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Laverna. — L. albella (n. sp.) 



Snowy white ; each wing with about fifteen brown scales scattered 

 over the apical half, some of which are in the cilia. Al. ex. scarcely 

 one-half inch. Spanish Bar, August 3d; a single specimen. Probably 

 not a true Laverna as the palpi are rather small and more like those of 

 Phyllrenidls. The vertex is short and the antenna) and Avings, inclu- 

 ding the neuration, are those of Laverna. 



L. alhapalpeUa (n. sp.) 



Palpi, head and thorax, white, the vertex stained with purplish 

 fuscus, and base of second joint of the palpi brown on the outer surface; 

 antenna) brown ; forewings brown mixed with purplish and ocherous; 

 the dorsal margin of the forewings, from the base to the middle, is white, 

 the brown color of the wing projecting into the white but not dividing 

 it into two spots. There is a small white spot about the middle of the 

 costal margin, and a white fascia placed about the apical one-fourth, 

 is widest on the costa and contains a brownish spot about its middle, 

 and there is a confused series of whitish spots around the apex at the 

 base of the cilia which are yellowish white : hind wings pale greyish 

 fuscus ; abdomen brown, each segment margined behind with silvery 

 white ; and tuft yellowish, legs dark brown annulate with white. Al ex. ^ 

 a little over one-half inch. A single specimen captured on flowers of 

 Heliopds levis at Spanish Bar, August 3d. 



L. grisselki (n. sp.) 



Second joint of the palpi with spreading scales at the apex beneath. 

 Head and second joint of the palpi pale ocherous, almost hoary, with 

 greyish brown intermixed. Third joint of the palpi greyish brown 

 with an ocherous annulus at the base and one at its middle and the tip 

 ocherous; Antenms dark brown, with the basal joint a little enlarged 

 and having some short bristle like scales projecting downwards over 

 the eyes. Thorax, on the upper surface dark grisseous (pale gray over 

 laid with dark brown). Base of the dorsal margin of the forewings a 

 little paler than the thorax, the forewings, otherwise dark brown, 

 obscurely streaked and somewhat suffused with yellowish ocherous ; 

 the dark brown hue projects into the pale grisseous of the basal dorsal 

 margin but does not divide it into two portions ; the pale grisseous 

 hue extends nearly across the wing at the base, and is margined behind 



