderate 

 branches decreasing in length to base and apex, of female minutely serrate ; 

 head and thorax clothed with rough hair and hair-like scales, the vertex of 

 head crested, the prothorax with slight spreading crest, the meso- and meta- 

 thorax with divided crests; pectus and legs clothed with long hair and scales, 

 the tarsal joints with tufts of hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base but 

 without crests and with lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with 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 just below middle of discoeellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the subterminal line obsolete except at costa 



and tornus. 

 a. Fore wing with black suflFusion on medial area in, below, 



and beyond cell comstocci. 



\ b. Fore wing without black suffusion on medial area februalis. 



B. Fore wing with the subterminal line entire brilliaiis. 



2339. Momaphana comstocci. 



Feralia coiiistocJci, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 59 (1874) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 34. 



S . Head and thorax pale bright green ; sides of palpi and frons 

 with some black; a black bar between antennae; tegulae with 



