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sharper than usual, anal angle well determined ; hind wings broad, 

 rounder on outer margin. Venation: fore wings 10 veins, 3 and 4 

 separate, 5 wanting, 10 stemmed with 8 and 9 ; hind wings 7 veins, 

 2 at angle, 3 and 4 stemmed, 5 wanting; cell short. 



1. D. edeiitella n. sp — Expands 15 mm. Labial palpi gray, mixed with 

 blackish scales; frout fuscous, tuft gray; thorax and abdomen fuscous; fore 

 wings fuscous gray, much marked with blackish on costal median space, and 

 outwardly; discal spots distinct ; basal line determined by dark shading; outer 

 line close to margin and parallel, grayish, broad, even, shaded on both sides 

 with blackish. Hind wings dark fuscous. 



S. Florida. April. 



PEORIA Rag. 



(Type hsematica Zell.) 

 Eag., Diag. N. A. Phyc. p. 19, 1887. 



Labial palpi horizontal, long, sw'ollen in the middle ; maxillary 

 palpi very small; tongue short; front rounded, broad; antennae 

 crenulate, pubescent, slightly or not at all bent, but with second 

 segment above base very long, and with a fine perpendicular line of 

 scales where bend should be; ocelli present, small. Fore wings 

 rounded, broad. Legs rather long, closely scaled, tarsi spinulated. 

 Genitalia of S : uncus broad, rounded, toothed within with two 

 spines; harpe broad, bilobed at end, the lower portion edged with 

 long hairs, making something of an anal tuft, the upper at upper 

 portion with a spine ; a double heavy spine at base of harpe, and 

 another within the base; lower plate wanting. Venation: fore wings 

 10 veins, 5 wanting; 8, 9 and ,10 long stemmed ; hind wings 7, veins, 

 2 at angle, 3 and 4 long stemmed, 7 and 8 stemmed. 



1. P. Iiscniatica Zell., Verb. Zool -Bot. Ges., Wien, 1872, p. 555 (Beit. i. 

 109), (Anerastia). 



roseateUa Pack., Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist, x, 270, 1873; Grote, Bull. U. S. 

 Geol. Snrv. iv, 704, 1878; N. A. Ento. i, 12, pi. ii, fig. 14, 1879. 



Expands 16 — 20 mm. Head and thorax dull yellow, more or less stained with 

 rosy brown. Fore wings with a pale yellow costal stripe running to a point not 

 reaching apex, otherwise the fore wings are dull roseate shading to fuscous or 

 blackish below the stripe, and to yellowish along inner margin. Hind wings 

 pale yellowish fuscous; all fringes yellowish. Beneath yellowish fuscous. 



Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Colorado, Ohio, 

 Illinois, Iowa. 



Prof Forbes has taken this insect at electric light from June 3d 

 at various times, to September 20th; the greater number being taken 

 in June. 



