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the fore-wings is small and triangular, the posterior one likewise small 

 and oval ; interveinular spaces of the apical patch golden ; hind-wings 

 with very narrow black border, fringes throughout blackish ; beneath hind- 

 wings as above, fore-wings yellow to the discal spot, with interveinular 

 spaces beyond of the same hue. Fore-coxse black, with pale scales, 

 especially on lateral edges ; femora black, with more or less pale ; tibi?e 

 black, with the spines and a few scales at tip sordid white ; tarsi blackish, 

 ringed with dull white ; abdominal tufts slight, concolorous, with a few 

 yellow points at base laterally. 



Expanse, i8 mm.; length, 9 mm. 



I have referred the moth to Alhuna rather than ^geria for the 

 following reasons : i, "the head is narrower than the thorax, which is 

 not produced far beyond the base of the wings ;" 2, " the antennae are 

 comparatively short," not reaching to the discal spot ; 3, the legs are 

 relatively short, on the other hand the tibite are not more than usually 

 clothed with scales ; 4, ''the markings of the wings are heavy, the space 

 between the submedian nervure and the inner margin is clothed ^^ith 

 scales," except a minute clear space proximate of the clear triangle, and 

 within the submedian ; 5, the abdomen is fusiform without the apical brush. 



The finding of the male may make the generic reference more certain. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



List of Lepidoptera of Boreal America, by John B. Smith, Sc. D., 

 etc., Philadelphia, American Entomological Society, 1891. 



Prof. Smith divides the Lepidoptera into seven suborders : — (i) The 

 Rhopalocera, containing four families ; (2) the Heterocera, containing 

 twenty-three families, and comprising the Sphingidfe, yEgeriadse, 

 Thyridee, Zygaenidse and Bombyces of Grote's list ; (3) the Noctuina, 

 containing three families ; (4) the Geometrina, containing the single 

 family Geometridae, divided into nine subfamilies ; (5) the Pyralidina, 

 containing seven families ; (6) the Tortricina, containing three families: 

 (7) the Tineina, containing twenty families. Prof Smith has been 

 assisted by Dr. Skinner in the Rhopalocera, by Dr. Hulst in the 

 Geometrina and Pyralidina, by Prof. Fernald in the Pyralidina and 

 Tortricina, while the entire list of the Tineina is by Dr. Riley. The list 

 contains 6020 numbered species, which includes the unidentified species 

 described by Walker (243 in number) and other authors (in all, 79 names). 



