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line a little exerted opposite the cell, subsinuate. Subterminal line with a 

 central atomical whitish line, a little irregular, well marked on costa, twice 

 slightly outwardly roundedly exerted on s. c. nervules and on s. m. nervules. 

 Secondaries like primaries; two lines cross the wings continuous with tbe t. p. 

 and subterminal lines of primaries and like these in appearance. The same 

 dark shade precedes the subterminal; within the inner line is a faint discal 

 streak. Beneath the wings are more distinctly lined. Two exterior common 

 lines cross the wings; the outer whitish, on the primaries even, apparently 

 minutely lunulated, on the secondaries prominently outwardly acutely pro- 

 jected opposite the cell; the inner dark and very approximate to the concolor- 

 ous discal marks, especially on the fore wings. Body concolorous. Legs dark; 

 tarsi pale, somewhat ochrey. Expanse 20 — 22 m. m. 



Habitat. — New York (Hastings, June 20th) ; Pennsylvania. Eigh- 

 teen specimens examined. 



Phalaenosiola oitinia, Grote. — %. — A single specimen indicates a 

 distinct species. Larger and of a paler brighter brown. Ornamentation of P. 

 larentioides, but the. t. p. line is more irregular and proportionally nearer the 

 subterminal. Median shade more diffuse, but the similar shade before the 

 subterminal in its congener is here reduced to a narrow limit, and appears 

 most prominent within the inflections of the line. The secondaries are more 

 uniformly dark and the pale edging of the subterminal line toward anal angle 

 more conspicuous. Beneath the two common lines are notably more propin. 

 quitous than in P. larentioides. On the primaries the faint discal dot is smaller 

 and much removed from the line, whereas in its congener the broader discal 

 mark is nearly absorbed by the line, which latter is more bent and narrower 

 in P. citima. The outer line on the hind wings is not projected and on both 

 wings less pale and continuous than in P. larentioides. Expanse 25 m. m. 



Habitat. — Virginia. 



RENIA, Guenee. 

 It will be easy to distinguish R. restrictalis from R. larvalis, with 

 which it agrees in ornamentation and general hue, if we observe the 

 greatly shorter and recurved labial palpi of the female In R. larvalis 

 the female labial palpi are extended forwards and are as long as in R. 

 brevirostralis $ . The £ antennus is shorter from the base to the 

 tuft in R. restrictalis than in R. larvalis : the form is narrower, the 

 general color darker and more glossy. It will be impossible to use 

 the labial palpi for generic characters in Renia, owing to their variable 

 length and position in nearly allied species. It is different with the 

 antennae ; all the species have that peculiar erect tuft in the male at 

 about apical third, beyond which the slender tips are curled ; from the 

 base to the tuft the male antennus is notably rigid. I have elsewhere 

 separated the species into two groups from the character of the trans- 



