OF WASHINGTON. 



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spot that touches the outer line; outer line strongly excurved at the 

 end of the cell, undulate, gray-brown, edged with white on each side, 

 the white forming a pair of oblique dashes on the costa, followed by a 

 row of four similar dashes without any continuing lines, the last one 

 being nearly at the subterminal line; subterminal space brownish gray 

 filled; subterminal line whitish, undulate, most strongly produced op- 

 posite the cell ; terminal space pale gray, not strongly contrasting with 

 the subterminal line; a terminal brown line which expands between the 

 veins and forms above vein I and at the apex of the wing a small 

 brown-black speck; fringe brownish, interlined with white at the base. 

 Hind wing white, lightly gray powdered, showing a small, faint, darker 

 discal dot; at the outer margin at the termination of the submedian fold 

 a triangular brown-black speck accompanied by a white dash ; a ter- 

 minal brown line; fringe pale. Body parts whitish gray, irrorate with 

 brown. Expanse, 20-24 mm. 



Seven specimens, San Diego, Cal. (G. H. Field), Grapevine, 

 June 29; Grapta Camp, June 29, 1907; Morena, July 4; South 

 Arizona, August 1-15 (O. C. Poling) ; Kerrville, Tex., June, 

 1906, and October, 1904 (H. Lacy). 



Type. No. 11696, U. S. National Museum. 



I have described this genus in the Lithosiinae as it falls there 

 by Sir Geo. Hampson's tables, but it may possibly be found 

 to be better placed in the Noctuidse, subfamily Erastriinas, some 

 species of which have vein 8 of the hind wings anastomosing 

 with the subcostal to nearly the middle of the cell. I am 

 unable, however, to detect ocelli in the present form, whereas 

 they are present in the Erastriinae. 



Family LIPARID^. 

 Animomyia morta, n. gen. and sp. 



Form slender, wings thin and rounded; 

 antennae of the male bipectinate, with 

 very long branches running to the tip ; 

 eyes large, front rounded, not prominent; 

 palpi slender, porrect, well exceeding the 

 front, smoothly ^scaled ; tongue obsolete ; 

 hind tibiae with two pairs of rather long 

 spurs, the legs moderate; venation as in 

 the accompanying figure (fig. 9) ; vein 

 12 anastomosing with ir, u and 10, and 

 10 with the stalk of 7-9; vein 5 aris- 

 ing slightly below the middle of the 

 disco-cellulars ; hind wing with vein 5 

 obsolete, only one internal vein. 



FIG. g. Animomyia morta: 

 Venation of front and hind 

 wings. 



