AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 99 



long, obliquely ascending, a little bent and recurved at tips. Expanse, 26 to 

 28 m. m. 



Habitat. — Pennsylvania, Virginia. 



The broad median shade is characteristic of the present and follow- 

 ing species. Rubbed specimens easily lose the narrow ordinary lines, 

 leaving the diffuse median shade and subterminal line alone evident. 



Herminia longilabris, Grote. — % 9 • — Slighter and more slender 

 than H. serraticornis ; coloration and ornamentation similar. Male antennae 

 lengthily pectinate; in both sexes relatively short. Labial palpi very long, 

 projected forwards, divaricate. Median lines narrow, shaped as in H. serrati- 

 cornis, but more even. Median shade diffuse and prominent; subterminal 

 line more linear, less angulated than in H. serraticornis. Beneath more yel- 

 lowish, brighter stained, with a straighter and fainter external and a propin- 

 quitous bent and distinct interior line. Male fore tibiae not tufted. Expanse, 

 23 to 26 m. m. 



Habitat. — Pennsylvania, Virginia. 



Very easily distinguished by the above characters. When, by any 

 accident, the palpi are broken off, the insect looks very much like a 

 Geometer. 



RENIA, Guenee. 



Renia alutalis, Grote. — 9 . — Brown. Primaries pale leather brown, 

 evenly colored. T. a. line straight, single, linear, faint, in the 'J, probably 

 more distinct. Beniform concolorous, with two black dots, the lower the larger. 

 Median shade even, diffuse, apparent below reniform. T. p. line linear, irregu- 

 lar waved, marked on costa, else faint. Subterminal line determinate, consist- 

 ing of a strongly marked preceding blackish shade, shaped as in allied species, 

 and a faint following line. Terminal series of nervular dots distinct. Second- 

 aries fuscous, paler within, crossed by two faint lines, corresponding to the t. p. 

 and s. t. lines of the primaries as usual, with the even terminal border darkest 

 and the space between the lines (corresponding with the subterminal space of 

 fore wings) the palest. Palpi projected; thorax concolorous with primaries. 

 Legs brownish with the tibiae blackish. Beneath, both wings resemble upper 

 surface of secondaries. Expanse 32 mm. 



Habitat. — Philadelphia. (Bunte). 



This species has the outline of R. brevirostralis, 9 , is perhaps a little 

 larger and differently colored. I regret not to know the % , as in this 

 genus both sexes should be observed, but I can have no doubt that it 

 belongs here. 



Reilia plenilinealis, Grote.— 9 .— Ochreous brown shaded with black- 

 ish brown from the costa downwardly. Ornamentation distinct; lines black- 

 ish. T. a. line even, gently sinuate. Median shade diffuse, nearly straight, 

 obscuring the reniform which is indicated by two superposed black dots some- 

 times fused into a black lunate mark. T. p. line fine, regularly lunulated, but 



