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Amolita n. g. 



Q . — An exceedingly frail and weak form, with squarer primaries than Scnta, 

 and with the body squamation entirely mealy and scaley. Ocelli. Head small 

 and narrow. Eyes naked, without lashes. Maxillae weak. Legs unarmed. 

 Antennae ( 2 ) simple, scaled above, with two fine bristles on each joint. La- 

 bial palpi with very short terminal joint, hence shorter than in Senta. No 

 clypeal protuberance. Fore wings broad, tortriciform in shape, with straight 

 oblique external margin and defined internal angle, 12 veins, 9 out of 8, a short 

 furcation ; an accessory cell from the outer end of which 7, 8 and 10. Abdo- 

 men not flattened ; ovipositor not visible. 



Amolita fessa Orote. 



2 . — Fore wings very pale straw color with concolorous fringes, the veins 

 not marked and without other ornamentation than two diffuse dull reddish 

 shades, the first of which runs from the base of the wing over the median 

 nervure and ascends beyond the cell to apices ; the second runs obliquely from 

 about the middle of internal margin to below the apices on external margin, 

 its origin not well defined. A reddish dot in the place of the reniform. Hind 

 wings whitish without markings ; beneath whitish, immaculate. Body parts 

 pale, concolorous. 



Expanse, 30 m. m. ; Ireadtli of primary, 6 m. m. 



A specimen from New York with the number 536, received from 

 Mr. E. L. Graef. The genus may be entered on the " List," between 

 Doryodes and Senta, on page 20. 



Heliopliila adjuta Grote. 



3 . — Closely allied to H. phragmitidicola ; the fore wings are purely obscure 

 straw color, like those of H. palUns, without rosy tints. No traces of the lines ; 

 a black dot on the cell in the place of the reniform. A darker shading below 

 the median vein, vaguely ascending beyond to external margin below the 

 apices. T. p. line indicated by an obsolete series of black dots of which only 

 two or three, wide apart, are perceptible. Collar distinctly double lined. Hind 

 wings pale straw color with soiled veins and a tolerably broad fuscous termi- 

 nal band, entirely wanting in this sex of H. plir'agmitidicola. Beneath, on the 

 costa, is a distinct black dot and a succession of marks on the veins shows the 

 transverse line. In the strongest marked specimens of its ally the line is only 

 indicated by a faint shaded dot on costa and usually this is entirely wanting. 

 A series of terminal black points on both wings beneath. Collar with double 

 lines ; body more yellowish than in its ally with a fuscous shading on the ab- 

 domen dorsally. 



Expanse, 35 m. m. IlahiUd, Alabama (Grote). 



This form can be separated from 1£. p)hra(jmitidicola, by the char- 

 acter of the hind wings and by the general richer more yellow col- 

 oring. The type is in the collection of tliis Society, 



