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even, broken sub-terminal line. Hind wings with a reddish shade^ 

 which obtains slightly on apex of primaries. Expanse, 95 mm. 

 Habitat, New Mexico [Grote.] 



Family COSSID.^. 



Synopsis of sub-faiiiilies and genera. 



Vein 8 of secondaries united to sub-costal by a cross-vein. 



Antennje of c5" pectinated for the basal half ; frenuhnn distinct, Zeuzeririie. 

 Antennae of ([5 pectinated to th etip ; frenulum rudimentary, . Cossinje. • 



Sexes appro-ximate in size ........ COSSUS, 



Sexes disproportionate and differently marked . . . Prionoxystus. 



Vein 8 of secondaries free from the base ..... Hypoptinae.- 



Vein II of primaries arising from the accessory cell . . Cossula. 



Vein II from the discal cell ....... Hypopta. 



Subfamily Zeuzerin.«. 



Genus Zeuzera Lalreille. 



\%o\- Zeiizern Latrkh^le, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., Vol. XXIV, p. 1S6. 

 xi^ll -Laiagia Huicb.ner, Verz. bek. Schmett-, p. 196. 



Synopsis of species. 

 Fore wings covered with round blackish spots .... pyrina. 



Fore wings with blackish strigas ...... canadensis. 



C. pyrina Linmeiis. 



1761 -Noclua pyrina Li.nn/EUS, Faun. Suec, p. 3(16. 



ITS^ - P/ia/ctna hypocastani PoD.^, Mus. Grace, p. 88. 



!■](■>■] —Noctua cesculi LlNN.^US. Syst. Nat., Vol. 1(2), p. 833. 



1785 — Phalcena hilaris Fouckoy, Ent. Paris, \'o\. II, p. 306. 



1892 — Zctizera decipiens KluiiY, Cat. Lep. Het., Vol. I, p. 871. 



White, thorax with six round black spots, the two anterior 

 sometimes united ; abdomen black banded with two black spots at 

 base above. Primaries thickly covered with rounded intervenular 

 black spots. Secondaries with smaller and less distinct spots, 

 absent at anal angle. Expanse. 45 — 60 mm. 



Habitat, Europe; vicinity of New York City. 

 Z. canadensis Her rich- Sc/i'dffer. 



1S54 — Zcuzeia canadensis Hk.RRICH-Sch.KKFEK, Ausser. Schmett., Vol. I, 

 f. 168. 



Thorax ochraceous, abdomen paler, more whitish ; primaries 

 white, heavily covered over the basal half below median vein and 

 outwardly centrally almost to margin with a blackish shade ; costa 

 tinged with brown. All the wings thickly covered with partly 



