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line of the median shade of the primaries are more faintly continuous over the 

 hind wings. Beneath both wings are pale ochrey-grey, with triple exterior 

 faint and denticulate transverse lines and with the internal margins very pale. 

 Body parts above concolorous with the violet-grey of the wings. Expanse 

 26—27 m. m. 



Habitat. — Pennsylvania. 



Easily recognized by the three black marks on the subterniinal line 

 of primaries, reminding us somewhat of Drasteria. 



Spargaloma u nib ri fascia, Grote. — % ?. — Pale brownish or smoky 

 testaceous grey, dust color; lines dark. T. a. line somewhat oblique even, out- 

 wardly exerted. The median space shows a broad blackish shade contiguous 

 to the t. p. line, discontinued within the line superiorly. Discal dot3 minute. 

 Outside of the t. p. line a fainter brownish (in one specimen, Texas, somewhat 

 plumbeous) shade runs from costa before apex to internal margin, meeting t. 

 p. line opposite the cell where the first inner black shade is discontinued. Sub- 

 terminal line, from apex to just within internal angle, dentate with pale pre- 

 ceding shade. A fine blackish terminal line equally or more distinctly con- 

 tinued on hind wings. Hind wings paler from the base to the double distinct 

 minutely dentate divaricate subterminal line with an interior and preceding 

 pale shade. Three lines cross the middle field of the wing of which the central 

 line is most distinct, the inner line includes a discal mark. Beneath with an 

 ochrey cast; the ornamentation of upper surface incompletely reproduced. 

 Above the primaries show a series of anteapieal costal pale points and the 

 transverse lines are incepted from dark dots. Expanse 22 to 25 m. m. 



Habitat. — Philadelphia; Texas (Belfrage leg. 24th March). 



The Texas specimen is smallest and best marked. 



CLEPTOmTA, Grote, 



The male antennae are ciliate, thickening a little toward and bent at 

 basal third. Head rather large ; clypeal surface prominent. Labial 

 palpi twice the highth of the front, free, porrected, bent over, sickle- 

 shaped, closely scaled, 3d joint half as long as second with which it is 

 continuous. Fore legs rather short; fore tibiae relatively stout, tarsi 

 slender, femora fringed with long testaceous hair. Hind tibiae with a 

 disproportionately long middle spur and shorter unequal terminal 

 spurs. Size small; wings like Zanclognatha in shape; primaries with 

 nearly parallel costal and and internal margins; hind margin nearly 

 straight. The ornamentation is like that of Zanclognatha, but the 

 lines are black, broad and contrasting. I have only one specimen 

 which I cannot examine neurationally, but it is useless to refer it to 

 Herminia of Authors, a genus that must be resolved into many. 



Cleptomita atriliueella, Grote.— % .—Pale testaceous brownish. Pri. 

 maries crossed by three black broad distinct lines. The transverse anterior 



TRANS. AMER. ENT. SOC. (39) JANUARY, 1873. 



