509 



docs not extend quite so far behind the wings. Body and wings whitish- 

 ochreous. Fore wings thickly speckled with coffee-brown scales; inner line 

 curved and angulated rather more distinctly than in vinulentaria, forming a 

 distinct tooth on the median vein. Outer line (like the inner, coffee-colored) 

 is more curved, especially on the hind edge, than in vinulentaria, and is dis- 

 tinctly duplicated in (he middle. The wing beyond is uniform coffee- (with 

 milk-) color, and inclosing an oblique, long, narrow, apical, whitish spot, and 

 a large, long, oval spot in the middle of the wing interrupted by the first and 

 second veins, which are brown. Hind wings with a basal straight shade; 

 outer line very distinct, duplicated, inclosing an unusually large, narrow, oval 

 area: beyond not darker than the rest of the wing. Fringe dark, coffee- 

 colored. Beneath, pale whitish-ochreous, with the lines clearly reproduced 

 as above, discal dots more clear than above, outer edge of fore wings scarcely 

 darker than within, on the hind wings concolorous with the rest of the wing. 

 Fringe coffee-colored. 



Hind wings as in vinulentaria, but considerably less dentate. 



Length of body, <?, 0.50-0.63; of fore wing, <J , 0.55-0.72; expanse of 

 wings, 1.15-1.60 inches. 



Philadelphia (Grote, Ent. Soc.) ; Lawrence, Kans. (Snow) ; Colorado 

 Springs, Colo., July 4(Mead) ; Texas, May 4, July 10-11 (Belfrage). 



While there is no doubt but that this species is Walker's madusaria 

 and oponearia, I think that from Walker's description it is probably his 

 astylusaria also, as modusaria is a widely-diffused, common, and variable species. 

 It is evidently double-brooded in Texas. 



Endropia amcenaria Guenee. Plate 12, fig. 17. 



Endropia amccnaria Giien., Pbal., i, 124, pi. 3, fig. 8, 1857. 



Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mils., xx, 150, 1860. 

 Endropia arefaetaria Grote and Rob. !!!, Ami. Lye. Nat. Hist., viii, pi. 15 A, fig. 7, $ , 1867. 



2 $ and 1 9. — Brighter ochreous than any other species known to me, 

 and at once distinguished by the two large broad teeth on the apical half of the 

 hind wings, the incision between being unusually deep. Fore wings with an 

 acute subfalcate apex ; outer edge of the hind wings bent but not scalloped, 

 with two large prominent, though not very acute, teeth, straight behind the 

 middle. Fore wings and body yellow-ochreou's, speckled with heavy black 

 strigas. Palpi tipped with black beneath, and antennae conspicuously speckled 

 above. Fore wings with the inner line curved and angulated ; this and the 



