1864.] 359 



Edema producta Walk., List. Lep. Br. Mus. V. (1855). 



Morris. Synopsis Lep. N. Amer. p. 2'tL (1862). 

 " Florida." (Walk.) 



CECRITA Walker. 

 Cecrita guttivitta Walker. 



Cccrita gutticiUa Walk.. List. Lep. Br. Mus. V. (1855). 



Nova Scotia. (Walker.) 



Cecrita? bilineata n. sp. 



Cinereous. Upper side of the palpi and end of tte patagia dark. 

 Primaries crossed by a basal and outer waved and angulated line, mar- 

 o-iued on each side with blackish. The basal line is angular inwards 

 on the internal nervure, is rounded outwards across to the subcostal 

 and acutely angulated on that nervure. Outer line angulated outward 

 on the internal, and waved and angulated to the costa. Between this 

 line and the outer margin is a faint band. Between the two principal 

 lines are some black scales; a few black scales mark the obsolete discal 

 spot. Towards the apex on the costa are four dark spots. 



Secondaries smoky, a little discolored at the internal angle, beneath 

 concolorous. The 9 wants the few black scales between the two prin- 

 cipal lines. 



Length of body % , .70, 9 .75; exp. wings % , 1.50, 9 1.50. 



Dr. Harris has reared this from the larva, which pupated July 25 ; 

 imago Aug. 15. 



Cecrita T mustelina n. sp. 



9 • Uniform light sable brown. End of shoulder tippets (patagia) 

 edged with black. Lower half of fore-wings sable brown, as well as 

 the outer portion near the margin nearly up to the costa, while the 

 rest of the wing is dark ashen. Nervules dark. A small black discal 

 spot; A costo-apical black spot. 



Secondaries sable brown, of the same color beneath. 



Length of body .75; exp. wings 1.65 inch. 



•• Camb.. June 15." Harris. (Coll. Harr.) 



(EDEMASIA nov. gen. 

 Head unusually prominent; vertex with a prominent narrow acute 

 tuft projecting horizontally out between the eyes, and CDutinued down 

 the sides of the front, while above and next the pruthorax is a trian- 

 gular pit. Antennae pectinated on the basal two-thirds. Maxilla? slen- 



