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chrome, with a whitish patch near the base above the fold, one nearly oppo- 

 site, on the inner margin, and one about the middle of the wing, on the costa. 

 Near the tip of the wing is a rather indistinct, narrow, whitish band, becoming 

 somewhat diffuse on the inner margin, about the middle of the cilia ; extreme 

 apex of the wing whitish, mixed with scales of the general hue: cilia grayish 

 fulvous. Hind wings dark gray ; cilia fulvous gray. Abdomen pale orange 

 chrome, with a dark brownish stripe along the dorsum, varied with fulvous. 



PYRAL1DINA. Fam. HERMINID^E. 

 Epipaschia. 



Anterior wings with two approximated, subcosto-marginal nervules arising 

 near tb^e end of the disk, with a short nervulet to the costa, from near the tip 

 of the subcosto-apical nervule ; the origin of the post apical is midway between 

 the discal and marginal nervulet; the subcosto-inferior and discal have coinci- 

 dent origins. The discal is nearly circularly curved, and is continued to the 

 disco-central nervule which anastomoses by contact with the medio-superior. 

 Median three-branched. Submedian furcate at the base. In the posterior 

 wings the discal nervure is long, with a sweeping curve, and, as in the anterior 

 wings, is continued to the disco-central nervule, anastomosing by contact with 

 the medio-superior. 



Head with ocelli. Eyes round, rather large and salient. Maxillary palpi 

 short, scaly and porrected. Labial palpi smooth, recurved, but not exceeding 

 the vertex, cylindrical and pointed; third joint rather short, and indistinctly 

 marked. Tongue scaled at the base, and nearly as long as the thorax beneath. 

 Antennae with an arlicitlated appendage arising from the basal joint, throicn back- 

 wards, and as long as the thorax, and clothed with scales and spreading hairs at its 

 tip; the stalk is exterior to it, slender, its joints roughened with scales, and 

 finely ciliated beneath. 



E. supera tali s. Head yellowish. Labial palpi yellowish, dusted with 

 dark ochreous, with a dark brown spot at the base of the third joint. An- 

 tennas brownish, annulated with yellow, the antennal appendage yellow, dusted 

 with blackish brown, especially exteriorly. Fore wings pale yellowish, dusted 

 with dark brownish to an irregular dark brown line, crossing the nervules from 

 the costa to the inner margin, beyond which it is dull reddish brown. About 

 the middle of the costa is a blackish brown spot, a small one of the same hue 

 on the discal nervure; a minute one at the base, and the base of the fold, with 

 the inner margin at the base tinted with reddish brown. On the posterior 

 margin of the wing is a line of dark brown dots. Hind wings fuscous, with a 

 dark brown round spot near the exterior margin of the base, and a brownish 

 marginal line, with one of the same hue in the cilia. 



From Edward Norton, of Farmington, Conn. 



SPHINGINA. Fam. ^GERIID.E. 



Trochilium Scopoli. 



I regard this genus as synonymous with the ^Egeria of Dr. Harris; it in- 

 cludes, likewise, the group he has characterized by this name. 



Both wings transparent. Antennce little thickened at the tips. Abdomen sessile, 

 tufted at the tip. Hind tarsi very slender and smooth, as long as the tibice. 



T. A c er n i . Head and labial palpi deep reddish orange, the former white 

 in front of the eyes. Antennas bluish black, the basal joint reddish orange in 

 front. Thorax ochreous yellow, with the tegulse in front touched with pale 

 bluish black. Abdomen bluish black, varied with ochreous yellow; terminal 

 tuft deep reddish orange. Fore wings with the margins and median nervure 

 bluish black, dusted with yellowish ; a large discal, bluish black patch ; termi- 

 nal). 



