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the forewings dark brown, with some reddish ochreous intermixed, 

 especially about the base of the hind margin, which is paler than the 

 remainder of the basal portion of the wing ; in the basal costal part of 

 the wing are two small dark brown tufts, which, from their obscurity, are 

 likely to escape observation ; near the posterior margin of the brown 

 basal portion are two large dark brown raised tufts, one of which is nearest 

 the costal and the other to the dorsal margin, the latter being the largest. 

 The middle third of the wing is pale ochreous, with a faint reddish tinge, 

 and is crossed a little obliquely by three almost confluent raised tufts of 

 the same hue, which, without very close observation, will be mistaken for 

 a continuous transverse row of raised scales, or for two tufts, one costal, 

 the other dorsal In this middle portion of the wing the extreme costa 

 is marked by numerous small dark brown spots, and the tuft is dark 

 brown on the costal margin, and there are one or two small dark brown 

 spots on the disc. Following this middle ochreous portion of the wing 

 is a rather narrow and irregular band of dark brown and reddish ochreous 

 scales, containing a large dark brown tuft on the dorsal margin, and some 

 raised scales near the costa. Immediately behind this band is a whitish 

 spot on the costal margin, while on the dorsal margin the brown band 

 extends back along the margin of the dorsal ciliae to the apex, and con 

 tains a row of minute dark brown slightly raised scales, extending around 

 the apex at the base of the ciliae, which are brownish gray. The under 

 surface of the body is whitish, and the legs and tarsi are dark brown with 

 white annulations. Al. ex. a little over half an inch. 



To the naked eye the anterior and apical parts of the fore wings are 

 brown, and the middle third stramineous. 



The neuration is that of Chauliodus, except that only four, instead of 

 five veins are given off from the cell to the hind margin, but the fifth is 

 indistinctly indicated. The tongue is scaled (naked in Chauliodus), the 

 second joint of the palpi is scarcely clavate and is shorter than the third, 

 and the tufts do not project over the margins of the wings as in Chau- 

 liodus, and the somewhat elongate basal joint of the antennae has no 

 hairs depending over the eyes as in that genus. The neuration and palpi 

 are very nearly, that of Berimede erransdla Chamb.; perhaps they ought 

 not to be separated generically, and, indeed, as to this species and the 

 other Texas species in this collection, I am not sure that they should be 

 included in Laverna, though if they are separated from it, several of the 

 recognized European species would with equal reason be also separated 

 from it, and more than one new genus would have to be created. In 



