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H. peralto Barnes (27 e) is very similar to the preceding, forewing brown with a slight olive tint, finely per alto. 
strewn with white, with very similar markings, the anterior transverse line obliquely to the centre of the hind- 
margin, the posterior line almost straight to the hind-margin after a slight bend round the reniform macula 
which is larger and almost quadrangular; undulate line hardly traceable, marginal line composed of white 
arcuate lines. Hindwing as in senescens. Arizona. 
H. cristifer Dyar (27 e) is much paler greyish-brown, of a more uniform colouring, the central area cristifer. 
not darkened, much more finely irrorated with white, not so coarsely strewn, the very large maculae being 
finely surrounded with whitish are inside darker than the ground, the subterminal area just a trifle lighter; 
before the margin there are small, flat, dark crescents, on both sides bordered with whitish. Hindwing uniformly 
brownish-grey with light fringes. Mexico (Zacualpan). 
H. farinosa sp. n. (27 e) is the largest species, forewing dark brown, throughout strewn with greyish- farinosa. 
white scales across the whole surface, so that the markings are extremely difficult to discern merely by somewhat 
denser accumulations, and there are indeed only recognisable a narrow, oblique reniform macula and the fine 
arcuate lines of the marginal line. Hindwing brown, towards the base with a slight coppery reflection and 
greyish-white fringes parted by a dark line. Mexico (Zacualpan), discovered by Robert Mueller. Type in 
the Coll. Draudt. 
H. nudor Dyar (27 e). Here the white irroration is almost entirely absent, the ground-colour changes nudor. 
from a greyish brown to coppery brown, the central area is somewhat darker prominent, narrow, bordered 
by the dark transverse lines, and in it, obliquely inwards, a faded median line extends from the lower end of 
the reniform macula to the hind-margin; maculae darker than the ground, in light rings, the reniform macula 
strangulated, below somewhat more blackish; veins of the marginal area fine dark, undidate line blackish. 
Hindwing darker brownish-grey than forewing. Mexico (City). 
24. Genus: Feralia Grt. 
Proboscis stunted, palpi short, eyes small, elliptic; the thorax is only clad with rough hair, feebly tufted 
in front and behind, the abdomen not being tufted, but laterally very hairy. Two North American species 
are known. 
F. jocosa Gn. (27 f) is a beautiful green species marked with black and white, with blackish-brown iocosa. 
hindwings. — ab. jocosides Strd. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) is almost entirely irrorated with black, except the marginal jocosides. 
area, a spot at the costal base, and the maculae remaining green. United States (New Hampshire, New York, 
New Jersey). -— furtiva Sm., established upon 1 $ from Ontario, seems to form a transition to jocosides , the ground furtiva. 
colour being smoky-brown, irrorated with a yellowish-brown, intensely marked with white. — The larva is 
diaphanous green with white dorsal and lateral stripes, below them yellowish crescentiform spots, upwards 
with a cherry-coloured border. It lives on Tsuga canadensis. 
F. major Sm. (27 f) is irrorated with brown on its greyish-white ground, in the central and subterminal major. 
areas quite brown with rather indistinct transverse stripes, the posterior stripe being removed near to the margin : 
the maculae are grey, the coniform macula flown together with the ring-macula, the reniform macula being 
strangulated; fringes brown speckled with white. Hindwing brownish with darker veins. United States (New 
Hampshire, Plattsburg, New York). 
25. Genus: Mamophaiia Grt. 
Distinguished from the preceding genus by the well-developed proboscis, the admixture of hair-shaped 
scales on the thorax, which exhibits tufts in front, in the centre and behind, the two latter being parted. Some 
pretty green species from Mexico and North America; the genus may at any rate be synonymous with Feralia. 
M. comstocki Grt. (27 f) has black markings on the light green ground, with intense black irroration comstocki. 
in the central area and behind it near the anal angle. The hindwing is also green, irrorated with black at the 
margin with traces of a subterminal band, in the $ darker. Canada, New York. 
M. Columbiana Sm. (27 f) is very similar to the preceding, but the markings are partly bordered with columbiana. 
white and the central area is less irrorated with black. Described from British Columbia. 
M. deceptiva McD. is extremely similar to columbiana , of a more robust structure, without the dark deceptiva. 
and light irroration before the undulate line, and the hindwing is of a much darker colour, quite brownish-black, 
feebly lighter at the anal angle. The colour is very similarly bluish-green as in the likewise very similar Feralia 
jocosa (27 f), with intense black, white-edged markings. The genital organ differs very much from the two 
species mentioned. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Vancouver (British Columbia). 
M. februalis Grt. (27 f) resembles columbiana , but all the black markings are finer, the transverse februalis. 
lines more coherent. Hindwing whitish with a slight, in the $ more intense greenish tinge; the $ forewing exhibits 
a more yellowish-green colour and more intense black markings. California. 
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