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twoen the norvuloa. Fringe brown, interrupted. Posterior wings uniform, 

 dark fuscous, without spot or band. Fringe wliite. Beneath, tlie disc of tlie 

 anterior wings dark gray, the -costa and terminal apace lighter. Posterior 

 wings light gray, witli discal dot and broad dark terminal band. 



Hob., doubtful, probably Texas, perhaps California. Four speci- 

 mens examined. In the collections of Buf. Soc. Nat. Sci. and H. 

 K. Morrison. 



Genus LITHOPHANE, mhn. 

 Lithopliane fagina (nov. ep.). 

 Expanse, 45 m. m. Length of hody, 18 m. m. 



Eyes naked, with strong lashes. Palpi slightly shorter than usual in TAth- 

 ophatie, shaggily haired, the third joint also clothed, not nearly smooth as in 

 Calocampa. Frontal and vertical tufts short, obtuse and improminent. Collar 

 and thorax bluish-gray, the former with a transverse black line, edged below 

 with ocherous, most evident directly in front. Behind the collar a longitu- 

 dinally furrowed thoracic crest. Abdomen untufted, slightly flattened. Wings 

 with entire margins, shaped as in pexata and cinerea ; this, with the obtuse 

 tufts, placing the species in the section Oraptolitha. Anterior wings with obso- 

 lete ornamentation, clear bluish-gray (the color of Cucullia intermedia, Speyer), 

 with a conspicuous broad white costal shade, which gradually becomes extinct 

 before the apex, and commences beneath the angular projection in the sides of 

 the thorax. The spots are absent, the markings are all fine hair-like black lines, 

 as in intermedia. The interior line forms one dentate tooth above the costal 

 nervure, and below it three long sharp spine-like teeth, each longer than its 

 predecessor, the last two projecting far into the median space; below the 

 third tooth the interior and exterior lines are connected by a fine line which 

 forms exactly between the base and the apex, and a little below the center of 

 the median space a small tooth, the lines of which are thickened so that it is 

 quite prominent. Above this tooth are the six long teeth of the exterior line, 

 each sharp, with its apex slightly curved upwards, and terminating on a ner- 

 vule. These teeth at their bases are not sharp, but rounded, in this respect 

 differing from those of the interior line. Below the line connecting the me- 

 dian lines there is a free space, and below this a very long narrow spot, sharp 

 at each end, evidently formed by the uniting together of the bases of two 

 teeth, one from each median line ; beneath this spot, and directly above the 

 inner margin, a short black line. In the upper portion of the median space, 

 beneath the costal white shade, there are several longitudinal lines, (the one 

 nearest the costa being bifid and somewhat thickened,) which represent the 

 ordinary spots united together, but in my only specimen they are too frag- 

 mentary to trace the outlines. Beyond the exterior line a series of black 



