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wing is darker, more blotchy and ferruginous. The longer fringes about anal 

 angle of the hind wings remind one of Teras, to which I was at first disposed 

 to refer both species, but the point of departure of vein 2 on the fore wings 

 and the straightness of the median nervure are opposed to the characters of 

 that genus. 



Habitat, Texas (Belfrage). 



Conchylis straminoides, Orote. 



The fore wings widen outwardly, lapping a little at internal angle. Pale 

 soft ochreous, with a median olivaceous band on the fore wings which below 

 appears as a very large and very intensely colored ferruginous spot taking up 

 the inferior half of tlie band and resting on internal margin. The apical re- 

 gion is powdered with dark scales and the wing terminally shaded downwardly 

 with olivaceous. The costa is also darker dotted at base. Thus there are in- 

 dications of three darker transverse shades. Fringes pale. Beneath the pri- 

 maries are dark fuscous, except along internal margin. Above, the hind 

 wings are pale with a light fuscous shade ; beneath with a sprinkling of 

 fuscous scales about the costo-apical region. Labial palpi dependent. 



Habitat, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Kesembles C. stramiuea of Europe and more distantly C. augula- 

 tana, Robinson, from this State. 



