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Stibadium,^- n. g. .* 



Allied to Stiria, but with a strong external resemblance to Telesilla cinere- 

 ola ; larger than this species and recalling Gortyna nitela, in size, but with 

 shorter body parts. The clypeus show a depression less prominent than in 

 Stiria and without the tubercle, not so cup-like, and shallower than in Pla- 

 giomimicus. The wings not so large and triangulate as in Stiria, but more 

 lilve Telesilla in their general shape. The legs are unarmed, except the short 

 anterior tibiae, which have a strong claw. The color is that of Telesilla ciner- 

 eola, a little darker and more olivaceous, thickly covered with pearly frost- 

 ings. The $ oviduct is not exerted and there is no projection of the fringe at 

 internal angle, as in Stiria. The eyes are naked. 



(31.) Stibadium spumosnm, Grote. 



t, . — Color of Telesilla cinereola, hut more olivaceous, thickly frost 3d. The 

 two median lines white, the t. a. narrowest and less distinct. The t. p. line 

 slightly projected and subangulated opposite the cell. The ordinary spots are 

 concolorous, faint, vaguely outlined by white annuli of hair-like fineness, 

 moderate, the reniform approximate to the t. p. line inferiorly. The subter- 

 minal space is paler and brighter tinted than the median, fringes concolorous. 

 Terminal line dark, followed by a pale line at base of fringes. Thorax con- 

 colorous with the fore wings. Hind wings jiale at base, fuscous outwardly ; 

 fringes pale fuscous with a paler basal shade. Beneath without markings ; 

 primaries dark, hind wings pale, whitish, with dark apical and costal cloud- 

 ings. 



Fxpanse, 35 m. m. Kansas (Prof. Snow, No. 63). 



(32.) Lygranthoecia saturata, Grote. 



$ $ . — Is of the same pearly olivaceous blackish with X. marginnta and 

 L. Thoreaui and rather resembles the former species, but the wings are evenly 

 saturated with an ochreous reddish tint which is peculiar. The median 

 white lines are not even as in L. marginata, but crenulated and, on the sub- 

 median fold, show two opposed dentations. Size of L. marginata and smaller 

 than L. Thoreaui, with the median lines more obvious than in the latter species. 

 The markings are much the same in the three species, but the median lines 

 are not as approximate centrally in L. saturata, as in L. Thoreaui, and are less 

 divergent on internal margin than in either of the other species. Hind wings 

 fuscous, with darker terminal shade, saturated with same tint as prhnaries. 

 Beneath more reddish ; secondaries whitish, thickly powdered with orange 

 red, with faint pale line and discal mark. Fore wings with transverse outer 

 dark shade line and discal marks darker than hind wings. 



Expanse, 26 m. m. Texas. Col. Am. Ent. Soc. (Belfrage), Mass. 

 (II. K. MoiTi.son). 



3 2 Gr.: CTtftdSiov. 



