18G4.] S5 



pubescent in 9 , longer and slightly stouter in % ; abdomen smooth, 

 slender, hardly exceeding the posterior wings, furnished with a sub- 

 tuft in the S , shorter, more conical, obtuse, and with two lateral sub- 

 tufts in the 9 ; legs smoothly clothed with short hair, hind tibiaj with 

 four spurs, inner pair the longest, hind femora furnished with a central 

 very slender spine ; tongue moderate, well developed. 



I refer this genus to M. Gruenee's Poaphilidse, the single species 

 composing it having evident analogies with Phurys and Cellptera. The 

 differences it presents from the latter are small ; the abdomen is not 

 '■crested" in either sex on the first segment nor are the legs clothed with 

 ''cottony" hairs. Mr. Walker, to whom I communicated a specimen, re- 

 garded genus and species as new, while doubtfully considering them 

 as allied to Toxicampa. 



Litomitus elongatus. hot. sp. Plate 2, fig. 6. % . 



Anterior wings of an even dull testaceous ash-color. Basal half-line 

 narrow, emanating from a very distinct brownish black costal spot ; 

 transverse anterior line distinct, brownish black, broadest at costa, fol- 

 lowed by a darker shade and forming, below vein 1 at internal mai'gin. 

 a broad arcuated spot somewhat similarly shaped to the sub-cellular 

 sign of the genus Piusia^ but inverted. Orbicular spot reduced to a 

 very minute white dot; median shade line narrow, most distinct at 

 costa, irregularly undulate, traversing the wing from costal to internal 

 margins between the ordinary spots ; reniform spot distinct, large, 

 rounded, ringed with a brownish line, with an internal lighter shade, 

 concolorous with the rest of the wing, connected superiorily with the 

 costa by a narrow shade line and succeeded by an irregulary dentate, 

 distinct shade line somewhat projected superiorily and which occupies 

 the position of the transverse posterior line. A very distinct, nearly 

 sti'aight, ochraceous, geminate band, preceded by a lighter shade, tra- 

 verses the wing from costal to internal margins, emanating just before 

 the apex, and joining the internal margin just before the internal angle, 

 the outer line shaded with brownish black. The subterminal line is 

 very approximate to this band, faint, regularly dentate, connecting a 

 series of small distinct black dots on the veins. Terminal line narrow, 

 distinct, semi-lunate, continued ; fringes concolorous. Posterior wings 

 of a liiihter more testaceous shade- than anterior, anal angde showing a 



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blackish, straight, discontinued shade line followed by a narrow irregu- 



