LYCOMORPHA. 289 



arise on a common stalk, the latter angulated in the middle and 

 receiving the discal fold. The median vein is 4-brauched, the 

 posterior arising at a point opposite the middle of the space be- 

 tween the first and second marginal nervules. Hind wings with- 

 out costal vein. Subcostal bifid near the tip, the lower branch 

 giving rise to an oblique discal. Median vein 3-branched, the 

 superior nervule receiving the discal fold. 



Head smooth, free, without ocelli. Face rounded. Eyes mode- 

 rate. Antennas a little shorter than the body, biserrated or very 

 minutely pectinated. Palpi short, little exceeding the clypeus, 

 cyliudric, porrected ; the basal joint long, nearly equal to the front ; 

 the middle and terminal joints equal, very short and ovate. Tongue 

 a little longer than the thorax beneath. 



Body slender, nearly cylindrical, not metallic. Patagia scale- 

 like. Hind wings equal in length to the body. Legs rather 

 slender; fore tibiae with a short concealed tibial spur; hind tibia? 

 with one middle spur and two moderate apical spurs. 



1. L. pholus Fabr. Sp. Ins. II, 166, 49. 



Bluish-black. The tegulse and the basal fourth of the wings 

 luteous. 



Nova Scotia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania. 



CLEMENS. 



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2. L. dimidiata Herr.-Schaeff. Pyromorpha dimidiata Lep. Ex. Sp. Nov. 



Ser. I, f. 222. 



Black. Fore wings yellow at the base. [Is it distinct from Z. 

 pholus ?] 

 Georgia. 



FAM. III. MELAMERIDAE. 



This family has much affinity to the GlaucQ2rididae and 

 also to the Pyralites. The wings are very generally more 

 or less black, occasionally with a metallic hue, very fre- 

 quently adorned with bright colors or partly limpid. 

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