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edging, the whole with a fused appearance. Base of the wing deep red at mid- 

 dle; wing washed with deep reddish ou posterior portion of onter middle field. 

 Hind wings fuscous, light at base, very dark outwardly. Beneath dark fuscous. 



Florida. Taken early in May. 



MEIilTARA Walk. 

 {Type prodenialis Wlk.) 



Walk., C. B. iM. pt. 27, p. 136, 1863. 



Megaphycis Grt., Can. Ento. xiv, 29, 1882. 



Labial palpi horizontal, or slightly ascending, short, all members 

 heavily scaled, those of the first and second hanging downward, 

 often in heavy tufts ; maxillary palpi very small ; front shaggy with 

 lougish scales ; tongue comparatively weak and short ; antennae long, 

 three-fourths of costa, quite heavily bipectinate in both sexes, with- 

 out bend or tuft; thorax subquadrate, short, heavily and loosely 

 scaled. Abdomen heavy, somewhat flattened above ; fore wings sub- 

 triangular, costa straight or somewhat concave ; hind wings broad, 

 long. Genitalia of S : uncus stout, spine short ; har[)e plain, broad ; 

 lower plate long, spatulate, somewhat curved uj), veiy beavily clothed 

 at end with stiff' inturned hairs. Legs short, heavy, very heavily 

 and loosely scaled; tarsi spinulated. Venation: fore wings 11 veins, 

 4 and 5 stemmed, 10 separate; hind wings 7 veins, 2 near angle, o 

 and 4 short stenmied, 5 wanting, 6 short stemmed with 7 ; cell short. 



Synopsis of Species. 



First line slightly dentate prodenialis. 



with very deep angle deiitata. 



" nearly obsolete feriialdialis. 



1. M. prodenialis Walk., C. B. M. pt. 27, p. 137. 1863. 



bollii Zell., Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges., Wien, 1872, p. 550 (Beit, i, 104), pi. iii, fig. 

 21; 1875, p. 130 (Beit, iii, 130); Grote, Can. Ento. xiv, 29, 1882; Snellen, Tids. 

 Ento. XXX, 64, pi. v. fig. 64, pi. v, figs. 6, 6a. 



Labial palpi dark fuscous, sprinkled with black ; head, anteniise and thorax 

 even dark fuscous; abdomen ocher fuscous, lightest on posterior segments. Fore 

 wings fuscous at base, half along inner margin, and ou outer field, except to- 

 wards apex, the rest light gray; the whole wiug much sprinkled with black and 

 marked with black ou veins, as well as with intermediate black strise ; inuel- 

 line indistinct, waved; outer line more distinct, finely dentate, somewhat sinu- 

 ous, edged within with blackish. Hind wings pellucid whitish to fuscous. 

 Discal spots coalesced into a heavy black dash. 



Texas. Dr. Snellen has received it from Curacao, West Indies. 

 Larva a borer in Yucca and Asave. 



