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Legs slender ; hind tibiae incrassated ; hind tarsi short. Wings broad, thickly 

 and minutely ochraceous-speckled ; three ochraceous zigzag lines, the third 

 postmedial ; marginal points brown, very minute. Fore wings slightly acute ; 

 exterior border slightly convex and oblique. Length of the body 5 lines; 

 of the wings 12 lines. North America." 



Acidalia sobria Walk., List, xxxv, 1624, 1866. — "Male. Pale cinereous. 

 Head black ; vertex white. Palpi porrect, black above, hardly extending 

 beyond the head. Antennae densely setulose. Thorax fawn-colour along the 

 dbre border. Abdomen with a rather large apical tuft, Hind tibiae incras- 

 sated; hind tarsi short. Wings broad, with seven slightly dentate cinereous 

 lines, of which the three last are most distinct ; a brown point on the disk. 

 Fore wings slightly acute ; exterior border slightly convex, moderately 

 oblique. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 11 lines. North 

 America." 



Acidalia favillif era Walk., List, xxxv, 1624, 1866 — "Male. Dark cine- 

 reous. Head blackish ; vertex dark cinereous. Palpi blackish, porrect, not 

 extending beyond the head. Antennae densely setose. Hind tibiae not 

 incrassated. Wings rather narrow, minutely black-speckled, with four lines; 

 first line blackish, diffuse, undulating; second black, dentate, interrupted 

 between the teeth; third and fourth cinereous, zigzag; marginal festoon 

 brownish ; a black antemedial point in the disk. Fore wings slightly acute ; 

 exterior border slightly convex, rather oblique. Length of the body 2J lines; 

 of the wings 8 lines. North America." 



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Acidalia repletaria Walk., List, xxxv, ]624, 1866. — "Male. Dark cine- 

 reous Head black, except the vertex. Palpi porrect, black above, not 

 extending beyond the head. Antennae densely setose. Abdomen brown, 

 cinereous at the base and at the tip; a cinereous band in the hind border of 

 each segment. Hind tibia? slender; hind tarsi long. Wings brown-speckled, 

 rather narrow, with five brown lines; first line near the base, incomplete ; 

 second and fourth slightly undulating, rather broad; third composed of 

 points; fifth paler, indistinct ; marginal points brown, transversely elongated. 

 Fore wings hardly acute; exterior border slightly convex, rather oblique. 

 Length of the body 2.\ lines; of the wings 7 lines. North America." 



