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VOL. III. LONDON, ONT., DECEMBER, 187 1. No. 12 



MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KY. 



Continued from Pasre 209. 



LAVERNA. 



This genus may be distinguished by the tufts of raised scales on the 

 anterior wings. The antennae are more than half as long as the wings, 

 simple, inserted just above the eyes. Head and face smooth, with ap- 

 pressed scales. Face rather broad. Tongue very short. No maxillary 

 palpi ; labial palpi curving around the sides of the head upwards, the 

 tips approaching each other on the vertex, the third joint shorter than 

 the second, which is laterally compressed and slightly clavate. 



For a fuller diagnosis, see Dr. Clemens' Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. P/ii/a., 



i860, p. I/O. 



L. cephalonthiella. N. sp. 



Tongue and face white ; palpi grayish-white beneath, gray above ; 

 antennae gray, annulate with dark brown, tipped with white, and with 

 four or five very distinct white annulations near the tip. Thorax and 

 wings dark bluish-gray, flecked with numerous white scales and specks. 

 The wings are irregularly spotted with velvety black ; have an ochreous 

 patch at the base of the inner margin, not very distinct, and a larger one 

 upon the disc, and an irregular indistinctly outlined fasciae nearly crossing 

 the wing, just before the third costal streak, and dusted with golden in 

 the middle, and with white upon the costa. The ochreous patches are 

 not distinct in outline, and seem to be composed of confluent streaks. 

 Two rather large tufts of elevated scales within the inner margin, the first 

 velvety black, the second ochreous, margined with velvety black, and 

 larger than the first. The first tuft is before, and the second behind the 

 middle. Three velvety black, slightly oblique costal streaks, the first 

 small, placed before the middle ; the second larger, behind the mid- 

 dle ; and the third and largest just before the ciliae. In some lights, 



