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ill the male. The male antenna; are finely ciliated. The anal angle 

 of the j)nmaries is somewhat retracted, the outer margin thereby 

 slightly angulated on vein 3. 



IVKl'KOXIA Iliiti. 



Moderate, plump species, related to Charceas Steph., but differing 

 by the short, densely clothed thorax, which has both anterior and 

 posterior tufts ; by the short, membraneous tongue ; the stout, more 

 or less pectinated male antennte, and the short male lateral pieces 

 (harpes) which do not have the inner angle j)roduced hook-like. 

 The eyes are hairy. 



The larvffi are plump, cylindrical, shining, with corneous protho- 

 racic and anal shields; dark brown in color, with narrow, yellowish, 

 flesh-colored lateral lines. They feed in May on grass sprouts and 

 roots and pupate in the earth. 



The above characterization is a free translation from Lederer, and 

 with it agrees a species now before me. It may be added that the 

 primaries are broad, rather short, trigonate, with a marked, rounded 

 apex and oblique outer margin. 



The occurrence of this European genus in our fauna is interesting. 

 It is not a widely distributed one, the species are not numerous, and 

 it is rather aberrant than ordinary in the combination of structural 

 characters. Such genera are rarely represented in widely separated 

 localities, and the question of their origin always gives food for 

 speculation. 



Neuronia ainericaiia u. sp. (PI. iii, fig. 3) — Ground color a sonsewhut 

 sordid liiteous gray, with black powderings. Head darker, even in color. Collar 

 yellowish inferiorly, above gray, white tipped. Patagiie centrally white, limited 

 by a black siibmarginal line, margin ash gray. Disc of thorax hiteons gray or 

 fuscous anteriorly, ashen gray posteriorly, the tuftings inconspicuous. Prima- 

 ries with all the veins prominently white marked, except through the s. t. space, 

 where they are black. Basal line incomplete, geminate, the defining line black- 

 ish, narrow, included space paler, more luteous; the line marked only on the 

 costa and through the submedian interspace. T. a. line geminate, incomplete, 

 marked on the costa by dots, in the submedian interspace by an outercurve, and 

 below the internal vein by an outward angle; the outer defining line is black, 

 the inner not contrasting, included space paler luteous and wliite powdered. T. 

 p. line geminate, the inner line black, feel)ly lunulate, the outer scarcely darker, 

 even, included space paler; in course the line bends sharply outward on the 

 costa and thence runs very evenly oblique, almost parallel with the outer margin 

 to its termination on the inner margin. S. t. line white, only a little irregular, 

 except that it is feebly dentated on veins 3 and 4 ; preceded by a well-marked 

 dusky shade, in which black sagittate spots further emphasize the line. A black 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXI MAKCH. 1894. 



