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proportionally a little shorter than usual. Female palpi long, projected straight! y 

 forward, third joints divaricate. The sexes are alike in color, but the female 

 primaries arc a little deeper toned and the lines are less distinct except the sub- 

 terminal. The primaries have a peculiar clotted appearance less from a sparse 

 sprinkling of black scales than from the fact that little is usually perceivable of 

 the lines than a series of distinct black nervular dots. Median shade more or 

 less evident below the reniform, diffuse. Ordinary spots but little apparent, pale, 

 of the usual shape ; reniform with two black dots, but these are sometimes want- 

 ing and sometimes the spot is incompletely edged with dark scales. Sub-ter- 

 minal line consisting of ageminate series of dots with a paler included shade; 

 the line becomes more or less continuous towards costa. Secondaries paler than 

 primaries with two tolerably evident and continuous transverse lines and a ter- 

 minal series of black points as on primaries. Expanse 30 to 32 mm. 



Habitat. — Pennsylvania, Alabama. Not unusual. Its pale Her- 

 minia-like color and dotted ornamentation render it very recognisable. 



11. Renia hi rial is. m. — % O. — Compared with R. brevirostralis the male 

 antennae are longer. The position of the longer palpi does not differ between 

 the sexes as much as usual, since in the male these are less obliquely porrected. 

 This species is dull purplish griseous, evenly colored, with obliterate ornamen- 

 tation. The ordinary spots are pale, yellowish and of the usual appearance ; in 

 all my % specimens without dots ; my single female has them distinctly con- 

 nected. M. shade faint. The t. p. and sub-terminal lines barely perceptible ; 

 darker, irregular. Terminal lines as in R. brevirostralis but on secondaries 

 mere continuous. Expanse 32 to 34 mm. 



Habitat. — Pennsylvania ; Texas. The Texas specimen (Belfrage 

 leg.) does not differ except by being a little darker and more distinctly 

 marked. This species is but little larger than R. brevirostralis; the 

 color is dull, obscure and faded looking. The t. p. line when perceiv- 

 able is narrow, irregular, much as in R. discoloralis. The subterminal 

 line is usually more apparent and is indicated by dotted aggregations 

 of dark scales. The whole insect is very inconspicuously marked- 

 The male antennae are rather noticeably pale colored. 



12. Renia restrictalis, m. — % 9 • — The narrowest species known to me. 

 Glossy purplish blackish, darker than R. larvalis. Antennae as usual, but the 

 female palpi are shorter and notably porrected, more so than in the male, in 

 which sex they agree in appearance with R. larvalis. Lines indistinct, except 

 sub-terminal which consists of a series of small equal double dots (the outer 

 faint) with pale included shade, much as in R. brevirostralis. Ordinary spots 

 small, as usual yellowish ; reniform in all my specimens without dots. Second- 

 aries nearly equally dark and coneolorous with primaries with tolerably evident 

 transverse lines. The sexes do not differ in color, but as in R. brevirostralis and 

 R. larvalis, the male wings are a little narrower, primaries more pointed at the 

 tips, while in the female the wings are fuller, the external ma-gins more round- 

 edly exerted. Expanse 27 to 28 mm. 



Habitat. — Pennsylvania. This species reminds one a little of Aglossa. 



