AMERICAN LEPIDOPTKRA. 15 



and is rounded inferiorly. Below this costal patch, are two or three 

 j^uiall testaceous spots, frai^nients of a transverse band and somewhat 

 coalesed in certain individuals. Second.iries, concolorous with prima- 

 ries, shaded basally with paler scales, these latter allowing a median 

 dark irregular line, margining the paler portion of the wing externally, 

 to become obvious ; medially, the costa is diffusedly testaceous ; fringes, 

 pale. Undersurface of anterior wings, resembling upper surface ; the 

 internal margin is diffusedly paler, testaceous. P.o.sterior wings, largely 

 testaceous, shaded with fuscous externally; a sinuate dark subterminal 

 line, continued from costa to just before internal margin above the 

 angle; a sub-basal, similar line, which is curved outwardly, and appa- 

 rently joins the sub-terminal line at the middle of the wing; the space 

 enclosed in this manner superiorly between the two lines, is, perhaps, 

 more yellowish than elsewhere, and corresponds to the paler shade of 

 the upper surface. 



E.ijKinac. S , 9 ? f*-8*^ inch. Length of hodji, 0.40 inch. 



Ilahitiit. — Atlantic District. (Penna. !) 



Allied to the common Asopia olinalis, Lrderer, (^Pt/ralls ollnah's, 

 Gueneej, but k smaller species, with a different coloration and very 

 distinctive ornamentation. Both Asopia olinalis, and Asopia costalis. 

 Fabr. sp., occur in New York State. Of the former, Asopia trento- 

 nalis, Lvilcrcr^ is probably a synonym. The latter is regarded as 

 identical with the European species. 



Asopia anthoeoioides. n. sp. (Plate 2, fig. 9, 9 )• 



Head, thorax and abdomen, pale dull brownish above and beneath; 

 head and appendages, a little darker; legs, concolorous; anterior and 

 middle femora, a little richer colored. 



Anterior wings, pale brownish, neatly defined into separate fields by 

 the narrow transverse lines and markings. A pale, somewhat greyish, 

 narrow, basal space. Outside of this, and neatly defined by narrow 

 marginal lines, is a transverse oval rich olivaceous brown patch, nar- 

 rowing to costal and internal margins. The median space, immedi- 

 ately beyond this dark sub-basal space, is, for half its width, paler than 

 the wing elsewhere; a faint median linear shade line, between whi^h. 

 and a narrow clear post-median line, the outer half of the median space 

 is darker shaded and more brownish. The post-median line and the 

 pale line margining the dark sub-basal patch outwardly, remind us of 

 the transverse posterior and transverse anterior lines in Anthtecia. 

 The post-median line is sub-sinuate; beyond it, the terminal space of 

 the wing is shaded with brownish, a little mixed with reddish, from 



