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discal point black, the latter large and very distinct. Fore wings rectangular 

 at the tips: hind part of the exterior border rather oblique. 



"Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 8 lines. 



"rt East Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq." 



Acid/ilia magniferaria Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus , xxiii, 784, 1861. — 

 "Allied to the 17th European group. Female Cinereous. Head brown 

 in front. Antennae and legs slender. Wings elongate, thickly blackish- 

 speckled; lines dark cinereous ; interior line obsolete; middle line distinct, 

 rather broad, very slightly undulating; exterior line slight, denticulated; 

 sub marginal line rather broad; marginal dots dark cinereous ; discal point 

 black, large. Fore wings acute; exterior border very oblique. 



"Length of the body 3 lines; of wings 8 lines. 



"a. East Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq." 



Acidalia basipunctaria Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxiii, 785, 1861. — 

 "Allied to the 17th European group. Female. Very pale cinereous, with a 

 slight rosy tinge. Palpi porrect, obtuse ; third joint almost obsolete. Wings 

 elongate, hardly speckled; submarginal line blackish cinereous, diffuse, dentate, 

 obsolete toward the costaof the fore wings; the other lines obsolete; marginal 

 points and discal points black; the former large, very distinct; fringe very 

 long. Fore wings with a black basal point, and with blackish marks along 

 the costa. 



" Length of the body 2 lines; of the wings 6 lines. 



"«, h. East Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq." 



Acidalia retractaria Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mas., xxiii, 785, 1861. — 

 "Allied to the 17th European group. Male and Female. Cinereous. Head 

 blackish in front. Antennae stout, pubescent in the male. Abdomen of the 

 male with a large apical tuft. Hind tibiae not incrassated, with two long 

 apical spurs. Wings elongate, indistinctly speckled, slightly tinged with 

 ferruginous about the lines; interior and exterior lines black, zigzag, the 

 former indistinct, except toward the interior border of the hind wings; sub- 

 marginal and marginal lines dark cinereous, undulating, parallel; marginal 

 points ferruginous, rather large; discal point black. Fore wings slightly 

 rounded at the tips. 



"Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 8 lines. 



"a—c. East Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq 



