415 



costa ami on the veins, with obscure lines connecting them, though in well- 

 preserved specimens the lines are clear and continuous, base of the wing dark. 

 Inner line well curved; second and third lines nearer together than in hirta- 

 rius, especially on the inner edge of the wing. Hall-way between the third line 

 and the outer edge of the wing is a fainter hand than the others, represented 

 by a costal square spot, and a, black spot on the inner angle. The fringe is 

 concolorous with the wing, being a little paler at the ends of the veins, but 

 not so distinctly checkered as in the European species. Hind wings with 

 three transverse diffuse bauds; when rubbed, they are represented by the 

 squarish spots on the inner edge, where the wing is more thickly scaled than 

 in the middle, the wing being more hyaline than in />'. hirtarius. Beneath, 

 paler than above; outer edge of the wings somewhat frosted; apex of both 

 wings whitish ; second and third lines reproduced, ending in two costal black 

 spot's. Hind wings with two faint lines and two costal spots. Legs and body 

 beneath very hairy, concolorous with the upper surface. 



Length of body, <$ , 0.7b, 9, 0.85; fore wing, <?, 0.85, ?, 1.00; expause 

 of wings, 1 55-2. 10 inches. 



Albany, N. Y., "April 8" (Meske). 



It may be known by the thin semi-transparent wings, pepper-and-salt 

 color, and three parallel, broad, diffuse, dark lines, and the hairy, long branches 

 of the antennse. 



PARAPHIA Guenee. Plate 4, fig. l!) ; plate 5, fig. 1. 



Paraphia Gueu., Phal., i, 271, is;,?. 



Walk., Li*r Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxi, 4-j::. 1860. 

 Amilapis Guen., Phal., ii. 62, 1857. 



Male antennae well pectinated. Palpi rather slender, projecting a little 

 beyond the front, which is rather narrow in the male, more so than in 

 Tephrosia. Fore wings with the costa moderately convex compared with 

 Tephrosia cognataria, for example ; the apex is subacute. Outer edge bent 

 in the middle, entire in the male, in the female distinctly serrate. Hind 

 wings squarish, with a prominent angle in the middle of the outer edge, 

 slightly dentate in the male, conspicuously so in the female. Venation: 

 costal vein free from the subcostal; first subcostal venule branched within 

 the middle, the lower branch not arising, as usual, from the main vein ; six 

 subcostal venules, where there are bul live in Tephrosia; the first and second 

 median venules co-originate, where in Tephrosia and Cymatophora they are 



