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the length of the head, rather slender, porrected, thickest opposite the 

 face, thence suddenly convex and tapering to the tip, with the margin 

 beneath slightly concave. 



Leptoris breviornatana. — Fore wings tawny-yellow, with the veins and ner- 

 vules brown, and with brown strise beneath the nervules. An oblique brown 

 band arises on the basal third of the costa, and runs to the middle of the dorsal 

 margin, but does not reach it. On the costa, over the subcostal nervules, is a 

 brown patch, striated with darker brown. Extreme apical margin brown, cilia 

 tawny. Hind wings pale yellowish-white. Head and labial palpi dark brownish. 

 Coll. Ent. See. Philadelphia. — Virginia. 



SMICROTES. 



Costa ivith a slight fold at the base in the % , 



Smicrotes virescana. — Fore wings greenish-yellow. Costa at the base touched 

 with brown, with two testaceous spots on the costa, one about the middle and 

 the other midway between it and the tiis of the wing. The first costal spot is 

 faintly extended across the wing as a yellowish band and the space between 

 the spots is of a somewhat lighter hue than the rest of the wing. Hind wings 

 grayish fuscous. 



Author's Collection. 



MIXODIA? 



Mixodia ? intermistana. — Fore wings blackish-brown varied with whitisli 

 that is much clouded and speckled with blackish-brown. The basal patch is 

 indicated with tolerable distinctness, is blackish-brown, and angulated over 

 the base of the disk. The central fascia, blackish-brown, of irregular form, 

 contracted in the middle, expanded on the dorsal margin, and contains, about 

 the end of the disk, a rather conspicuous white spot. The si^ace between the 

 basal patch and central fascia is grayish, much olouded with dark brown. Ex- 

 terior to the central fascia the wing is sprinkled with white and at the anal 

 angle is a white patch, speckled with dark brownish. The costa is geminated 

 with white: the geminations are rather large from the middle to the tip. Thi- 

 white geminations are separated by blackish-brown spots. Cilia dark-brown, 

 speckled with white especially beneath the tip. Hind wings grayish fuscous. 



Author's Collection. 



SIDEREA ? 

 Siderea T nubilana. — Fore wings brown, with dark brown markings. The 

 basal i)atfh is indicated by a dark brown angulated line and the central fascia, 

 by an irregular dark brown band which becomes oclireous-brown in the mid- 

 dle of the wing and seems to be separated from a conspicuous dark brown tri- 

 angular patch near the dorsal margin, which is edged narrowly with oehreous. 

 In the space between the basal patch and central fascia in the fold of the 

 wing, is a dark brown spot. Near the anal angle is a dark brown, obliquely 

 placed stripe, and one of the same hue above it. The costal space above these 

 stripes is oehreous. 



ETJRYPTYCHIA.* n. gen. 

 Hind wings broader than fore wings. Costal and subcostal veins 

 with a couunon origin ; branches of subcostal conniveut. Median vein 

 4-branched, three of which aggregated, the two central ones from a 

 common base. 



* evpvs latus, Trrvxri plicatura. 



