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Apatelodes hyalino-puncta n. sp. 



9 . Very uniform pale cinerous. Head, legs and thorax concolorous. 

 On the inner third of the primaries is a straight, rather broad, darker 

 band, which increases in width towards the costa. Beyond the mesial 

 broad pale gray band, the wing is darker. The costal edge is fuscous, 

 the mesial crest of the thorax is tipped with brown, and beyond the 

 middle of the patagia is a narrow transverse line. Secondaries fuscous 

 gray, with an indistinct submarginal line slightly waved and edged with 

 gray. The upper part of the abdomen is reddish. Fringe darker. 



Beneath the primaries are crossed by two bands, the inner fuscous, 

 the outer dark gray. The margin of the wing is dark gray, especially 

 the fringe. The thin broad tuft on the hind tibiae are edged with 

 brown. On each side of the base of the abdomen is a broad oblons; 

 spot, edged broadly with white before and behind. 



The species derives its name from a peculiar square transparent spot 

 edged with brown, situated just below the apex of the fore-wing, nearly 

 opposite the middle point of the wing. The lower sub-c. nervule sepa- 

 rates it from a much smaller adjoining one in the extra discal space. 



This female differs from a male A. torrefacta in having both wings 

 well dentated, the apex much more acute, the outer margin more oblique, 

 and in having much smaller palpi. In coloration it is quite distinct, 

 since it does not possess the prominent lines and spots of A. torrefacta. 

 Both species have the subapical square transparent spot, but in A. tor- 

 refacta it is small and inconspicuous, while a second adjoining one is 

 wanting. 



Length of body, .85 ; exp. wings, 2 inches. 



Taken in Medford, Mass., by W. H. Dall, (Mus. Comp. Zool.) 



DATANA Walker. 

 Datana ministra Walker. 



Phalmna ministra Smith, N. H. Lep. Ins. Georgia, p. 161. Tab. 81. (1797). 



Drury, Illustr. Vol. 2. j^. 25. pi. 14, fig. 3. (1773). 



Pygoeraf ministra Harr., Cat. Ins. Mass. p. 73. (1835). 



Rt. Ins. Mass. p. 312. (1841). 



Third ed. pi. VI. fig. 6. fig. 212. (1862). 



Petasia ministra Westw. Edit. Drury, Illustr. II. p. 27, pi. 14. (1837). 



Datana ministra Walk., Cat. Lep. Br. Mus. V. (1855). 



Eumetoponaministra¥'\tc\\,'2\\A Rt No.x. Ins. N. York, p. 235, pi. 4. fig. 3. (1856). 



3rd Rt. p. 19. (1657). 



Datana ministra Morris. Synopsis, Lep. N. Ainer. p. 247. (1862). 



Brookliue, (Shurtleff.) Elaine. 



