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Stantira variegata Wlk., C. B. M. pt. 27, p. 76, 1863.— % reddish cine- 

 reous, whitish cinereous beneath. Head and thorax blackish cinereous. Wings 

 with black marginal points; fore wings irregularly blackish cinereous along the 

 costa, which has black points towards the tip; hind wings whitish cinereous 

 with a black discal spot. Length of body 6 lines, of the wings 12 lines. 



St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson Bay, Can. 

 In the generic description of Stantlra Mr. Walker says the pro- 

 boscis is short, the palpi porrect, the antennae smooth. 



Ciitiiia albopiiiictella Wlk., C. B. M. pt. 35, p. 1735, 1866.— -^ hoary, 

 with a slight Eeneous tinge. Wings pale fawn color, slightly seneous tinged; 

 marginal points black; fore wings with white veins; costal space diffusedly 

 streaked with white; a diffuse, zigzag, white submarginal line; fringe with a 

 white streak opposite each black point; under side diflFusedly whitish along the 

 costa, and along exterior border. Hind wings with a whitish tipped fringe; 

 underside whitish, with fawn colored speckles, and with a black dot in the disc. 

 Length of body 6 lines, of wings 12 lines. 



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In the generic description Mr. Walker says : proboscis rather long 

 and stout, palpi slender, obliquely ascending ; antennae stout pubes- 

 cent. 



^iiubrita abrostella Wlk., C B. M. pt. 35, p. 1744, 1866.— J shistaceous, 

 stout, cinei-eous beneath. Palpi porrect, stout, squamous, as long as the breadth 

 of the head; third joint lanceolate, about one-fourth the length of the second. 

 Antennae and legs stout. Wings broad ; fore wings acute, brovvn speckled, varied 

 with ferruginous and with whitish ; a large, ochraceous, whitish, basal spot, bor- 

 dered on the outer side by two undulating black lines ; a zigzag, black, auteme- 

 dial line; a double, slightly curved, outward black, postmedial line, which forms 

 an acute angle near costa, a white point and a white spot in the disc, the latter 

 including a reniform brown mark; a broad, zigzag, whitish submarginal line- 

 two black streaks extending from the exterior border opposite the angle of the 

 post-medial line; a row of black points, which are very near the exterior border. 

 Hind wings seneous; marginal line ferruginous; fringe whitish, interlined with 

 pale brown. Length of body 5 Hues, of wings 13 lines. 



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Peinpelia virgatella Clem., Proc. Acad. N. Sci. Phil. 1860, p. 205.— 

 Brownish luteous; fore wings varied with grayish toward the base and tip, with 

 dull pale reddish at base and middle of inner margin ; on the middle of the 

 costa is a blackish blotch, containing a short line of the same hue, and opposite 

 a whitish angulated line with few black spots exterior to the costal line ; a blotch 

 of the same hue towards the base of the submedian nervure, and a pale, grayish, 

 subtermina! line, margined internally by a blackish line, and externally by black 

 streaks on the nervules; the internal black margin is edged on the costa and 

 middle of the wing with pale grayish ; hinder margin spotted with black, cilia 

 grayish fuscous. Hind wings pale brownish ; labial palpi erect ; maxillary palpi 

 with a short pencil of hairs ; tongue long. 



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