PAKASTICHTIS. EUEABILA. 



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gvGj annuli defined by brown, the former elliptical, somewhat 

 oblique, the latter filled in with fuscous; an indistinct waved 

 medial line ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate and produced to a double series of black points on 

 the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, with blackish 

 spots on inner side at discal and submedian folds and sometimes a 

 series of slight dentate brown marks, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle, the area beyond it usually more or less suffused with fuscous 

 except at apex ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with 

 a slight pale line at base. Hind wing greyish suftused with ochreous 

 brown, the terminal area with fuscous ; cilia ochreous white with a 

 brown line through them except towards tornus ; the underside 

 grey, the costal area tinged with purplish and irrorated with 

 fuscous, a black discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. CAJfADA (Norman)^ 2 c?, 1 § , Manitoba, Cartwright 

 (Heath), 3 6 , Alberta, Calgary ( WoUey-Dod), 1 J , 1 $ ; U.S.A., 

 South to Texas, Massachusetts, New York, Evans Center (G^roie), 

 1 c? , 1 $ , Colorado. Exp. 42-48 millim. 



Genus EURABILA. 



Type. 



Eurabila, Butl. 111. Het. E. M. vii. p. 39 (1889) Ugnea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, moderately scaled, 

 the 2ocl joint reaching^ about middle of Irons, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; anteunre of nnale ciliated and somewhat laminate; head and 

 thorax clothed cliieSy with scales, tegulse produced to a slight dorsal ridge, 

 tliorax with single broad ridge-like dorsal crest ; tibite moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen with complete series of dorsal crests, the crests on 3rd and 4tLi 

 segments large, some rough hair at base and latei'al fringes of hair. Fore 

 wmg triangular, the apex rounded, the ternien crenulate ; veins 3 aud 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 ivoxu 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 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



2855. Eurabila lignea. 



Eurabila lignea, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. vii. p. 40, pi. 128. f. 6 (1889); 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 210. 



Head fuscous and white mixed ; tegulos and patagia purple with 

 a few white scales, the dorsal ridge ochreous ; pectus and legs grey 

 and fuscous mixed ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous 

 suffused with red-brown except at base. Fore wing ochreous white 

 mostly suffused with rufous, the costal area whitish suffused with 

 fuscous to subterminal line, the median nervure and veins 4, 3, 1 

 finely streaked with white ; a slight whitish streak in base of sub- 

 median fold ; subbasal line defined on each side by whitish, angled 

 outwards below costa, then oblique and ending at submedian fold, 

 some reddish beyond its lower extremity followed by a rufous band 

 from submedian fold to inner margin ; antemedial line double, 

 rufous filled in with white, waved, oblique from costa to submedian 



