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cate ; posteriorly it extends as a rather wide band along the costal margin 

 to the ciliae. Sides of the thorax purple brown. Anterior and middle 

 legs purple brown, with white tarsi ; hind legs whitish, except the apical 

 halves of the femora, which are purple brown. Al. ex. \% to /.t inch. 

 Basque Co. 



N^ERA, gen. 110V. 



Second joint of the palpi with a projecting tuft, more nearly like that 

 of a Plutella than that of any other genus known to me. When the tuft 

 is removed from the second joint, the palpi resemble those of a Laverna, 

 for which I at first mistook it, and the deception is the more readily 

 believed because of the tufts of raised scales on the wings. The form 

 and neuration of the hind wings is exactly that of Cleodora cyiisella, as 

 figured in Ins. Brit, v. j, while the fore wings, though a little narrower 

 than those of Gelechia rufescens loc. cit., have very nearly the same 

 neuration. The antennae are more than half as long as the fore wings, 

 with the basal joint short and hardly larger than the stalk, which tapers 

 from the middle to the tip. The palpi are somewhat recurved, and long 

 enough to reach the vertex, with the terminal joint a little fusiform, with 

 the tip blunt. The head resembles that of a true Laverna, but the face 

 is not so full. 



N. fusco-cristatella. N. sp. 



Head and face white; second joint of the palpi and the tuft more or 

 less externally marked with dark brown, and the third joint with two 

 brown annulations, one narrow and indistinct about the middle, and a 

 wide one before the apex. The face is marked a little with brown about 

 the base of the antennae, which are white, annulate with brown, and the 

 sinal basal joint has two distinct brown annulations, one about its base, 

 the other before its apex. The upper surface of the thorax and fore wings 

 is ash gray, sometimes nearly white, and sometimes suffused with ochreous 

 and brown, and when the thorax and base of the wings are not so 

 suffused, then the white passes gradually into the gray or ochreous brown, 

 deepening gradually to the apex. To the naked eye the greater number 

 of individuals appear to have the thorax and basal fourth and the apical 

 third of the fore wings ochreous or reddish brown, while the middle por- 

 tion of the wings is white or yellowish white. There are on the fore 

 wings four brown spots, the first placed on the base of the costa, with the 

 others following in a line departing a little from the extreme costa ;. 



