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GEcetina apicalis, n. sp. (PL VIII, fig. 2). 



Yellowish, clothed with yellowish hair; palpi with darker hair; 

 antennae annulate with black; abdomen pale above, almost black be 

 neath; legs pale yellowish. Wings very sparsely clothed with very 

 fine black and yellow hairs ; the anastomoses broadly margined with 

 black, the posterior one running obliquely backward; membrane toward 

 apex is blackish; hind wings more hyaline, with a long black fringe on 

 posterior margin, especially heavy near base. Maxillary palpi heavy, 

 and densely haired. Fore wings nearly acute at apex, both forks barely 

 reaching back of the anastomosis ; in hind wings the second fork starts 

 from the discal cell, the first extending back a considerable distance on 

 the cell. 



Expanse, 18 mm. 



One specimen from Brownsville, Tex., June (Snow). 



CEcetina persimilis, n. sp. 



In appearance this species is very like unto (E. incerta and (E. parvula, 

 and about intermediate in size, or as large as a small (E. incerta. The 

 wings are clothed with long gray hairs, and the anastomosis is dark brown. 

 It belongs, however, to the other section of the genus ; having in the 

 hind wings the cross-vein connecting fork i to fork 3; so it is more 

 allied to (E. fumosa. It differs, however, from that species in smaller 

 size, lack of patches of black hair on the wings, and in that the cross- 

 vein closing the discal cell is as long as the next cross-vein beyond it 

 (plainly shorter in (E. fumosa}. 



Specimens from High Island, Maryland, and from Glen- 

 carlyn, Va., in June. 



The genus CEcetina differs from the European CEcetis (type 

 ochracea) in having much narrower hind wings, and in that the 

 cross-vein at end of discal cell of fore-wing is considerably be 

 yond the other cross-veins. The European (E. lacustris, and 

 probably other species, belongs to CEcetina. The species of 

 CEcetina may be arranged in two sections, according to position 

 of the cross-vein in the hind wings. In one section the cross-vein 

 connects forks I and 3, while in the second section the cross- 

 vein ends in the median before the origin of fork 3. The first 

 section includes CE. fumosa, auara, apicalis, and persimilis; the 

 second section contains incerta, flavida, guttata, ftoridana, in- 

 ornata, parvula, and flaueolata. 



Setodina, n. gen. 



A leptocerid near Setodes, but the last joint of the maxillary palpi 

 is short, although a little curved; the spurs are 0-2-2; forks I and 3 



