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submedian fold at its outer extremity. Fringes white notched with black 

 opposite the median nervules. , Body gray ; tegulse lined within with 

 black. Beneath white with broad black margin to the wings, discontinued 

 below on secondaries ; a black discal streak on fore wings. Palpi gray ; 

 second joint marked outwardly with fuscous. 



Expanse 48 m. m. Aug. 6, Belfrage ; No. 646, Bosque Co., Texas. 

 Quite distinct in ornamentation and color from any species known to me. 



ON AN AMERICAN SPECIES OF LOPHOPTERYX. 



BY LEON F. HARVEY, M. D., BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Among the more interesting European Ptilodontid genera not yet 

 recognized as American (the species referred by Walker to Stauropus 

 do not, according to Grote, belong to that genus) is Stephens' genus 

 LopJiopteryx, as restricted by Lederer. To this I would refer a species 

 found by Mr. C. A. Blake in New Jersey, near Philadelphia, and which I 

 do not find elsewhere described. 



Lophopteryx americana, n. s. 



^ . Eyes hairy ; antennae short, with long pencils of bristly haij 

 from each joint. Primaries with uneven external margin. Bright brown 

 in color, allied to camdina, but less rusty or reddish. Nervules inter- 

 ruptedly marked in very dark brown. Transverse anterior line single, 

 forming two approximate obtuse teeth on the cell, dentate below median 

 vein. Transverse posterior line double, obliterate, with included paler 

 shade which traverses the wing obliquely, marked on costal region ; a 

 series of ante-apical pale dots ; a purplish brown subterminal shade. 

 Median space diffused, shaded with purplish brown, more apparently so 

 before the outer line and inferiorly where the median lines approximate ; 

 a terminal brown line, interrupted on the veins, opposite to the extremities 

 of which the exserted fringe is dark brown. Hind wings ochrey, with 

 concolorous fringes becoming brown toward anal angle ; a median pale 

 shade, which intersects at internal margin a blackish patch. Beneath 

 yellowish immaculate, the dots on costa of primaries before apices 



