THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 73 



ADELA. 



A. bella. N. sp. 



Vertex, upper portion of the face, palpi and a long streak on each 

 side of the thorax under the wings brilliant golden ; lower portion of the 

 face dark purple. % with the basal half of the antennae dark purple, the 

 remainder snowy white : in the $ only about the basal third is purple. 

 Thorax above the wings and both pairs of the wings dark shining purple, 

 the thorax and primaries with a golden gloss and appearing, according to 

 the light, dull brown purple, violaceous, or golden ; before the apex of the 

 primaries are three narrow, and in some lights, indistinct fasciae, the color 

 of which varies with the light and all of which are faintly dark margined 

 both internally and externally; the third fascia is at the apex. The fasciae 

 when most distinct have a silvery lustre. 



A/, ex., £ }4 inch ; 2 a little larger. Kentucky. 



A fresh or living specimen of this insect is a gorgeous creature, but 

 after death the colors become dull. I am not acquainted with the larva. 

 The imago may be taken in May, feeding upon the flowers of the "Climb- 

 ing Bittersweet" (Celastrus scandens), and a little later it is not uncommon 

 resting upon leaves along paths or roadways through the woods. 



dicte, gen. nov. 



Head, face as broad as the thorax ; head and face, basal joint of the 

 antennae and first and second joints of the labial palpi clothed with long 

 loose hair-like scales ; antennae with the basal joint incrassate, stalk 

 simple, reaching to the apex of the wings ; maxillary palpi microscopic ; 

 labial palpi drooping (in the dead insect), the terminal joint projecting 

 forwards and a little upward, and about two-thirds as long as the second 

 joint. (If recurved the palpi would reach the vertex.) Tongue naked, 

 rather longer than the thorax ; eyes globose, prominent. 



Wings deflexed ; anterior oblong ovate, obtusely pointed, with 

 moderately long ciliae. The costal vein attains the margin about the 

 middle. The subcostal curves gradually into the discal, giving off a long 

 branch before the middle, a shorter one behind the middle, then a furcate 

 one which curves upwards to the costal margin, whilst the apical branch 

 also curves up from its junction with the discal vein to the margin just 

 before the apex ; the discal vein closes the discal cell and sends three 

 branches to the posterior margin ; the median is straight to the discal, 

 where it becomes furcate, both branches attaining the posterior margin ; 

 submedian , simple. 



