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Penthina matutina; Orote, Plate 2, fig. 9, primary wing. 



White. Head and thorax whitish. Primaries whitish with scattered dark 

 scales ; basal patch incomplete superiorly about the middle of the wing, with 

 scattered dark costal scales. Middle brownish band continued with distinct 

 edges marked by blackish scales. The succeeding whitish underspace is con- 

 tracted medially by the more diffuse apical clouding which extends beyond 

 the curved line. Costal marks minute. Beneath fuscous with whitish costal 

 edge and more distinct regularly divaricate dark streaks. 



Habitat, Texas {Belfrage, ^'/^). 



I have only a single specimen in which the secondaries are defec- 

 tive, biit the species is quite distinct from Blakeana, which it 

 resembles. 



Penthina toreuta, Orote, Plate 3, fig. 10, $, . 



I refer this very distinctly marked and easily distinguished species with 

 gome heoitation to the present genus. Uniformly dark silky wood brovvu. 

 The primaries are crossed centrally by two parallel slightly arcuate livid raised 

 metallic lines. Three costo-apical pale dots supported by metallic drops, the 

 tliird surmounting the narrower metallic terminal line which is interrupted on 

 subniediau interspace ; fringes burnished. Under the glass the squamation is 

 seen to consist of dark scales with paler overlying tips. Hind wings fuscous 

 with pale fringes. Beneath paler, silky; fore wings with an ochreous stain, 

 pale costal streaks and a faint even pale terminal shade on the margin fol- 

 lowed by a dark hair line. 



Hahitat, Pennsylvania. 



(xrapholitlia distema, Qrotc 



A tiny blackish silky species resembling the European compositella, but 

 with only two white lines on the internal margin of the primaries. Eight 

 white costal marks disposed in pairs, crowded towards the black apices and 

 becoming straighter and shorter ; the first pair more oblique and divaricate. 

 A silvery subterminal streak runs from opposite the cell over the median 

 nervules tapering to internal angle. Secondaries fuscous with pale fringes. 

 Beneath iridescent, greenish in certain lights, with minute white costal dots 

 over the outer half of the wing. Body scales beneath whitish. 



Ilahitat, New York ; Pennsylvania. 



