Notes and Descriptions, Ko. 2. 21 



Posterior wings almost wholly blackish; a median testaceous-whitish 

 shade; base covered with dull, pale blackish scales. Fringes, white, 

 interrupted centrally with black, where a pale shade intrudes on the 

 black terminal scales. Beneath, very pale, with broad black terminal 

 bands; on the primaries an oblique black band crosses the disc and 

 joins the terminal band on internal margin before the angle. On the 

 secondaries a neat black discal dot. 



Head, and thoracic region above, very dark cinereous. Palpi pro- 

 minent ; apical joints long; basal joints pale, whitish. Abdomen, dull 

 brownish, paler than the thorax. Beneath, the thoracic and abdomi- 

 nal regions are pale and whitish. Legs, pale, darker on their outer 

 surfaces. 



Exp. 9 1.90 inch. Length of body 0.90 inch. 



Habitat.— Texas, (E. T. Cresson.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil. 



Size of Aedia fascicular is Hiibner, but a broader winged species and 

 with different coloration of primaries above. There is no fascicle of 

 hair on the middle legs, the specimen being evidently a female; while 

 this character is given by M. Guenee as specific when describing Hiib- 

 ner's species, it may, however, be of generic value. The antenna} are 

 defective in the specimen but appear to be filiform. "We retain for this 

 genus the term used by Hiibner in the " Zutraege." 



Aedia pallescens, n. s. (Plate 3, fig. 5, 9 •) 



Anterior wings cinereous. Basal spaces pale ochreous with a red- 

 dish tinge; a dark basal half-line. Transverse anterior line black, in- 

 distinctly geminate, since it is preceded by a paler coincident shade 

 line which is plainly separated on costa, below which it spreads and 

 becomes fused with the dark line. This latter is even, with a promi- 

 nent obtuse angulation below the median nervure. Median space dis- 

 tinctly yellowish-ochraceous, crossed by two waved, darker, median 

 shade lines, cinereous on costa except before the t. a. line where it is 

 colored as interiorly. The transverse anterior line is in fact followed 

 by a discolorous oblique band, which is here yellowish-ochraceous, as 

 in Aedia nigrescens, where it is brown. The extra discal spot is very 

 pale. Transverse posterior line black, shaped as usual in the genus, 

 with two outward angulations corresponding to the shape of the extra 

 discal spot. Subterminal space cinereous, shading outwardly to paler. 

 Sub terminal line, faint, preceded superiorly by interspaceal black 

 marks and indicated by pale succeeding scales; terminal line, obsolete. 



Secondaries, much as in Aedia nigrescens, but the pale, semi-trans- 

 parent shade extends over the base of the wing, leaving some pale 



