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ward, narrowing- to a point; the other from basal third eurves 

 outward and upward to a point after having- reached the fold. 

 These .spots are narrowly margined with silvery yellow. A third 

 indistinct, triangular, costal, light-brown spot has this margination 

 wider and is followed b)^ a small whitish spot. Tip of wing- l)lack; 

 cilia drab with a bunch of dark hairs in the middle. Hind-wings 

 under 1, trapezoidal, apex produced, termen emarginate, dark gray, 

 cilia silvery yellow. Legs yellow, on the outside barred with black. 



Venation. — Fore-wings: 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 6 separate.^ 

 Hind-wings: 8 veins, all separate. 



Alar expansion, 11.2 to 11.8 mm. 



Very near A. 'roseosuffttseUa Clemens, but larger and without any 

 trace of red coloration. 



Described from 6 females, reared from Ivdffutoiccn.s, c(jllected l)y 

 Dr. Dyar at Palm Beach, Florida. 



Type.—^o. 4932, U.S.N.M. 



The larva when full grown is about 12 nun. long, very active, slen- 

 der, dark purple, with 8 white wavy, interrupted, longitudinal lines; 

 underside dark green; head j^ellow, with l)lack eye-spots; it feeds in 

 a slight web among the leaves. Moth issued March lU-20. 



APROAEREMA Durrant= AN ACAM PSIS (Curtis) Meyrick. 



APROAEREMA CROTOLARIELLA, new species. 



(Plate I, fig. 2.) 



Antennae |, sligntly serrated, ])luish ))lack, with a thin, white, lon- 

 gitudinal line on basal third. La})ial palpi long, slender, smooth, 

 curved; second joint somewhat thickened, third joint a little longer 

 than second, pointed; ])luish black; second joint with apex white, third 

 with three thin, white, longitudinal lines. Tongue moderate, scaled. 

 Head, face, and thorax uniformly bluish l)lack. Fore-wings bluish 

 black, with sparse lighter blue metallic scales intermixed, especially 

 toward apex; cilia dark gray. Hind-wings gray, with purple reflec- 

 tions, cilia 2. Abdomen black, with purple reflections; legs bluish 

 black, with tarsi anntdated with white. 



Venatifm. — Fore-wings: 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, out of 7. Hind- 

 wings: 8 veins, 2 and 3 connate, 6 approximate to -i, and 7 long 

 stalked; apex produced, termen sinuate. 



Alar expansion 8.2 to 8.8 nun. 



' Lord Walsingham, in his West Indian Microlepdoptera (Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 

 Jan., 1897, p. 66), has ])]aced A. roseosuffusella Clemens eind A. pn(III)uri<IeU(i Zeller 

 in a division of ArisloteHa, as he defines this genus, which has vein 6 out of vein 7 

 in forewing. This is a mistake, vein 6 being separate; both species, as well as the 

 present species, A. ivic Busck, belong to Aristotelia proper in the restricted sense in 

 which Dr. Edward Meyrick uses it in Handbook of British Lepidoptera, 1895. 



