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tending to be a little broader marked on costa. Subterminal obliquely rigid, 

 linear, running from the extreme apices to internal margin within the angle, 

 without accompanying paler shades, single. Usually this line is obliterate 

 before the apices. Apical fringe touched with dark olivaceous; costal edge at 

 apex with a small whitish mark. Secondaries pulverulent, rather darker than 

 usual, with double transverse lines, the outer with external pale shade and 

 angulated before anal angle; discal mark faint. Palpi recurved in both sexes, 

 second joint bent, appearing a little shorter in the female. Male fore tibiae 

 with a brush of blackish hairs not retractile as in the preceding species. Ex- 

 panse, 28 to 32, m. m. 



Habitat. — New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia. 



Superficially this species resembles the European H. barhalis. The 

 palpi are, however, differently held and shorter. The 2nd joint is 

 straight in H. morbidalis and H. barbalis, where, in the female, the 

 palpi are nearly straightly projected. The subterminal line is simple 

 in H. pedipilalis; the lines are finer and the secondaries darker than 

 in the European H. barbalis. 



Herminia crnralis, Guencc—% 9 .—Pale ochreous brownish or dark 

 testaceous, with a light reflection. Wings proportionately short.; external 

 margin of primaries evenly rounded. All the lines dark, narrow, distinct. 

 T. a. line perpendicular, even. T. p. line of the usual shape, nearly even, a 

 little notched on the extra discal projection. Subterminal rigid, distinct, even, 

 continued, running from costa before the apex to internal margin within the 

 angle, succeeded by a very narrow, pale lined shade. Minute marginal linear 

 points. Secondaries with double continuous lines. Beneath the wings are pale 

 with powdery darker scales and double propinquitous powdery lines ; black 

 discal dots on both wings. Male fore tibiae with a fascicle of long scales, out- 

 wardly stained with blackish. Male antennae nodose. Expanse, 27 to 30 m. m. 



Habitat. — Pennsylvania. 



In color and appearance this species resembles the European H. tarsi- 

 plumalis, but is shorter winged and brighter tinted. As remarked by 

 M. Gruenee, the course of the t. p. line is similar to that in the much 

 slighter H. grisealis. 



Herminia marcidilinea, Grote.— % 9. —A little larger and stouter 

 than H. cruralis. Similarly colored and ornamented, but the squamation is 

 more pulverulent. Lines hardly so distinct; t. a. line narrowly dentated or 

 notched. Subterminal line running as in H. cruralis, but the line itself is ob- 

 solete, or nearly so, and an even, well marked, very pale shade replaces it, 

 running across both wings. In its secondary sexual characters this species 

 agrees with H. cruralis. Expanse, 31 to 33 m, m. 



Habitat. — Pennsylvania, Alabama. 



Closely allied to H. cruralis, but distinguishable from the different 



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