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between some taken in our own country; there arc not even any climatic or 

 racial differences thai 1 can perceive. It is our most common species, and 

 is found in boreal and middle Europe, ll may be known by the simply 

 pubescent antennae, its pale color, the outer dentate line, that on the fore 

 wing less sinuous than the corresponding line in C. vmbrosaria. 



The European Tephrosia consortaria is a true Cymatophora, and larger 

 than, but closely allied to, crepuscularia. 



(vmatophora psilogrammaria Packard. Plate 11, fig. 1G. 



Boarmia psilogrammaria Zeller!!!, Vi-ih. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wien., xxii, 1872. 



3 <? and 6 9. — This pretty, diminutive species is whitish-ash in color, 

 and has long, narrow fore wings, with the apex much rounded, though some- 

 what produced, and with the outer edge nearly as long as the inner. Male 

 antennae heavily pectinated. Fore wings with three distinct, scalloped, 

 black hair-lines, and two diffuse, faint lines beyond, common to both pairs 

 of wings; midway between the. insertion of the wing and the basal line is a 

 black costal spot ; basal line very oblique, arising near the middle of the 

 cost a and ending at the same distance from the insertion of the wing as the 

 first costal spot; the line is jagged, with a large angle below the costa ; 

 beyond the discal dots are two parallel, scalloped, black hair-lines, curved 

 outward opposite the discal dot, and still beyond are two smoky, diffuse, 

 wavy bands; the marginal row of black, elongated dots is very distinct. 

 Hind wings quite clear, with a line running as far as the discal dot, and, 

 beyond, two black lines, the outer the most distinct; beyond are two 

 obscure, smoky lines, as in the fore wings ; the dots on the margin are round, 

 and remote from each other; beneath, the wing is clear and pale, with the 

 discal dots distinct, and with traces particularly of the outer line, on both 

 wings. The fore legs are blackish. 



Length of body, $, 0.30, 9, 0.30; of fore wings, <t , 0.40, 9, 0.45; 

 expanse of wings, 0.85-0.95 inch. 



Texas, May 7-11 (Belfrage). 



This appears to he a common species in Texas, but has not yet occurred 

 elsewhere. Jt may he recognized by its small size, (lie clear, whitish wings, 

 and the scalloped, tine, clear, dark lines. 1 have examined Professor Zeller's 

 type in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



