. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 358 NOCTUTD^. then incurved, some pale points on costa beyond it; subterminal line indistinct, pale, augled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; traces of a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and terminal area tinged with rufous; the underside with the costal and terminal area tinged with rufous. Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1 J cotype; , Colo- rado (CocJcerell), 1 J . Exj). 40 millim, 1658. Nephelodes pectinata. NephelocJes pectinaiiis. Smith, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 221 (1000);


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 358 NOCTUTD^. then incurved, some pale points on costa beyond it; subterminal line indistinct, pale, augled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; traces of a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and terminal area tinged with rufous; the underside with the costal and terminal area tinged with rufous. Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1 J cotype; , Colo- rado (CocJcerell), 1 J . Exj). 40 millim, 1658. Nephelodes pectinata. NephelocJes pectinaiiis. Smith, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 221 (1000); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 161. J. Head and thorax chocolate-brown with a purplish tinge; fore tarsi fuscous with pale rings; abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing pale purplish rufous slightly irrorated with fuscous, the veins streaked with fuscous; the medial area deep chocolate from subcostal nervure to vein 1 ; traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique waved antemedial line ; orbi- cular and reniform moderate, pale, the former somewhat elliptical; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then. Fig. 93.—Nephelodes pecfinaia, c?. i-. strongly incurved, some pale points on costa beyond it; subter- minal line formed of obscure sagittate rufous marks, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown with a reddish or purplish tinge; the ciliaochreous white ; the underside paleochreous thickly irrorated with rufous and the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; a dark discoidal spot. 2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing more tinged with purple, the last with the medial area concolorous. Hab. Canada, Vancouver I. (J. J. Walker, Mathcw, Cronq^ton), 4 c? , 1 $ . ^>J'. 42-50 millim. Skct. III. {Nephelodes). Antennsu of male bipectinate, with short branches with long bristle at extremity. 1659. Nephelodes emmedonia. Noctna emmedonia. Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 92, pi. 247, D (177


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