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Differs by the external margin of tlic wings being a little more 

 rounded, especially in the ? , than in tlie two preceding species, 

 with which it seems otherwise to agree structurally. This species 

 commences to remind us of Euclidia. The remarkably beautiful 

 though hidden ornamentation of the under surface of the prima- 

 ries will always readily distinguish A. danistica. 



Axenus, n. g. 



The corporal vestiture is rough and coarse and the eyes are almond-shaped, 

 constricted, and to a great extent hidden by the hairs of the small head, among 

 which the rather large ocelli are at first not easily seen. Hence we have a 

 correspondence with Omia,"* from which the frontal characters seem to sepa- 

 rate our species. The clypeus is furnished inferiorly with a broad thin plate, 

 which extends horizontally forwards, is medially slightly excavate, as wide as 

 the front, and is not exceeded by the comparatively short palpi. The habitus 

 recalls some of the sisecies of Melicleptria, such as diminutivtis. The antennae 

 are scaled, very finely ciliate beneath. The eyes naked and destitute of lashes. 

 The legs appear unarmed and the maxillae are stout. The small species is 

 olivaceous blackish, with paler powdery, transverse lines over both wings, and 

 with long and paler fringes. 



Axenus arvalis, Grote, Plate 4, fig. 8, $ . 



$ 2 . — Primaries olivaceous blackish, with the terminal transverse lines 

 visible, powdery, pale glaucous-ochreous ; this pale color extends as a band 

 over the anterior portion of the median space. Eeniform visible, pale, incon- 

 spicuous. Hind wings more blackish, with a subterminal double, pale and 

 dark, rigid line running straightly across the wing. Behind it is a pale shade, 

 in which may be detected the pale discal dot. All the fringes variably pale 

 and contrasting. Beneath paler than above, more yellowish. The markings 

 of the upper surface are imitated and the pale discal dot of the primaries is 

 evident. Body blackish, with olivacecus-ochrey vestiture. 



Expanse, IG to 20 m. m. Hahitat, California (Mr. Ily. Edwards, 

 No. lOG). 



Eight specimens examined. Quite yariable in the distinctness of 

 the transverse powdery lines. The ornamentation reminds us faintly 



"» Die ich nicht in Natura kenne, von dem sich Axenus aber sicher xmterscheidet durch die 

 Stinibildung, die keine nabelformigen Zapfen (also gleich Lederer's Tafel 2, flg. 11, sein soil), 

 sondern eiue liorizontaler vorstehendcr, in der mitte seicht ausgehohlter, schwarze Platte zeigt 

 (Lederer's fig. 10, nicht sehr unahnlich, aber mehr nacli uuten gestellt, diinner, und andera 

 ausgcschnitten). 



