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insect expands on an average 30 millimeters. An examination of the 

 veins of the wing shows that vein 7 of the primaries is wanting, while vein 

 I is simple. On the hind wing the cell is closed or very nearly so. It 

 belongs thus to the P/iyddce, a sub-family of the Pyraiidce. The male 

 antennse are bent, a little at the base, the joints inconspicuous ; the 

 maxillary palpi in the same sex are not brush-like, and the hind wings are 

 8 and not 7 -veined. We may refer tlie moth, then, to the genus Nephop- 

 teryx. Veins 3, 4 and 5 spring nearly together from the outer extremity 

 of cell of the hind w'ings (though 5 seems to be nearly independent while 

 running close to 4) ; vein 2 is not far removed from 3. On the primaries 

 veins 4 and 5 spring from a common stalk, so tli^ we must refer the moth 

 to the sub-genus Dioryctria of Zeller. In color the moth is blackish 

 gray, shaded with reddish on the basal and terminal fields of the fore 

 wings. There are patches or lines of raised scales on the basal field and 

 on the anterior and darker portion of the medium space. The median 

 lines are prominent, consisting of double black lines enclosing pale 

 bands. The inner line at basal third is perpendicular, W-shaped or 

 dentate. The outer line at apical fourth is once more strongly indented 

 below costa. The black component lines do not seem to be more distinct 

 on one side than on the other of the pale included bands or spaces. The 

 median field is blackish, becoming pale towards the outer line ; it shows 

 a pale, sometimes whitish cellular spot, surmounted with raised scales. It 

 can be seen that these raised scales (easily lost in setting the insect) 

 accompany the median lines as well as forming the discal mark and the 

 linear patch on the basal field. The terminal edge of the wing is again 

 pale or ruddy before the terminal black line. The fringes are blackish. 

 The hind wings are pale yellowish white, shaded with fuscous on costal 

 region and more or less terminally before the blackish terminal black 

 line ; the fringes are dusky. Beneath the fore wings are blackish, marked 

 with pale on costa ; hind wings as on upper surface. Body blackish 

 gray, with often a reddish cast on thorax above and on the vertex. The 

 eyes are naked, the labial palpi long, ascending, with moderate terminal 

 joint. Tongue rather long. The gray abdomen is annulated with dirty 

 white, the legs are pale dotted. The species differs from the European 

 ahietella by the raised scale tufts on the wings, and Prof. P. C. Zeller, who has 

 kindly compared examples for me, declares it to be quite distinct from any 

 European species. The pupa seems to differ from that of ohieteUa by the 

 clypeal prominence, which appears entirely absent in the European 



