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wings; marginal space a little darker; fringe long, full. Fore wings slightly 

 rounded at the tips; diseal dot black, formed of elevated scales; exterior 

 border slightly convex, rather oblique. Length of the body, 6 lines; of the 

 wings, 16 lines, a. Georgia.'' 



PSAMMATODES Guenee. Plate 3, fig. 4. 



Eubolia (in part) Lederer, Verb. Zool. Bot. Vereins. Wien, 37, 1855. 

 Psammatodcs GueD., Phal., ii, 107, 1857. 



Male antennae simple, densely ciliated ; in the female simple. Head and 

 palpi much as in Phasiane ; palpi short and stout, as in Phasiane, but still 

 shorter, the second joint being broad at tip, and third joint small, short, and 

 depressed. Fore wings much as in Phasiane, but the costa is not quite so 

 straight; the apex is more rounded, less produced, and the outer edge is more 

 convex. The hind wings are much as in Phasiane, being somewhat square, 

 a little angulated at the apex and again on the first median venule. The 

 venation differs from that of Phasiane in the subcostal cell being longer, in 

 the costal vein nearly touching but not uniting with the subcostal. The two 

 subcostal venules arise as in Phasiane, but are shorter and directed at a greater 

 angle to the costa; the lower diseal venule is more oblique and curved than 

 in Phasiane, and the disposition of the two diseal veins is more like Semi- 

 othisa than Phasiane. The form of the abdomen, which is broad at the tip, 

 is as in Phasiane (male legs wanting, but Guenee states that the hind legs 

 are not swollen). Female legs as in Phasiane. 



The above description applies to our single species, which belongs to 

 GueneVs second section of the genus. This genus was founded by him on 

 six species: one from Hayti, one from Catalonia, two from Syria, and one 

 from Brazil, besides P. eremiata. Guene'e remarks that the male antennae 

 are almost always furnished with long branches, while the legs are not 

 swollen. 



It is very near Phasiane, and is distinguished from it by the less pro- 

 duced fore wings, the rather squarer hind wings, and the venation. The 

 markings are much as in Phasiane, it having three parallel lines, the outer a 

 little sinuous; but it differs in having two well-marked parallel lines on the 

 hind wings. The larva is unknown. 



