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side of t lie wings. All (lie markings are often wanting in cabinet-specimens, 

 and it varies in much the same way as the species of Deilinia. 1 have iden- 

 tified tliis species by a drawing made from Mr. Walker's type in the British 



Museum. 



STEGANIA Guene'e. Plate 3, fig. 12. 



Anagoga Hiibn. (in part), Verz., 294, 1818. 



Lomographa Hiibn. (in part), Verz., 311, 1818. 



Fidonia Tieits. (in part), Scbni. Eur., vi (i), 262, 1827. 



Bradyepeles Stepb. (in part), Nomonrl. Br. Ins., 44, 1S29; "Cat., ii, 128, 1829". 



Cabera Boisd. (in part), Gen. Ind., 218, 1840. 



Stegauia Gnen., MS. in Dnponchel's Cat., 270, 1844. 



ll.-Scb., Sehm. Eur., iii, 70, 1847. 



Stepb., Cat. Br. Lep., 299, 18. r .0. 

 Terpnomicta Lederer,* Verb. Dot. Zool. Ges. Wien, 199, 1853. 

 Slegania Guen., Pbal., ii, 43, 1S.">7. 



Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mua., xxiii, 18C1. 



Head with full eyes, and front not very wide. Palpi long and large, 

 extending one-third their length beyond the front; third joint rather long and 

 large, obtuse at tip. Male antennae well pectinated. Fore wings: costa 

 straight, arched toward the apex, which is subfalcate; outer edge oblique, 

 much less convex than in the other genera of this subfamily. Hind wings 

 much as in Acidalia, being square, with a well-marked angle in the median 

 edge, the apex being short and much rounded. Venation : the costal vein 

 joins the first subcostal by a very short transverse vein. There is no sub- 

 costal areole; the first subcostal venule runs parallel with the subcostal main 

 vein until it reaches the origin of the, fourth venule (what is usually the fifth, 

 for there are but five subcostal venules), where it diverges to the costal edge. 

 The posterior discal venule is v-shaped, and sends a fold inward. Hind 

 legs long and slender; tibiae slender; tarsi slender, two-thirds as long as the 

 tibiae. Coloration: white in our American species, with deep-ochreous costal 

 spots and broken lines. 



This genus combines the characters of the Caberince and AcidalintE, 

 approaching the latter in the slightly subfalcate fore wings and angular hind 

 wings and the general points in venation, while it differs from the others of 

 its group in the more heavily-pectinated antenna?, the large palpi extending 

 farther beyond the front than usual, and the absence of one of the anterior 

 subcostal venules. 



Our S. pustularia is quite near the European S. dilectaria, which is 

 ochreous, lined and dusted with brown. 



* Lederer dropped GuenoVs name Sttgavia because SUgana vyas previously used for a genus of 

 l.'iptera ; but tbis is scarcely a sufficient reason. 



