AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 23 



blackish edging line; from the course of the t. p. line, these two nearly parallel 

 lines are divaricate at costa. The sub-terminal space between these two lines 

 is blackish, darker than the wing elsewhere, free from pale scales at the sides. 

 Terminal line a series of blackish interspaceal marks followed by whitish scales. 

 Fringes concolorous with terminal space. Secondaries resembling primaries; the 

 median shade line obsoletely (not always perceptibly) continued. Thet. p. and 

 subterminal line are here more or less obviously continued from the primaries, 

 as is the terminal line. Beneath almost without markings; faint dark discal 

 shade dots and a more or less evident darker median line on hind wings. Ex- 

 panse 30 to 34 mm. 



Central Alabama; June and August. Quite common, entering the 

 house to light. In this and preceding genus I take a slight tubercle 

 on each side behind and very close to the eye as ocelli. 



PLEOSECTYPTERA, m. 



The single species hitherto described has been referred toHeliothis. 

 It belongs however to Guenee's Quadrifidae or Packard's sub-family 

 Catocalinae. Fore wings 12 veined : veins 3, 4 at base, divaricate ; 5 from 

 incomplete cross vein ; costal veins aggregated ; 8 thrown off shortly 

 from 9 to apex ; 9 crossing 7 and thus forming a small accessory cell 

 above disc from which 6 is thrown off below ; 6, 7, 8, divaricate ; 11 

 out of centre of m. nervure to costa, beyond it the nervure is a little 

 bent; 10 out of accessory cell near extremity, here 9, 10, 11, run 

 idosely together. Hind wings with vein 5 equally strong. Male fore 

 wings beneath with a tuft of rigid hairs directed upward on vein 2 and 

 a second above on median nervure. Legs finely scaled, % hind tibiae 

 bent, with a long external pencil of hair, middle and hind tibiae finely 

 spurred. Palpi hanging, divaricate; maxillae moderate, antennae simple 

 to the naked eye, % with fine and short bristles. Body linear, closely 

 scaled, abdomen a little longer than secondaries, 9 pointed, %> with 

 swollen genitals. The species resemble Geometridae and are bright 

 colored. 



5. Pleonectyptera pyralis, Subner sp.— % $ .— Head and collar dark 

 purplish lead color, discolorous with thorax and abdomen which are, yellow. 

 Wings with corresponding ornamentation and color, yellow to thet. p. common 

 line, beyond which they are dark reddish as are the fringes, less completely so 

 in % . On these broad reddish margins may be seen a series of dots composed 

 of black and white scale points, the common sub-terminal line; a dark apical 

 streak; the t. p. line is yellow centered, geminate, its inner line blackish, 

 acutely projected opposite the disc, oblique. M. shade and t. a. line continued, 

 narrow, faint, blackish ; former running just within the clouded reniform; or- 

 bicular a small black dot. Median shade continued across hind wings, faint, 

 very near the equally faint discal streak. Beneath, the body and wings are 

 stained with bright orange-red. % Thorax white. Three black continuous ri- 



