148 GEO. D. HULST. 



iilar, iiicomijlete, composed of black scales; submargiual line pale cinereous, 

 undulatiug; marginal line blackish, interrupted by the veins. Length of body 

 5 — 5.5 lines, of the wings 13 — 14 lines. 



Nova Scotia, Florida. 



Mr. Ragonot has determined one of my insects as this species, and 

 on it I refer the species to Tlascaki. 



MEROPTERA Grt. 

 {Ty\^e pravella Grt.) 



Can. Euto. xiv, 29, 1882. 



Oreana Hulst, Ento. Am. iv, 115, 1888. 



Labial palpi erect, not recurved, reaching beyond head, end member short, 

 heavy; maxillary palpi pencil tufted in "J, ; tongue strong, ocelli present; an- 

 tennae of % bent above base with scale tuft in bend; tarsi all spinulated. 

 Venation : fore wings 11 veins, 4 and 5 short stemmed, 10 present; hind wings 

 8 vein.s, 2 at angle, 3, 4 and 5 stemmed together. Genitalia of % : uncus spine 

 short, base bifid, almost a square with spine at middle of outer side ; harpe rather 

 broad, with a short lobe towards base above, and with a double spine at extreme 

 upper end ; lower plate short triangular, haired ; within the anal passage two 

 strong spines together, and another further in ; last segment beneath with six 

 tufts of hairs and the central portion n)odified into a sort of hairs and the central 

 portion modified into a sort of chitiuous shield. 



1. M. pravella Grote, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr, iv, 694, 1878 (Pempelia) ; 

 X. A. Ento. i, 10, pi. ii, fig. 8, 1879. — Expands 19 — 20 mm. Blackish and gray; 

 fore wings whitish gray at base: basal line blackish, difluse, consisting of two 

 outwardly oblique, slightly waved lines, usually coalesced, but allowing some- 

 times the narrow gray space between them to be seen. Median field gray ; two 

 superposed black dots on cell ; outer line whitish, finely dentate, with a little 

 deeper submedian notch, margined on both sides by a blackish shade, a row of 

 terminal black dots; fringes gray. Hind winge testaceous fuscous, rather pale, 

 with pale fringes. Beneath the hind wings are yellowish ; fore wings fuscous, 

 with the exterior line marked. Abdomen testaceous fuscous, thorax and head 

 dark grayish. Legs gray, marked outwardly with black. 



Maine, Texas, Illinois, Ohio. 



Prof. Forbes took the insect at Urbana, Ohio, May 14th, and at 

 Champaign, III, July 22d, both at electric light. 



2. M. uvinella Eag., Diag. N. A. Phyc. p. 8, 1887.— Expands 16 mm. Fore 

 wings gray, base paler; lines white, distinct, edged with blackish, the fir.st ob- 

 lique, slightly angled on dorsal vein ; second line oblique, nearly straight, not 

 rounded nor dentate in the middle as in pravella Grt. Discal spots united into a 

 Uuiule. Abdomen yellowish ochreous. 



No locality given ; ver}^ near tlie preceding species, and very 

 probably one with it. 



