. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. MELAPOBPHYEIA. DrsOCNEMIS. 23 :and slightly curved, the area beyoud it yellow-brown; cilia dark brown mixed with ochreous. Hind wing yellow-brown ; the basal half snfFused with black to the curved medialline; diffused blackish. Fig. 9.—Melapoiyhyria immortua, S' \- postmedial and terminal bands. Underside yellow-brown; both wings with the basal area blackish, conjoined to the diffused discoidal spot and curved postmedial band. Hah. , Massachusetts, j^ewton, 1 S Grote Coll., IS^ew York, Colorado, New Mexic
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. MELAPOBPHYEIA. DrsOCNEMIS. 23 :and slightly curved, the area beyoud it yellow-brown; cilia dark brown mixed with ochreous. Hind wing yellow-brown ; the basal half snfFused with black to the curved medialline; diffused blackish. Fig. 9.—Melapoiyhyria immortua, S' \- postmedial and terminal bands. Underside yellow-brown; both wings with the basal area blackish, conjoined to the diffused discoidal spot and curved postmedial band. Hah. , Massachusetts, j^ewton, 1 S Grote Coll., IS^ew York, Colorado, New Mexico, Gullinas Canon (Coclcerell), 1 c?. Eivp. 28 millim. Genus DYSOCNEMIS. Type. Dt/socncmis, Grote, Eevised Check List, p. 34 (1890), nou descr. hcUadonna. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short, clothed with long hair; frous with rounded pi'ominence; head and thorax clothed with rough hair; eyes small, reniform ; antennas of male minutely ciliated ; fore tibia spined at sides ; mid and hind tibi« spined. Fore wing short and broad ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or -shortly stalked. A- Fore wing with the medial area prominently whitish. a. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform almost obsolete above 2}''''0Tupta. h. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform prominent belladonna. B. Fore wing with the medial area not prominently whitish. a. Hind wing with the whitish medial band not indented by the black discoidal spot horealis. h. Hind wing with the whitish medial band indented by the black discoidal spot oregonica. 23. Dysocnemis prorupta. Hclioihis23rorwptus, Grote, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. iv. p. 294(1873); Smith,Cat. jSToct. N. Am. p. 287. Melicleptria venusta, H. Edw. Pi'oc. Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 133 (1875). Head and thorax black-brown tinged with crimson ; p
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