LEPIDOPTERA HETEROOERA. 1681 



Genus COREMIA, C. L. H. xxv. 1303. 



Co RE MIA ALTERNATA. 



Clnerea ; caput nigro-fusco bifasciatum ; alee anticce fascia 

 basali rufescente nigricante marginata, fascia antemedia fus- 

 cescente, fascia media lata nigricante cinereo varia nigro mar- 

 ginata lineam nigram angulosam includente antice dilatata, 

 fascia exteriore lata plagam costalem nigram includente linea- 

 que submarginali angulosa albidis, spatio marginali rufescente; 

 posticce lineis duabus nigricantibus angulosis, linea submar- 

 ginali albida angulosa indeterminata. 



Male. Cinereous. Head with two blackish bands in front. 

 Palpi slightly decumbent, mostly blackish on the outer side, not 

 extending beyond the head ; third joint very short. Antennae 

 densely setulose. Thorax with a blackish band. Abdomen nearly 

 as long as the interior border of the hind wings. Tibiae and tarsi 

 black above ; tips of the former and of the joints of the latter cine- 

 reous. Wings with a black marginal festoon. Fore wings hardly 

 acute, reddish at the base ; this hue bordered by a zigzag blackish 

 line, near which there is a brownish band ; a broad blackish band, 

 varied with cinereous, bordered with black, much dilated in front, 

 including a zigzag black line; a broad exterior whitish band, in- 

 cluding a blackish costal patch ; marginal space irregularly reddish, 

 including a whitish zigzag line ; exterior border slightly convex, 

 moderately oblique. Hind wings with two blackish zigzag lines; 

 these are most distinct on the interior border, where alone two exte- 

 rior black lines are also apparent ; a zigzag whitish very incomplete 

 submarginal line. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 

 13 lines. 



a. North America. From Mr. Carter's collection. 



Core mia pig rata. 



Mas. Ferruginea ; palpi porrecti, lati, pubescentes, obtusi, caput 

 super antes ; antenna setulosa ; alee lineis plurimis fuscis sub- 

 undulalis, fascia nigricante informi nigro marginata, linea 

 postmedia nigra angulosa cinereo pallido marginata, linea sub' 

 marginali albida angulosa, punctis marginalibus nigris ; 

 anticce lineis duabus basalibus nigris denticulatis albido 

 marginatis ; anticce fascia antice dilatata guttam nigram 

 cinereo marginatam includente. 



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