200 



NOCTTJIDJE. 



some black at base and black tips ; patagia black on outer side ; 

 meso- and metajthoracic crests black ; tibiae and tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen pale greenish irrorated with black and with dorsal 

 black patches. Fore wing pale bright green ; some black at base 

 of costa ; subbasal line obliquely curved, formed by small black 

 spots below costa and cell and diffused black on inner margin at 

 base ; antemedial line from costa close to subbasal line, formed by 

 small black spots below costa and cell, and a line from submedian 

 fold to inner margin angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reni- 

 from rather quadrate, defined by black at sides, open above and 



Fig. 56. — Momaphana comstocci, S - \- 



below and with black patches between them and beyond the latter 

 extending to postmedial line ; medial line represented by a striga 

 from costa, a curved bar from cell to submedian fold with black 

 suffusion beyond it to postmedial line and a striga at inner margin; 

 postmedial line formed by a strong oblique black bar from costa, 

 then dentate, excurved at middle and incurved below vein 3, with 

 some black beyond it in submedian interspace ; a terminal series of 

 black points ; cilia chequered black and green. Hind wing pale 

 green, the terminal half irrorated with black, some of the scales 

 forming a diffused subterminal band ; the underside with diffused 

 antemedial line angled outwards below costa and at vein 1, a large 

 discoidal lunule, a diffused postmedial line angled outwards at middle, 

 5 . Hind wing more suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. Canada, Orilla {Biish), 1 $ ; U.S.A., New York, 1 S type. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



2340. Momaphana februalis. (Plate CI. fig. 15.) 



Feralia februalis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 60 (1874) ; Smitl^, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 33. 



cJ . Head and thorax emerald-green ; palpi and frons black at 

 sides ; antennae pale fulvous, whitish at base ; tegulae with some 

 black and white at base and some black at tips; patagia with 

 some black on outer edges and at tips ; metathorax with two black 

 points ; tarsi banded with black and white ; abdomen fulvous 

 yellow, the base whitish with black dorsal mark, the extremity 

 pale green with black dorsal mark on subterminal segment, the 

 ventral surface pale green with slight black bands. Pore wing 

 emerald-green ; subbasal line black defined by white on inner side, 

 interrupted, angled outwards in cell and ending in submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line black defined by white on outer side, interrupted, 



