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(34.) Tricopis chrysellusj Orotc. 



3 $ . — Head and tliorax mixed pale and sable brown. Fore wings with the 

 base narrowly brown, a median narrow transverse sable brown band outwardly 

 bent on the cell and the terminal space narrowly brown. Else the wing ia 

 silvery white with a brilliant lustre. Fringes pale yellowish. Hind wings 

 testaceous whitish with terminal fuscous clouding. Beneath white, the fore 

 wings with dull blackish stains. 



Expanse, 25 m, m. Collected in Texas by Belfrage; Kansas, 

 Prof. F. H. Snow, No. 192. 



Antiblemmaj Hubn. 



The body parts are slender and the form is geometridoua. The head is 

 small, the clypeus smooth. The squamation of the head and thorax shows a 

 slight intermixture of hairs. The eyes are naked, reticulated, without lashes. 

 The antennae are filiform, simple, scaled, pubescent beneath, with longer 

 setae on each joint, the base slightly swelled. The ocelli are present. The 

 maxillae are corneous, moderate. The labial palpi are of unusual length, 

 compressed and rather lengthily scaled, extended forwards fully three times 

 the length of the head ; third joint slightly porrect, nearly half the length of 

 the second. Legs slender, tibiae unarmed, with powdery squamation. Wings 

 ample, concolorous ; primaries with the apices acute, external margin full 

 centrally, costal edge slightly arched ; secondaries rounded, with the external 

 margin a little depressed before the determinate anal angle. Judging from 

 figures our species is allied to Antiblemma acclinalis Huhn., from Surinam. 



(35.) Antiblemma caiialis, Orote. 



3 . — The entire insect is dark brownish red. The wings show the t. p. line 

 extended as a pale narrow common stripe angulated near the costa of prima- 

 ries, as in the genera Pleonectyptera and Anticarsia, while the insect looks 

 much more like a Geometer, belonging to Drepanodes, for example. The reni- 

 form is moderate, of a dark rich brown. The orbicular shows as a dark dot 

 with a few whitish scales. The t. a. line and median shade are indicated on 

 the costal region of primaries. A common subterminal series of pale and 

 dark scale dots ; fringes shorter, brighter tinted than the wing. Beneath paler 

 with discal white and dark scale dots, and a common exterior darker, undu- 

 lated shade line. 



ExjMnse, 32 m. m. Habitat, New York {E. L. Graef, Esq., No. 539). 



