BEACHYCOSMIA, COSJIIA. 



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thorax with slight triangular crest; tibite fringed with long hair; abdomen 

 without crests, elongate in female. Fore wing triangular, the costa nearly 

 straight, the apex somewhat produced, 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 with 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. 



2720. Brachycosmia digitalis. 



Anchocelis digitalis, Grote, Bull. U.S. Gi-eol. Geog. Surv. Terr. vi. p. 584 

 (1882) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 215. 



,S . Head and thora.x: bright rufous ; abdomen ochreous tinged 

 ■with rufous and with dorsal brownish segmental bands. Fore wing 

 bright rufous tinged with grejish except on medial area ; a slight 

 pale subbasal line from costa to subraedian fold ; antemedial line 

 Avhitish, oblique, straight ; claviform absent ; orbicular and reni- 

 form very small with slight rufous annuli, the former round and 



Fig. 168. — Brachycosmia digitalis, (S . \. 



touching the antemedial line, the latter narrow, constricted at 

 middle ; postmedial line whitish, slightly bent inwards to costa, 

 >then oblique, straight; subterminal line indistinct, pale, minutely 

 "waved ; a slight dark terminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown 

 tinged with rufous ; cilia pale rufous ; the underside rufous suf- 

 fused with brown except on medial costal area, a small discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedial line. 



$ . Fore wiug with the ante- and postmedial lines strong, pure 

 white. 



Hah. U.S.A., Maine, Xew Hampshire, New York (Hagen), 1 c? , 

 1 2 J Illinois, ^li^j. 26 millira. 



Genus COSMIA. 



Type. 

 Cosmia, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 84 (1816), non descr. ; Treit. 



Schmett.Eur. v. (2) p. 379 (1825) ". fulvago. 



Ochria, Hiibn. Verz. p. 233 (1827) aurago. 



Cirrhia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 234 (_1827) ciirago. 



Citria, Hiibn. Verz. p. 234 fulvago. 



Mellinia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 234 palleago. 



Xantliia, Hiibn. Tent, ined fulvago. 



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

 with hair in front, the 3rd moderate ; irons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 antenntB of male minutely serrate and fascicidate or ciliated ; head and tliorax 

 clothed with hair only, the prothorax with ridge-like crest; abdomen with some 

 rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing 



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