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Abdomon without tufts. Labial palpi well developed, hardly exceeding the 

 vertex, thickly scaled ; third joint proportionally long. External margin of 

 the wings waved. Legs closely scaled ; fore tibiae shortened and with a 

 swelling, more thickly haired. Antennae scaled above, thickly ciliate beneath, 

 with a lateral longer bristle on the sides of each joint. Wings wide ; size 

 rather large ; body proportionally slender. Squamation smooth and flattened, 

 without tufts ; between the antennae the scales have a forward direction with- 

 out forming a prominent interantennal tuft. Head proportionally large. 

 Collar discolorous, somewhat wide ; thorax square in front, rather heavy ; 

 abdomen proportionally slender, tapering, fully as long as the hind wings. 



Differs from Leiicanitis in the middle tibiae being alone spinose ; 

 from Catocala in the waved margin, smooth vestiture, and concol- 

 orous wings ; from Pseudopliia by the non-spinose hind tibiae ; 

 from Harveya by the spinose middle tibiae, less thickly scaled 

 middle and hind legs, broader wings with waved external margins, 

 stouter palpi and slenderer shape. The ornamentation recalls 

 Megachyta lituralis, and certain of the Geometridae. 



Spiloloma luniliiiea, Orotc. 



^ . — Pale brownish dove color. Collar darker ; body concolorous. Fore 

 wings with obsolete ornamentation. Costal edge with four distinct deep 

 brown liturate spots marking the inception of the extra-basal, transverse 

 anterior, median shade and transverse posterior lines. Below these the 

 transverse lines are merely indicated by minute nervular dots. The median 

 shade is very faint, linear, somewhat ochreous. The ordinary spots are obsolete. 

 Subterminal line faintly indicated, marked on costa and preceded by two 

 costal marks. A darker shade over the median nervules on terminal 

 space. Hind wings concolorous, with the t. p. line continuous and formed 

 by minute nervular dots, and the pale subterminal, faintly indicated. Beneath, 

 without markings, except a quite distinct continued dark narrow extra-mesial 

 common lunulated line drawn across botli wings, and accentuated on costal 

 region of primaries. A faint discal shade spot on the hind wings. 



ExjMnse, 50 m. m. Hahitat, West Virginia (coll. Thco. L. Mead, 

 No. 148). 



Our actual knowledge of our Moths, and more especially the 

 Noctuidae, is yet too indifferent and our collections too meagre, to 

 allow us to draw any stable conclusions with regard to their geo- 

 graphical distribution. While certain species occur from California 



