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lyptera. The dotted discal stigmata (ringed also in Libiirna) and smoky 

 pallid colors, are characteristic. 



The species have rostrate palpi, stretching forwards or but slightly in- 

 clined ; variable in length, reminding one of Crambus, and as the insects 

 are internal feeders in the larva state, as far as we know, the group is best 

 placed between the Gortynas and Nonagrians. They seem to me a dis- 

 tinct sub-family group, the body being slender, even in Scolecocampa 

 liburna, and long compared with wings, which are narrowest and most 

 pointed in Doryodes. The legs are slender and long, comparatively, and 

 unarmed. The structural features remind us of Chilo and the lower 

 Crambidce. The sub-family Scolecocampince is one of the most curious in 

 the Noctuidce, and hardly yields to the N'onagrii/ue in general interest. 



The species of this sub-family may be arranged as follows : 



SCOLECOCAMPIN.E M. 



Scolecocampa Guen. 



1. Liburna Geyer. 



Ligni Guen. 



2. Obscura Gr. 



3. Bipuncta Morr. 



4. Acutaria H. S. 



? Bistriaris Geyer. 



5. Spadaria Guen. 



6. Fessa Gr. 



EucALVPTERA Morr. 



Doryodes Guen. 



Amolita Gr. 

 CiLi.A Gr. 



7. Distema 6^r. 



ADIPSOPHANEb TeRMINELLLS, 11. S. 



In tliis genus the collar is roundedly bulged in front, and there is a 

 small tuft behind it. The wings are finely lined, 0/r/////rt:-like, and the 

 slender gray species have white sub-pellucid secondaries, which in Mis- 

 celliis ha\e diffuse smoky borders, but in Tcniiiiicllns have the apical edge 

 marked witli I)lackish fuscous while the wing itself is i^ure translucent 

 white ; while in the ty])e species it is slightly smoky. The new form, from 

 Texas, is a little more robust than Miscclliis ; it differs by the terminal 

 space on fore wings being shaded with blackish, the lines on interspaces 



