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6. Genus: Dysociiemis Grt. 
Separated from the other anartoid genera by the absence of any horny sting at the end of the anterior 
tibiae which are laterally spined. The short palpi are more upturned than in Melaporphyria. Type: D. bella¬ 
donna Edw. 
B. prorupta Grt. (= venusta Edw., fimbria Williams) (47 k). The blackish-brown forewing is suffused prorupta. 
with carmine and exhibits a broad white median area which is powdered with blackish-brown or red-brown, 
enclosing a small somewhat darker cell-end spot which is coherent with a costal-marginal spot; the white area 
pointedly projects towards the margin on the lower radial branch. The black hindwing shows a very large 
white median spot. Oregon, California. 
D. belladonna Edw. (47 k) is somewhat similar, but easily discernible by large blackish-brown ring- belladonna. 
maculae and reniform maculae; the white median area is of a triangular shape and extends neither to 
the costal margin nor to the hind-margin, behind the whitish undulate line small brown triangular marginal 
spots are visible. Hindwing black with a large white discal spot. Utah. 
D. borealis Harnps. (47 k) has blackish-brown forewings without the white band of belladonna, the borealis. 
median area is only somewhat lighter, but not distinctly defined, enclosing the small black reniform macula. 
Hindwing as in the preceding species, the white spot slightly tinged with yellowish. Canada. 
D. oregonica Edw. (47 k). Forewing black powdered with olive, the two similarly coloured maculae oregonica. 
in the light yellowish-white median area; undulate line indistinctly lighter. Hindwing black with a yellowish- 
white spot enclosing a large black discal spot; in the centre of the margin spotted yellowish. From Oregon 
and Washington to Colorado and California. 
7. Genus: liicitii Grt. 
Enumerated by Hampson as ,,Pyrocleptria“ . Only one small variable species of the same structure as 
the preceding ones, but the anterior tibiae are short and broad, laterally spined with a long bent horny sting 
inside, a short one outside at the end. In the thoracal hair broad scales are intermixed. Type : I. aurantiaca Edw. 
1. aurantiaca Edw. (= calif ornica Harnps.) (47 k) has red-brown fore wings mixed with ochreous, with aurantiaca. 
light transverse lines bordered with blackish, and with black maculae powdered with red-brown, between and 
behind them there are small ochreous-yellowish spots; before the grey undulate line with a brownish subterminal 
band. Hinclwing orange with a black discal spot and marginal band. California. — f. tenuimargo B. <£■ McD. (47 k) tenuimar- 
is the race from Arizona with much lighter forewings showing an ochreous-yellowish median and marginal 9°- 
area, with a very narrow marginal band of the hindwing on which the discal spot is also much smaller. 
8. Genus: Psendotamila Sm. 
Very closely allied to Incita, but with a small tuft on the metathorax and without a horny plate below 
the round frontal projection, which is present in Incita. Three species have been described so far. Type: P. 
vacciniae Edw. 
P. vacciniae Edw. (= vanella Sm.) (47 1). Forewing black intermixed with red-brown or claret- vacciniae. 
coloured and white scales, with a white median area powdered with grey and red-brown, the dark reniform 
macula situate therein is connected with a costal-marginal spot; the anterior transverse line is black, the posterior 
line white, bordered with brown; the undulate line is composed of small black and white sagittiform spots. 
Hindwing black with a white median band enclosing a large discal spot. Nevada, California. 
P. carminatra Sm. (47 1). Eorewing ochreous-yellowish, powdered with carmine, with a large brown carminatra. 
reniform macula in the somewhat lighter median area, and with smoke-brown indistinct transverse lines, behind 
the distal line somewhat lighter. Hind wing unicoloured black with white fringes. A small species from Colorado, 
at an altitude of 6000 ft. 
P. avemensis Dyar (47 1) has light ochreous-yellowish forewings, the basal area and a postmedian avemensis. 
band being bronze-brown, the median area being also somewhat powdered with bronze, with 2 straight black 
lines bordering on the reniform macula; transverse lines irregular, the posterior line broken up into dots. Hind¬ 
wing black. Manitoba. 
9. Genus: Meliothis Hbn. 
Enumerated by Hampson as ,,Chloridea WestwP Here begin the species with large round eyes. Proboscis 
developed, palpi obliquely rising, below hairy, frons with a roundish projection. Thoracal hairing intermixed 
with scales. The laterally spined anterior tibiae exhibit at the end a pair of slender horny stings. All are very 
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