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beyond the front. Antennae moderately pectinated. Legs smooth, slender; 

 spurs rather short. Wings rather broad, minutely brown-speckled ; exterior 

 line blackish, oblique, zigzag; discal blackish, elongated. Fore wings hardly 

 acute; interior line blackish, zigzag; costa and exterior border very slightly 

 convex, the latter moderately oblique. Hind wings very little paler than the 

 fore wings, extending beyond the abdomen. Length of body, 5 lines ; of the 

 wings, 14 lines. Nova Scotia." 



"Var. /J. Head not luteous in front. Lines and discal marks of the wings 

 brown. Length of the body, 7 lines; of the wings, 18 lines." 



Aspilates strigularia Walk., List, xxvi, 1675, 1862. — "Male. Cinereous. 

 Palpi porrect, short, broad, extending a little beyond the head ; third joint 

 extremely minute. Antennas pubescent. Abdomen hardly extending beyond 

 the hind wings. Hind tibiae slightly incrassated, with four spurs, of which 

 the first pair are much longer than the apical pair. Wings transversely 

 brown-speckled; marginal points black. Fore wings hardly acute ; interior 

 and exterior lines blackish, oblique, the first straight, the second undulating; 

 space along the outer side of the exterior line partly and irregularly clouded 

 with brown ; discal mark brown ; exterior border straight, rather oblique. 

 Hind wings with some straight, indistinct, brownish lines. Length of the 

 body, 5-5J lines; of the wings, 13-14 lines. East Florida.'' 



Aspilates olenusaria Walk., List, xxvi, 1675, 1862.— "Jfafc. Luteous. 

 Head rosy in front. Antennas cinereous. Wings with an oblique, nearly 

 straight, purplish-rosy exterior line ; fringe purplish-rosy; under side bright 

 luteous, with transverse rosy speckles, and with two broad rosy bands. Fore 

 wings with the interior and middle lines purplish-rosy, indistinct. Hind 

 wings paler than the fore wings. Length of the body, 5^-6 lines ; of the 

 wings, 15-16 lines. East Florida. Georgia." 



CHLORASPILATES, gen. nov. 



Head, palpi, and antennae, and form of the body and legs as in Aspilates. 

 Antennae of the male heavily pectinated to just before the tip. Palpi very 

 large and broad at the end, extending far beyond the head, the third joint 

 being small and rounded. The wings arc small and narrow, somewhat as in 

 Lythria. Fore wings narrow, the costa less convex than in Lythria, while 

 the outer edge is much less oblique. The hind wings are a little longer and 



