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more robust build throughout, in the more closely appressed vestiture and 

 the rounded margin and apex of primaries. From Meliana it differs in the 

 stouter form, less pointed wings, and comparatively simple antennae of the 

 male. The roughened front may not be peculiar, in the absence of plates 

 or processes. 



Faronta aleada nov. sp. 



Head, thorax and abdomen uniform creamy white or grayish tending to yellow- 

 ish, the head usually most intense in color. Primaries with the disk a faint leaden 

 gray, costa and internal margin creamy white, median vein pale, and dividing into 

 pale rays on veins 3 and 4. In the apical region the veins are a little dark marked. 

 No lines or dark spots on the wing. Secondaries white in both sexes. Beneath, 

 white; primaries with a tinge of yellow, which is better marked at the margins. 



Expands 1.30-1.42 in. ^ 32-35 mm. 



Habitat: Brazos, Tex. 



One male and three females, all in good condition; from tlie collection 

 of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. The species is entirely 

 unlike any other of our leucaniids, and agrees with nothing described by 

 Hampson from the adjoining faunal region. The tendency is for the leaden 

 gray disk to become rubbed so as to give a uniform creamy appearance. 



Anarta Ochs. 



The species of this genus are not well represented usually in American 

 collections, and my own material has been for two years or more eked out 

 by a collection loaned me by Mr. Philip Laurent of Philadelphia. This 

 was mostly purchased from Staudinger, and contained a fair series of the 

 circum-polar species, including those listed as common to the American 

 and European faunas. 



Sir George Hampson's revision of the species drops out several of our 

 listed names, and adds others, so that I found it desirable to rearrange my 

 material, and did so v.ith very interesting results. 



Three series are recognized : — 



I. Antennae of male strongly serrate and fasciculate; fore wings very 

 narrow. 

 II. Antennae of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 

 III. Antennae of male ciliated. 



The first of these series contains only a single species, and is not repre- 

 sented in our fauna. 



The series in which the male antennae are minutely serrate and fascicu- 

 late, or bristle-tufted, is divided as follows: — 



