EPIDEMAS. BOMBYCIA, 



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defined by a few black scales ; orbicular small, incompletely defined 

 by black, oblique elliptical; reniform defined by black on inner 

 side only ; postmedial line indistinct, double, strongly bent out- 

 ■wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of indistinct dark points in the inter- 

 spaces ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules ; cilia chequered 

 fuscous and pale brown. Hind wing white irrorated with pale 

 brown, a slight discoidal spot, indistinct curved postmedial line 

 and fine dark terminal line ; the underside with the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, the discoidal spot blackish, 

 the postmedial line more distinct. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman (Doane), 1 S- Exp. 36 

 millim. 



Genus BOMBYCIA. 



Type. 



Bomhi/cia, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 57 (1829), nee 



Hiibn. Tent, ined viminalis. 



Cleoceris, Boisd. Ind. Metb. p. 93 ( 1840) viminalis. 



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

 below ; frons smooth ; eyes rather small, rounded ; antenntc of male typically 

 bipectinate, with short branches, the apical part serrate ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreadine; 

 crests ; pectus and tibife clothed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests 

 on basal segmei-.ts and lateral fringes of hair towards extremity. Fore wing 

 rather long and narrow, the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen 

 obliquely curved ; 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 

 vfith veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with rather long branches, almost 

 to apex. 



A. Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards on median 



nervure curvifascia. 



B. Fore wing with the reniform not angled inwards on 



median nervure. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular moderate, elliptical elda. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular as large as reniform and 



rather quadrate ony china. 



2363. Bombycia curvifascia. (Plate CI. fig. 28.) 



Dryohota curvifascia, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 109 (1891) ; id. 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 215. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with black ; tegulse 

 with slight reddish tinge at base and black medial line ; patagia 

 with blackish line near edges; tarsi black ringed with white. Fore 

 wing grey slightly tinged with brown, and irrorated and suffused 

 with fuscous ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; subbasal 

 line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 mediai line indistinctly double, waved, somewhat oblique ; clavi- 

 form represented by a small diffused dark patch ; orbicular and 



