BRACHYLOMIA, 221 



2367. Brachylomia populi. 



Cleoceris jMjmli, Street. Lep. Ebop. & Het., Suppl. i. p. 8 (1898) ; Dyar, 

 Oat. Lep. N. Am. p. 168. 



Head and thorax grey-white inixed with fuscous ; teguloe with 

 orange-fulvous band near base and blackish band near tips ; fore 

 tarsi banded with black; abdomen brownish grey irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing grey-white, thickly irrorated with black and 

 sulTused with orange-fulvous at base of costal area and on medial 

 and postmedial areas ; subbasal line indistinct, defined by whitish 



Fig. 67. — Brach//lo/nia jyopuli, J. ]. 



on outer side, irregular, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line defined by fulvous on inner side, erect, slightly waved ; orbicular 

 and reniform undefined, fulvous with some grey and black in centres, 

 Ihe former elliptical, the latter narrow; traces of a diffused medial 

 line ; postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4 to inner edge of reniform ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with a dark line 

 through them. Hind wing white tinged with pale red-brown ; a 

 fine brown terminal line ; cilia white ; the underside with slight 

 discoidal lunule and cuiwed diffused postmedial line. 



Ab. ]. Whiter; fore wing with the fulvous suffusion slight, a 

 diffused blackish medial band ; hind wing whiter. 



Ab. 2. Thorax blackish ; fore wing with hardly a trace of fulvous 

 suffusion, the basal half blackish bounded by a strong black medial 

 band ; hind wing whiter. 



Hab. Canada, Alberta, Calgary (Wollei/-Dod), 3 c? , 2 $ ; U.S.A., 

 Coloi'ado. Exj). 34 millim. 



*2368. Brachylomia rectifascia. (Plate CI. fig. 29.) 



Bryohofa rectifascia, Smith. Ti-ans. Am. Ent. Soe. sviii. p. 108 (1891) ; 

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



Head and thorax blue-grey ; teguhie with broad black medial line. 

 Fore wing blue-grey ; subbasal line distinct, pale, obscurely double, 

 ending at the short black streak below base of cell, the base of costa 

 paler, tinged with rufous ; antemedial line erect or slightly oblique, 

 double, the outer line strong and touching the orbicular ; claviform 

 small, represented by a slight reddish tinge ; reniform large, suffused 

 with brick-red; medial line prominent, black, forming the inner 



