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Acidalia? albifera Walk., List, xxxv, Supp]., 1C25, 1 H G < J . — "■Female. 

 White. Palpi porrect, slender, no! extending beyond the head. Antennae 

 and legs slender. Abdomen shorter than the interior border of the hind 

 wings. Legs slender. Wings semihyaline, rather broad, with four indistinct 

 zigzag interrupted pale ochreous lines. Fore wings slightly acute ; exterior 

 border convex, moderately oblique. Hind wings with the exterior border 

 very slightly angular in the middle. Length of the body 2£ lines; of 

 the wings !> lines. North America." 



Macaria Jidoniaria Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxxv, 1654, 1866 — 

 "Male. Cinereous, thickly brown-speckled. Palpi blackish, porrect, stout, 

 extending rather beyond the head ; third joint very minute. Antennas 

 broadly pectinated, except at the tips. Abdomen as long as the interior 

 border of the hind wings. Hind tibiae hardly dilated, with four short spurs. 

 Wings with a broad blackish band near the base, and with a postmedial 

 undulating blackish line; a blackish middle dot; fringe alternately blackish 

 and cinereous. Fore wings hardly acute; two blackish more or less con- 

 nected sometimes ferruginous-varied patches between the postmedial line 

 and the exterior border, which is convex and moderately oblique. Hind 

 wings with the exterior border hardly angular in the middle. 



"Length of the body 3i lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



"((,/>. North America. From Mr. Carter's collection." 



Acidalia ferruminaria Zeller, Verb. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wien, 478, 1872. — 

 "Pedibus posticis £ mancis 9 4 calcaratis; alis rufescenti-ochraceis vel 

 ochraceo-rufescentibus, anterioribus fascia media nigricanti strigaque punc- 

 torum majusculorum dentata nigra per posteriores continuata. £ 9 . 



"Pie mehr noch als bei Straminata etc. verkiimmerten £ Hinterbeiue 

 beweisen, dass diess eine echte Acidalia ist, der sich aher, wenn man diesen 

 Umstand und die Farbung beriicksichtigt, in der Gesellschaft der europa- 

 ischen Arten kaum eiu passender Platz anweisen lasst. 



"Grosse kaum wie Muricata. Korper rothlich ochergelb oder ocher- 

 gelbrothlich. Gesicht etwas gebraunt. Taster kurz, spitz, rothlichgelb. 

 Fiihler rothlichgelb, beim J durch feine, braune, behaarte Kammziihne 

 doppell gefiedert. Hinterleibssegmente am Anfange mehr oder weniger 

 brauustaubig. Heine rothlichgelb; die & Hinterbeine ganz verkiimmert, 

 klein und blassgelblich ; die Schiene cin weuig langer als der Schenkel, 



