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reeled horizontally, short and very hairy, projecting a little 

 beyond the head ; head and eyes rather small ; thorax subglo- 

 bose and hairy ; abdomen short, subcylindrical. tufted at the 

 apex in the male with a pair of horny incurved spoon-shaped 

 forceps ; wings, superior subtrigonate. the apex a little angu- 

 lated in the female ; legs, posterior a little the longest ; tibiae, 

 anterior short with an internal spine, the others longer, with a 

 pair of spines at the apex, the posterior also with a pair below 

 the. middle ; claws simple and distinct ' 



Unfortunately, the best distinguishing characters are not 

 mentioned by Kirby or Curtis, and Curtis' figure might be 

 interpreted either way. The very hairy palpi, however, seem 

 characteristic i fasdata. While frigidaria has hairy palpi they 

 are not of the peculiar long bristly appearance of fascia ta. 

 Moreover, both authors mention prominently the male geni- 

 talia, which are extraordinarily conspicuous in fasdata but 

 obscured, as in most Geometers, in frigidaria. Therefore what 

 evidence can be secured from the descriptions indicates that 

 Psvc/wphora applies rather to fasdata than to frigidaria. It is 

 true t\\a.t fasdata does not seem to be the same species as sabinii, 

 but there is quite a difference in the localities from which these 

 two forms come, sabinii being from Melville Island and Boothia 

 Felix, 1400 miles east of Point Barrow, Alaska, where fasdata 

 was taken. Perhaps the matter cannot be settled finally until 

 true sabinii is again at hand. But in the meantime the follow- 

 ing seems most probably correct. A new generic name being 

 required lor frigidaria , I suggest Sdnneria in honor of Dr. 

 Henry Skinner. The genus will have the characters of Hulst's 

 definition of Psychophora, quoted above. 



Genus PSYCHOPHORA Kirby. 

 Synopsis of Spcdes. 



Fore wings with a basal dark patch and rather narrow median band ; hind 

 wings light on the outer fourth with two dark bands on the 



darker basal part of wing sabinii Kirby. 



Fore wing with no basal patch, the median band broad, nearly reaching 

 anal angle on inner margin ; hind wing uniformly whitish. 



fasciata Skinner. 

 Genus SCINNERIA Dyar. 



TyP e frigidaria Guen., with forms and synonyms as givrn by Htilst in 

 Bulletin 52, U. S. National Museum. 



