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tinct; primaries the darker. Palpi in both sexes pointed, recurved, rather 

 pale or testaceous colored. Expanse, 25 to 30 m. m. 



Habitat. — New York, Pennsylvania, Texas. 



The female has the lines, except the subterminal, less distinct 

 usually than the male and the ordinary spots often filled in with 

 black. The specimens of B. caradrinalis from the Middle States 

 measure 28 to 30 m. m. 



Bleptina inferior, Grote. — % £• — Darker and of a different hue com- 

 pared with B. caradrinalis. The reniform is creamy pale, as is the orbicular, 

 subobsoletely black ringed and shows an inferior black included dot. The 

 markings of its congener are reproduced by this smaller species but less dis- 

 tinctly. The color of the primaries is of a more bluish and darker grey, and 

 they are more uniformly colored, hardly darker shaded terminally. The sec- 

 ondaries are much darker, almost wholly blackish; the lines imperceptible or 

 obsolete. Beneath both wings blackish, the subterminal line alone barely per- 

 ceivable. Expanse, 24 to 26 m. m. 



Habitat. — Alabama, Texas. 



Three specimens ef B. caradrinalis (Belfrage legit) from Texas are 

 as small (25 m. m.) as B. inferior, but differ from B. inferior by their 

 color, the paler secondaries lined above and the characteristic appear- 

 ance of the ordinary spots in both sexes; in all of which they exactly 

 agree with the larger Northern specimens of their species. I have 

 fourteen specimens of B. caradrinalis and five of B. inferior before me, 

 all of which latter have their antennal stem a little darker above com- 

 pared with B. caradrinalis. 



HERMINIA, Treitschke. 



I refer to this genus nine species, specimens of which, from the At- 

 lantic district are contained in the collection before me. These fall 

 into two groups in a wide sense. The first six species have in com- 

 mon a more or less apparent crooking of the male antennal stem 

 towards the middle, where it is tufted. The structure of the labial 

 palpi is subject to slight specific modification, but, except in H. mor- 

 bidalis, the palpi do not afford any strong secondary sexual character. 

 In this species the palpi, with their straight 2d and reduced 3d article, 

 are directed upwardly, though not as strongly recurved as usual in 

 the male; while in the opposite sex they are projected forwards. This 

 character reminds us of Renia. In the remaining species the second 

 article is bent. In H. laevigata the male palpi seem a little more 

 densely scaled. In this group the species have a more or less strongly 

 expressed resemblance to certain European forms. The second group 

 consists of two small species which have the male antennae more or 



