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CHARICLEA, Kirby. 



Cliariclea cxprimens. 



HeliotMs exprimens, Walker. 



Kepreseiits in the Atlantic District the European Chariclea 

 umbra, Lederer {HeliotMs marginata, Auct.). 



Argillophora,* n. g. 



Ocelli. Antennae simple, scaled, pubescent in both sexes. Labial palpi 

 porrected, curved, coarsely scaled, held apart from, but not exceeding, the front, 

 divaricate. Wings rather wide and subangulate. Fore wings roundedly pro- 

 duced opposite median nervules, below which the external margin is cut 

 inwardly to internal angle. Hind wings with rather determinate apices, full 

 about median nervules and a little inwardly cut before anal angle. Primaries 

 12-veined ; 3, 4, 5, near together, 5 near 4, joined by a portion of the cross 

 vein which is discontinued, leaving the cell open. An accessory cell from the 

 middle of the lower margin of which 6 is angulatedly thrown off opposite 5 ; 

 7 and 8 arise together from the outer point of the cell ; 9 out of 8 to costa 

 just before apex ; 10 out of the upper margin of the cell near its apex to 

 costa ; 11 out of subcostal nervure opposite 2 ; 12 a simple nervure to costa 

 near 11. Hind wings with two internal veins, 1 and la ; 3 and 4 from one 

 point; 5 removed, springing from the cross vein which beyond its inception, 

 arcuatedly closes the cell ; 6 and 7 from one point, together ; 8 from the ner- 

 vure at a point within the inception of 2. Hind tibiae with double spurs. 

 Body linear; abdomen exceeding the secondaries, with very minute dorsal 

 tufts. 



The color is yellowish buff, wings nearly alike, primaries Avith a 

 white angulate fascia, so that we are reminded of Leucania. But in 

 the arcuate palpi, the wide wings, their shape and the neuration, 

 we see that we have to do with a form allied to Spargaloma, and 

 belonging to a very different group of the family. 



Argillophora furcilla, Orote. 



i S . — Dull creamy buff, shaded with blackish obliquely downwards from 

 the apex inwardly, and longitudinally from the base outwardly over the me- 

 dian space. A black dot at base, one at the locality for the orbicular, and one 

 (sometimes wanting) at the extremity of the cell, all parallel. A prominent 



^Ur. : upyMog et ^ipo. 



