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here continued. Beneath, with the lines repeated, on secondaries a discal dot. 

 A 5 primary wing measures 12 m. m. along costa. 



Habitat, Philadelphia; Buffalo, Oleau, Albauy, N. Y. (3G29, 

 coll. Lintner). 



The imago flies in June and July in company with Philometra 

 on low grounds in herbage. Fresh specimens are deeper colored, as 

 the active moth readily loses its scales by attrition. 



Litognatha litophora, Orote. 



3 ? . — Of the usual pale gray color, but powdered with brown scales, not 

 olivaceous, as in Pityolita or ochraceous as is more usual in Zanclognatha. 

 The transverse posterior line has the same shape as in Pityolita, but it is 

 dark irown, and is continued with nearly the same distinctness across the 

 secondaries which are concolorous. Subterminal shade faint on both wings. 

 Terminal line very distinct, dark brown, fine and subcontinuous. Fringes 

 soiled with brownish. Beneath, the wings are darker than above. The t. p. 

 line is reproduced with great distinctness across both wings. A primary 

 wing measures 12 m. m. along the costal edge. 



Hahitat, Philadelphia; Albany ( 5 , 2535, Lintner legit). 



Meghypena, n. g. 



Ocelli. Labial palpi very long, as long as the thorax ; third joint small, 

 porrected, second very long, a little excavate beneath, projected straightly 

 forwards. Primaries wide, swelled at the shoulder, depressed medially, rising 

 to the acute apices below which the external margin recedes, rising again 

 opposite the median nervules ; internal margin straight. 



This genus differs from Macrhyjiena in the much longer palpi 

 and acute apices of the primaries. The Avings are unusually ample 

 yet proportionate, hence differing from Plathypena with its wide 

 secondaries and narrow primaries. The propinquity of the median 

 lines is noticeable. The species are recognisable from the irrorate 

 character of the ornamentation. Beneath, on the secondaries, this 

 is quite noticeable, the discontinued darker streaklets reminding us 

 of some Geometridae quite strongly. My material is limited to 

 single specimens of either species. 



