39-i IfOCTUID^. 



2578. Bryomima chryselectra. (Plate CVIII. fig. 4.) 



Hadena clirysclccfra, Grote, Can. Ent. xii. p. 244 (1880); Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 147. 

 Ferigea henigna, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 122 (1884) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 154. 



2 . Head and thorax whitish suffused with pale pinkish ; palpi 

 tinged with fuscous at sides ; tegulae with a few black scales ; 

 prothoracic crest mixed with brown ; tarsi blackish ringed with 

 white ; abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused with fuscous, the base 

 white. Fore wing white irrorated with a few dark scales, the 

 ante- and postmedial areas pale pinkish ; subbasal line double, 

 dark, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 double, dark, irregularly waved ; claviform absent ; orbicular and 

 reniform small, defined by black, the former round ; an irregular 

 medial shade obsolescent except towards costa; postmedial line 

 double, bent outwards below costa, then waved, excurvcd to vein 4, 

 then strongly incurved and bent outwards to inner margin, some 

 white points bej'ond it on costa ; subterminal line defined only by 

 fuscous dentate marks on inner side, dentate, above and below 

 vein 5 angled inwards to near postmedial line ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; cilia ochreous white. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with brown, the terminal area broadly fuscous brown ; 

 traces of a discoidal point and postmedial line : cilia pale yellow ; 

 the underside white slightly irrorated with brown and the terminal 

 area tinged with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Arizona, Cochise Co., "Wilgus, 1 5 • 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



Suhsp. 1. Head and thorax suffused with deep olive fuscous ; fore 

 wing with the ante- and postmedial areas deep olive fuscous, the 

 dentate medial shade strong. 



Mab. Mexico, Orizaba (ScJiaiis), 1 5 . 



Genus BLEPHARIDIA: ^ 



Type. 

 Blcpharidia, Pling. Iris, xiii. p. 122 (1900) lama. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with long 

 hair in front ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna of male typically 

 minutely serrate and fasciculate ; head and thorax!clothed with hair and hair- 

 like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibia fringed with 

 hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the termen 

 crenulate ; 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 

 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosiiig with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectiuate with moderate branches, the apical third 

 serrate. 



2579. Blepharidia amicina. 



Hadena amicina, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 322 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 171. 



S . Head and thorax rufous, the scales slightly tipped with grey ; 

 abdomen rufous, the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing rufous. 



