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Fringes dark, cleanly cut with pale at the extremities of the veins. Hind 

 wings uniformly dark fuscous, with a neat terminal line. Fringes pale, 

 cut with dark scales ; traces of a transverse line apparent on internal 

 margin. Thorax and palpi dark ; front and collar with an admixture of 

 pale scales. Abdomen fuscous, the segments finely marked above by 

 pale scales, the three basal segments with dorsal black minute tufts. 

 Beneath pale ochrey fuscous ; fore wings dusky within the faintly marked 

 median transverse line, showing the discal dot ; subterminal line indicated 

 by costal dots ; terminal line neatly indicated on both wings. Hind 

 wings with discal dot and faint transverse median shade line. 



Expanse 30 m. m. Habitat Albany (O. Meske) ; Quebec (F. X. 

 B&anger). 



The six North American species of Bomolocha I arrange as follows. I 

 recognize Zeller's achatinalis as my madefactalis. Guenec describes from 

 a figure and I noted that his description did not quite correspond with 

 my specimens, but I was unwilling to bestow a new name. It is question- 

 able whether any of Guende's descriptions from Abbott's figures should, 

 with propriety, have been written. Mr. Lintner has sent me my dark 

 var. of Baltimoralis as " $ laciniosa" 



Bomolocha, Hubner. 

 Type : Cr ambus eras sails, Fabr. 



scutdlaris, Grote. bijugalis. 



Baltimoralis. Hype?ia bijugalis, Walker. 



Hype?ia Baltimoralis, Guenee. Hypena pallialis, Zeller. 



Hypena laci?iiosa, Zeller. manalis. 



% Hypena benignalis, Walker. Hypena manalis, Walker. 



abalienalis. madefactalis. 



Hypefia abalienalis, Walker. Hypena madefactalis, Guende. 



Hypena achatinalis, Zeller. 



Hypena olivacea, Grote. 



$ . Closely allied to H. humuli and H. evanidalis, and with the same 

 pattern of ornamentation. The general color is dusky olivaceous, not 

 dusky blackish brown, as in humuli, or light rusty brown, as in evanidalis, 

 and without the median costal darker shade or apical streak, evenly 

 colored. Four raised median black discal scale dots. Two (the reni- 



