405 



3236. Agroperina morna. (Plate CXYIII. fig. 17.) 



Hadena morula, Street, Eejj. Chief Eng. EufFner, v. p. 1861 (1879) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 134. 

 Hade7ia hulstii, Gfvotn,'^. Am. Ent. i. p. 93 (1880); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 134. 



Head and thorax ochreous white suft'used with rufous ; abdomen 

 ochreous slightl}' tinged with rufous, the lateral fringes of hair and 

 anal tuft bright rufous. Fore wing greyish ochreous suffused with 

 purplish rufous, the veins of terminal half with slight dark streaks ; 

 subbasal line represented b}' faint double oblique rufous striae from 

 costa ; antemedial line very indistinct, rufous, oblique and sinuous to 

 submedian fold, then inwardly obliqiie ; orbicular and reniform 

 small, pale, undefined, the former oblique elliptical, the latter 

 rather constricted at middle and with fuscous mark at lower angle 

 of cell ; a diffused rufous medial line oblique to lower angle of cell, 

 then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line rufous slightly defined by 

 ochreous on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 dentate and produced to dark points on the veins, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique, some slight pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subtermimal line pale, excurved below vein 7, excurved and slightly 

 waved at middle ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia bright rufous 

 slightly mixed with ochreous. Hind wing ochreous white tinged 

 with rufous, the veins and terminal area suffused with brown ; a 

 faint sinuous brown postmedial line ; cilia pale rufous with traces 

 of a brown line near base ; the underside pale ochreous tinged with 

 rufous especially on costal and terminal areas, a slight discoidal 

 lunule and faint diffused curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing pale rufous. 



Ab. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing deep rufous ; abdomen and 

 hind wing more tinged with rufous. 



Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1 S , Brandon 1 5 , Alberta, 

 QsL\%a.ry {Woolley-Dod), 12 cJ , 1 $ ; U.S.A., Wyoming, Yellowstone 

 Park, 1 c? , Colorado, 1 J, 1 $, Glenwood Springs {Barnes), 1 $. 

 Exji. 38-46 millim. 



Genus (EDEREMIA,* nov. 



Type, (E. lithoplasta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned and slightly fringed 

 with hair in front, the 2nd joint hardly reaching middle of frous ; the 3rd 

 short ; frons with rounded prominence with curved corneous plate helow it ; 

 ej'es large, round ; antenna of male ciliated; thorax clothed with scales and 

 hair mixed, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibije moderately 

 fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, the crest on 

 3rd segment large. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen slightly 

 crenulate and somewhat excised towards tornus ; 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 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



*■ This genus might perhaps be better placed as derived from Bryophiku 



