AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 93 



to Zeller, Guenee or LeConte. It requires a singular obtuseness to be 

 "indignant" at a procedure which at least always recognizes the origi- 

 nal description and a singular assurance to demand in the same breath 

 a suppression of both description and describer. 



JMADOPA, Stephens. 



Jtladopa interpunota, Grote.— % 9 .—Primaries dark shaded pearly 

 grey, finely irrorate with black scales, with three nearly equidistant transverse 

 even brownish lines preceded by pale coincident shades. The first line nearer 

 the second, while the third is slightly arcuate, continued from apices to internal 

 margin within the angle. Between the first and second lines a black dot on 

 the disc, the orbicular. Beyond, but approximate to the second line, a larger 

 black dot, the reniform. A series of minute interspaceal terminal dots. These 

 are more continuous on the pale secondaries, which show a discal dot beneath. 

 Legs darker than the body parts and abdomen above. Expanse 20 to 22 m. m. 



Habitat. — Central Alabama. 



Outline and ornamentation of the European M. salicalis, but smaller, 

 a little darker and at once distinguished by the discal dots. 



BliEPTINA, Guenee. 



Two species from the Atlantic district and the Gulf are contained 

 in the collection. The antennae are simply pubescent, the palpi 

 closely scaled, held free from the front, elevated and recurved at the 

 tips, without sexual characters. The outline of the primaries is simi- 

 lar to Renia, but notably less exerted on external margin, while the 

 costal edge is more depressed. The coloration is pale purplish-grey 

 and the species in appearance resemble Agrotis, Caradrina, etc., while 

 the ornamentation is but slightly modified from that of Renia. 



Bleptina caratlrinalis. Guenee. — % J.— Rather pale brownish grey, 

 smoothly scaled, with a very light purplish shade, lines brownish; markings 

 not very distinct except the subterminal line. Basal half line perceivable; 

 t. a. line improminent, single, shorty waved. Median shade diffuse, continued, 

 usually more prominent in the male, oblique, a little sinuate, touching the 

 reniform. This latter, with the reduced orbicular, is usually black and con- 

 trasting in the female, whereas in the male it is deep yellowish, stained, with 

 au included scale dot and ringed. T. p. line roundedly projected opposite the 

 disc, finely dentate or waved, tending to mark nervular dots. Subterminal 

 line geminate, even, prominent, with a stained pale central shade and accom- 

 panied by lateral brownish shadings which tend to become nervular on termi- 

 nal space. The line is roundedly outwardly bent over the median nervules. 

 Terminal interspaceal black dots; fringes pale. Secondaries paler towards the 

 base, dark along external margin, with double dark shaded transverse lines, 

 relieved by a paler external shade. Terminal black points and fringes as on 

 primaries. Beneath the wings resemble secondaries above; discal dots dis- 



