Grote.] 4:iO [Dec. 6, 



Ochsenheimer by this name under Apamea, wliicli is not our common 

 Gortyna nictitans, but a species of Oligia. Although Ochsenheimer 

 identifies under Cosmia, the fuloago of Htibner, with paieacea, there is no 

 necessity here for assuming that the fulvago of the Tentamen is really 

 this latter species. In the interest of the synonymy I assume Hie fulvago 

 of the Tentamen to refer to i\\e fulvago of Linne, the cerago of Fabricius, 

 which is given by name as the type of Xanthia. 



Tribe Scolecocampini Grote, 1890. To this group, Mr. J. B. Smith 

 refers the genus Pseudorgyia Harvey, with its type, versuta. There can 

 be no objection to this reference, and the genus may follow the genus 

 Eucalyptera, on page 74, of my list of 1895. Apparently allied to Cilia 

 and Amolita, the following may find there place in the same tribe : 



Oxycilla, n. g. Tibiae not spinulated ; anterior tibiae unarmed ; front 

 smooth ; palpi exceeding the head by about its own length, flattened, 

 obliquely ascending. The venation could not be examined ; the primaries 

 are wide, not narrow as in Doryodes, the accessory cell is present. 



Oxycilla tripla Grt. Pale straw-colored, dusted with dark scales on the 

 outer or terminal half of primaries in the female. A medium and an 

 outer, wavy, very faint brown line ; the first of these is oblique beyond 

 middle of cell, the outer line parallel beyond end of cell, about one-third 

 the distance to the margin. Another line half way between this and the 

 margin in female only, of ground color ; in male with an inward faint 

 shaded brownish border. Fringe the darkest part of the wing, preceded 

 by faint narrow terminal brown venular dashes. Secondaries shaded 

 with brownish especially outwardly. Types in coll. Neumojgen, under 

 the name Bivula tripla Grote. My studies on the species were interrupted 

 by the state of my health, and I left it with the name attached to the 

 specimens under which it is quoted by Mr. J. B. Smith, in the Catalogue 

 of 1893. This and the following were among the Arizona material in the 

 collection, and their relation to Rivula, which is also referred here by Mr. 

 Smith, is not ascertained. 



Zelicodes linearis Grote (Litognatha). The female type was referred 

 by me doubtfully to the Deltoid genus and Mr. J. B. Smith rejects 

 it from the group. The characters of Zelicodes agree with Oxycilla, till 

 we come to the palpi. These are shorter, scarcely compressed, the termi- 

 nal joint minute. I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Harrison G. 

 Dyar for notes on the species which enable me to publish them. The 

 relationship of these small, frail, pale colored forms, which have a super- 

 ficial resemblance to the Pyralidae, and Hypeninae, cannot be fully made 

 out until material is accumulated for dissection. • I have described the 

 structure and neuration of our Eastern Cilia distema quite fulh% as also 

 Amolita (N. Am. Ento., i, 99, 100, 1880). It seems to me that we can 

 hardly include Kivula with tliis type. According to Mr. J. B. Smith it 

 "lacks the accessory cell and vein 10 of the primaries arises from the sub- 

 costal as in some of the Deltoid genera." The value of the characters of 

 vein 5 of the secondaries has been impeached by Mr. Smith when I used 



