214 GEO. D. HULST. 



This insect varies very considerably in general appearance. The 

 reddish color is often entirely wanting in fresh specimens. Those 

 from Texas and Colorado have, as a rule, the reddish always present 

 and deepened in tone. The eastern examples incline to a more faded 

 ochreous appearance; one of Packard's types is of this color, the 

 other rosy. 



2. P. bipartitella Rag., Diag. N. A. Pbyc. p. 19, 1887.— Female expands 

 15 mm. Fore wings with costal half, except on hind margin, whitish, dusted 

 with blackish ; dorsal half and hind margin reddish ochreous, finely dusted with 

 black posteriorly, the dividing line blackish towards base. Hind wings yellow- 

 ish, clouded with fuscous on the margin. 



North Carolina. 

 / I do not know this species. I would suppose it to be close to, if 

 not identical with, the more ochreous variations of hamatica. 



HOMOSASSA* n. geu. 



(Type ella Hulst) 



Labial palpi ascending, slender, filiform, end member short; max- 

 illary palpi filiform ; front swollen on each side, a perpendicular 

 groove in middle ; tongue very small ; antennae crenulate, pubescent; 

 ocelli present; legs rather short, tibial epiphysis longer than usual. 

 Genitalia of % : uncus a broad, rounded plate like Cayuga; harpe 

 bilobed, the upper part transformed into a long, stout, curved spine; 

 a short stout spine at base ; lower plate wanting. Fore wings rounded, 

 rather broad; fore wings 10 veins, 3 and 4 separate, 5 wanting, 10 

 separate ; hind wings 7 veins, 2 at angle, 3 and 4 long stemmed, 8 

 stemmed with 7, long. 



1. H. ella Hulst. Ento. Am. iii, 138, 1887 (£i)/tesf«rt).— Expands 14—18 mm. 

 Head parts very dark fuscous. Thorax very dark fuscous in front, lighter be- 

 hind. Abdomen orange fuscous on anterior segments, light fuscous ou posterior. 

 Fore wings even blackish brown, with a costal stripe between subcostal and edge, 

 clay white in color, with a slight intermixture of brown scales, beginning at base 

 running to a point, and becoming obsolete just before apex. The division be- 

 tween the two colors of the wing is sharp, and they stand in strong contrast. 

 The males seem to be slightly lighter in the prevailing color of the fore wiug. 

 Hind wings dark fuscous. Beneath dark fuscous. 



Florida. May. 



Mr. Ragonot catalogues this as an Anerastla. It is sufficiently 

 distinct from that genus by the presence of ocelli and the absence 

 of a frontal tubercle. 



•■• An ancient tribe of Indians in Florida. 



