30 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Tribe Ingiirini. 



The male antennae are simple at tip. An American form coming to 

 our fauna probably from the south. The form resembles the preceding 

 tribe, but the wings are entire. The species of the single genus Ingura 

 are small moths, resembling the species of Abrostola in ornamentation, 

 except, perhaps, ocu/atrix, which is a pretty, singularly marked moth. 



Tribe Ajiomiini. 



Thinly or closely scaled untufted forms, with rather broad and pointed 

 wings and slimy vestiture, the larvae half loopers. Anomis has uneven 

 margins to the primaries. Aletia (the "cotton worm") has them even, 

 somewhat sickle-shaped. Ptercetholix and Chytoryza have peculiar clear 

 spots and structure of the fore-wings. The tribe is American, and comes 

 to our fauna from the south. 



Tribe Litoprosopini. 



Larger species with Plusia-like palpi, untufted, with brown wings, 

 having curious ocellate markings and metallic points on secondaries. 

 Hatney from Cuba, confligens from the west C03^s\.,futilis from Florida, all 

 belonging to Litoprosopiis, and are tropical American forms intruding 

 into our territory in the south. 



Tribe Calpini. 



The fore-wings are wide, with pointed apices, full external margin, a 

 tooth on inner margin. Eyes naked, lashed. Palpi prominent, hirsute 

 to the tips, terminating bluntly as if cut off. A single genus and species 

 in Europe, Calpe capuci?ia, has apparently an American representative in 

 C. canade?isis Beth. I have not been able to study other genera, indi- 

 cated by Guenee and figured by various writers. This tribe would seem 

 to be tropical in its origin. The genus Calpe probably belonged to the 

 tertiary circumpolar fauna, and is of so pronounced a form that the 

 American and European descendants have retained a decided resembl- 

 ance. I do not know that Canadensis has been bred or carefully com- 

 pared with its European ally, but 1 was able to recognize type specimens 

 among Mr. Walker's synonyms and somewhat confusing generic references 

 in this family. Full and careful comparisons are needed in many cases 

 to decide whether the species are representative or identical. 



