AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 305 



Phalaenophana rtirigena, Grote. — % $, — Fresh specimens are ra- 

 ther bright and deep olivaceous testaceous grey. The species seems to lose 

 easily its deeper color and most of my specimens are faded pale dusty testace- 

 ous. T. a. line even, distinct, nearly perpendicular, a little outwardly arcuate, 

 followed by an outer dark shade, and with an inner quite pale and contrasting 

 shade which seems to precede the line, but in reality in fresh specimens is 

 seen to be the broad included shade of the t, a. line, since a very fine transverse 

 line may be detected before it. Median shade line continued, undulated, 

 linear. Orbicular a faint shaded point concolorous with the darker m. shade 

 and lines. Eeniform consisting of two black superposed sometimes connected 

 points surrounded by a pale shade; in its shape the spot is constricted out- 

 wardly. T. p. line tolerably distinct, shortly and evenly waved, nearly per- 

 pendicular and not exerted, followed by a clear pale shade, which, in reality, 

 is the included shade of the obsoletely geminate line. Inner portion of the 

 subterminal space pale and contrasting with the wider dark olivaceous portion 

 which is margined outwardly by the evident subterminal line. This latter is 

 inwardly somewhat acutely projected opposite the cell, running outwardly 

 again over median nervules, narrowly rivulous with a preceding pale shade. 

 Terminal space clearer griseous without olivaceous cast and with an obliquely 

 ascending series of interspaceal dark shade streaks to the apex ; the apical 

 streak alone usually evident, but sometimes these parallel interspaceal shades 

 are perceptible against the dark olivaceous subterminal coloration. A very 

 fine interspaceally lunulate subcontinuous black terminal line, continued on 

 hind wings. Secondaries more smoky, concolorous, with median and subter- 

 minal lines continuous with t. p. and s. t. lines of primaries. Beneath the 

 hind wings are basally pale, with distinct discal dot and approximate irregular 

 dark median lines. Both wings have blackish wide borders cut by the pale 

 subterminal shade. Primaries almost wholly dark with transverse lines only 

 visible on costa. Body parts concolorous; legs dark outwardly; tarsi dotted. 

 Expanse 23 — 25 m. m. 



Habitat. — New York (Hastings, June 18th); Pennsylvania. 



TETANOLITA, Grote. 

 A generic term proposed for a small blackish lustrous species re- 

 sembling in appearance the smaller species of Renia (centralis and re- 

 strictalis), but differing in antennal and palpal structure. The dispro- 

 portionately heavy labial palpi are like those in Helia and Epizeuxis, 

 divaricate, arcuate, loosely held and closely scaled. Maxillae moder- 

 ate. In the male the longer slender ciliate or finley bristled antennae 

 are provided with a slight exterior tuft of scales at rather within 

 basal third; in the female the shorter antcnnus is simple. The legs 

 are finely scaled; in the male the fore tibiae are thickly scaled, strongly 

 spurred on hind tibiae (in my only 9 specimen the legs are defec- 

 tive). In shape the wings are as in Renia (centralis) and unlike 

 Epizeuxis in the more produced apices. The ornamentation is like 



