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crossing the space and forming a dash. Terminal space reddish ; fringes 

 interrupted. Hind wings white with faint mesial line, fringes white. 

 Beneath white with reddish cast and faint reddish common line. Front 

 with y black line. Expanse 43 mil. Colorado, Dr. Theodore S. Bailey, 

 for whom I name the singularly colored species. 



MICRO-LKPIDOPTERA. 



BY V. 'I'. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KY. 



PHILONOME. 



Philonome Clemensella Chamb., ante v. 6, p. <py. 



I have usually taken this species at the same place, about one or two 

 specimens a year, and always within ten yards of the place where I first 

 took it six years ago. The trees in the immediate vicinity were Gleditschia 

 triacantlios, Ulmus americana, Prwnis serotina and Celtis occidentalis, but 

 it may have fed as larva upon some weeds or shrubs growing near. All 

 of my specimens were taken about the 8th or 10th of July. This year, 

 however, I have captured (June 14th) two specimens (perfectly fresh) on 

 Gleditschia triacantlios at another place, where the nearest tree was Celtis 

 occidentalis, growing some thirty yards away. Its larva and food plant, 

 however, are not yet by any means certainly ascertained. 



The labial palpi are divergent and ascending, and not quite so long as 

 the maxillary pair. I have stated loc. cit. that the antennae are about two- 

 thirds as long as the wing and pale reddish orange ; perhaps it would be 

 more correct to say that they are a little more than half as long as the 

 wings, with the base reddish orange, and the stalk white tinged with pale 

 orange or yellow. I have also stated that there is a reddish orange trans- 

 verse stripe across the top of the thorax before its apex, and this is most 



