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CIRPHIS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
commoides. 
phragmiti- 
dicnla. 
rdfteo la. 
jar cl a. 
socorrcnsis. 
pyrastis. 
relva. 
clarescens. 
opalisans. 
scirpicola. 
imperfecta. 
between the branches rising from the cell; the apex is parted by a whitish patch; in the cell-end and post- 
medianly on the lower median and middle radial one black dot each. Hindwing transparent white. Expanse 
of wings: 36 mm. Guatemala. 
C. commoides On. (24 b) is larger and stronger, with dark reddish-brown hindwings, a darker brownish 
ground-colour of the forewing, with more prominently white veins, particularly the median; above the proximal 
margin a black longitudinal stripe, in the marginal area black internerval streaks; Canada to Mexico. 
C. phragmitidicola On. (24b) is very similar, often still larger and with white hindwings being brownish 
only at the margin. This species and commoides have smaller hair-tufts on the anterior and posterior tibiae 
than multilinea (24 a). Canada to New Mexico. — The larva is straw-coloured brownish, darker striped, with 
a light, darker edged dorsal line, broader subdorsal lines and a narrow light lateral line. 
C. roseola 8m. (24 b) is on its light ochreous ground tinted pink with white veins finely bordered 
with pink, and pink internerval stripes, in the lower cell-end a small white spot with a black dot, behind 
it 2 postmedian black dots. Hindwing white, apex and margin smoked yellowish. Canada to Washington 
and Oregon. — The larva is light brownish-yellow with a narrow white, brown-edged dorsal line and a 
black subdorsal band, with a white one below it; a lateral white line and a white band below it in a grey 
strewn ground. It lives on grasses. 
C. farcta Grt. (24 c) is very similar, on an average larger, without the pink tints and marked much 
paler, the veins less clearly marked white and without the distinct white spot in the lower cell-end. Hindwing 
of a purer white. California. —- The larva resembles that of ‘phragmitidicola, but it is lighter straw-coloured 
with a distinct dark shade between the lateral and stigmata! lines. 
C. socorrensis Dogn. Forewing light ochreous-brown, submedianly and in a small spot behind the 
cell darker; in the basal half of the proximal margin and at the cell-end accumulations of white scales; 
the veins are partly white with brown internerval streaks. Hindwing blackish with an ochreous-yellowish 
basal line of the fringes. Below the cell of the forewing is long-haired. Expanse of wings: 39 to 42 mm. 
Colombia (Mt. Socorro). 
C. pyrastis Hmps. (24b) has golden yellow forewings scantily strewn with black; the veins, costal- 
marginal area and 2 broad stripes at the proximal margin and above the lower median vein and obliquely 
to the apex dusted with flesh-coloured reddish; the end of the median is lighter than the ground; postmedian 
black dots on the veins, and the apex parted by yellowish. Hindwing diaphanous white, in the apical mar¬ 
ginal half brown. Paraguay. 
C. velva Schs. approximates pyrastis (24 b), on the forewing the costal-marginal area, the proximal 
margin, a shade below the cell-end and between the median branches being united with an oblique subapical 
shade, are purple grey strewn with black, the rest of the ground of the wing yellow mixed with red, in the 
marginal area dusted with purple grey; at the end of the median a short white streak, behind it a post¬ 
median row of dots on the veins. Hindwing diaphanous white. Expanse of wings: 33 mm. Guatemala. 
C. clarescens Mschlr. (24 a). Ochreous-brownish, tinted pink, at the costal, proximal and distal 
margins scantily strewn with black, with a black, below brownish-red basal ray and a similar one above the 
proximal margin. On the median a white, at the cell-end hook-shaped stripe with a black dot in the centre, 
2 veins from the lower cell-end are likewise white, above them black internerval streaks, the space above the 
lower median branch dusted with lilac grey and with a postmedian row of black dots on the veins; the apex 
is parted by an oblique grey shade, the fringes are speckled dark brown. Hindwing whitish, veins and margin 
reddish-yellow. Cuba, Porto Rico, Bahamas. 
C. opalisans sp. n. (24 c) is a larger species with an intense silk lustre and iridescent hindwings; 
forewing light yellow, but the ground-colour is pure only in an oblique apical patch, whilst the rest of the 
wing is densely strewn with red-brown, in the cell and behind it uniformly dusted, the costal margin broadly 
whitish with a purple grey tint, and like the similarly coloured veins strewn with blackish; at the end of the 
median there is a pure, white small spot, above it a minute accumulation of black scales; a faint, bent post- 
median row of dots. Hindwing diaphanous whitish, at the margin and on the veins smoky. One $ from 
the Canon del Monte Tolima (Colombia). 
C. scirpicola On. (= calpota Sm.) (24 c) resembles a dark phragmitidicola, being brownish-ochreous 
with lighter veins bordered with a darker colour and dark internerval lines, below and above the median with 
a dark nebulous stripe being continued to a dark marginal triangle; at the lower cell-end there is a white 
dot. Hindwing dirty yellowish-white with darker veins and margin. Expanse of wings: 35 to 38 mm. Texas. 
C. imperfecta Sm. (24 c) is more brownish-grey, strewn with black, with yellowish tinted stripes sub¬ 
medianly, in and behind the cell-end and obliquely to the apex, with a black basal and proximal-marginal 
ray, a short, white, hook-shaped streak at the end of the median and a black dot in the lower cell-end; in 
