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1. LAMBDINA FERVIDARIA (Hiibncr) 



Therina fervi&aria Hubner, in Geyer, Zutrage zur Sammlung exotischer Schmet- 

 terlinge, vol. 3, p. 8, No. 205, figs. 409, 410, 1831— Hulst, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 

 52, p. 334,1903 (part). 



EUopia fcrvidaria (Hubner) Gtknke, Histoire naturelle des insectes lepidopteres, 

 vol. 9, p. 13L', 1857.— Barnes and McDunnottgh, Check list of the Lepidoptera 

 of Boreal America, No. 465f>, 1917. — McDtJNNOtrOH, Check list of the 

 Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of America (Part 1, 

 Macrolepidoptera), No. 4159, 1938. 



Mcde.—Vnknown except for the "Hubner" figure illustrating the 

 species, from which this description is prepared. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and upper surface of wings uniformly- 

 brownish ocher, with a conspicuous sprinkling of fuscous on costal area 

 of fore wing extending from base of wing to posterior transverse line, 

 fuscous irroration stronger basally ; a narrow border similarly dusted 

 with fuscous along outer margins of fore and hind wings. Transverse 

 lines and discal dots dark brownish ocher with conspicuous ocherous 

 borders, evenly curved (not strongly sinuate). Fore wing with trans- 

 verse posterior line extending from costa slightly outward to vein 4 

 and then slightly curved inwardly to inner margin. Hind wing with 

 the postmedial transverse line slightly bent or evenly curved. Outer 

 margins of both wings slightly angular ; hind wing with a slight pro- 

 duction indicated between veins 3 and 4 (normally this should occur 

 at vein 4) . 



Under surface of the wings pale ocherous along costa and the outer 

 margins; a somewhat darker brownish ocherous suffusion extending 

 basally from transverse posterior line of fore wing and the postmedial 

 transverse line of the hind wing. Abdomen, thorax, legs and collar 

 irrorated with fuscous. Discal dot and anterior transverse line of fore 

 wing obsolete; transverse posterior line faintly defined; postmedial 

 transverse line of the hind wing similarly indicated. 



Alar expanse, 35 mm. 



Fern ale. — Unknown. 



Type.— Lost (?) 



Type locality. — Georgia. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



Remarks. — The figures illustrating fervidaria in the original Ger- 

 man edition are not identical with those of the English facsimile of 

 the Zutrage. In the figures of the latter work, the conspicuous 

 ocherous borders of the transverse lines are absent and the outer mar- 

 gins of the wings are slightly more rounded, resembling those of 

 pellucidafla. 



I have seen no example of any species of Lambdina that agrees in 

 detail with Hiibner's figure, nor any specimens of Lambdina from the 

 type locality except a few examples of pellu-cidaria, which is evidently 



