484 NOCTTJlDiE. 



Genus TRICHOPLEXIA, nov. 



Type, T. exornata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, rounded ; antennte of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with 

 hair only, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibico moderately 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, clothed with 

 rough hair and with lateral fringes of hair. Eore wing rather elongate, the 

 apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and 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 below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing bright rufous contradida. 



13. Fore wing dull purplish rufous exornata. 



3341. Triclioplexia contradicta. 



Hadena contradicta. Smith, Ent. News, Philad. vii. p. 28 (1896) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 116. 



S . Head and thorax bright rufous ; palpi fuscous at sides ; 

 frons with lateral blackish bars ; antennae fuscous ; tarsi black 

 ringed with purplish pink ; abdomen rufous, pale at base. Fore 

 wing bright rufous, the medial and terminal area except at apex 

 slightly tinged with purplish and irrorated with black, the veins 

 Avith some white scales ; a slight black streak below base of cell ; 

 subbasal line waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line strong, black, angled outwards below costa, then excurved ; 



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Fig, 93. — Trichoplexm contradicta, (^ . \. 



claviform narrow, slightly defined by black; orbicular and reniform 

 rather pale, slightly defined by black, the former round, the latter 

 with black mark on its inner edge ; an indistinct curved medial 

 line ; postmedial line strong, black, bent outwards below costa, 

 oblique to vein 5, then incurved and minutely waved, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, pale, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle, angled inwards at discal and 

 submedian folds, the veins beyond it with slight black streaks ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules; cilia fuscous intersected 



