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the dorsal margin ; a row of dark brown spots around the apex, a dark 

 brown spot on the base of the costa and an obscure one at the inner 

 angle : the apical portion of the wing is thickly dusted. Antennae gray- 

 ish stramineous : head and palpi sordid stramineous, the outer surface of 

 the palpi brown. Alar ex. 3/$ inch. New Orleans, La., in November. 



j. T. auristrigella. N. sp. 



Head and antennae straw color or pale golden, palpi silvery ; thorax 

 and wings brown in some lights, bright purple, roseate or violaceous, with 

 a wide shining straw colored or pale golden streak upon the fold, 

 beginning at the base of the costa and extending to and into the beginning 

 of the dorsal ciliae, and sometimes connected with a large straw colored 

 or pale golden costal spot before the costal ciliae ; ciliae pale golden 

 Alar ex. ; >8 inch. Kentucky, in July. 



4. T. straminiella. N. sp. 



Head sordid yellowish ; palpi, antennae, thorax and anterior wings 

 straw color, palpi brownish externally ; sides of the thorax behind the 

 eyes brown ; a row of small brown spots along the fold, another at the 

 end of the disk. Apex dusted with brown. Alar ex. x /z inch. Ken- 

 tucky, in June. 



5. T. iridella. N. sp. 



Palpi and lower part of the face brownish ; upper portion and vertex 

 yellowish ; antennae brown ; thorax and anterior wings iridescent, in 

 some lights brown, in others glittering bluish green, violet or topaz red. 

 In some lights the entire wing appears of a beautiful azure. Posterior 

 wings pale fuscous. Alar ex. f inch.* Col. Mr. Wm. Saunders, of 

 London, Ontario, Canada. 



A beautiful insect under the microscope. 



6. T. misceclla. N. sp. 



Head and palpi pale yellowish ; antennae pale fuscous ; thorax and 

 primaries fuscous and saffron yellow intermixed in almost equal quantities, 

 the fuscous scales being sometimes aggregated into small spots, one of 

 which is about the end of the disc and a larger one is near the base. 

 Alar ex. 3/$ inch. Kentucky. 



