306 AUG. R. GROTE. 



Renia (centralis or rcstrictalis), but the palpal and antennal struc- 

 ture at once separates the present form. 



With but two specimens before me, in good condition, I do not wish 

 to destroy my types for the sake of describing the neuration, which 

 probably does not differ greatly from that of Renia. 



Tetanolita lixalis, Grate. — % 9- — Silky blackish. Primaries with a 

 faint purplish reflection. T. a. line indistinct, linear, darker than the ground 

 color of the wing, medially with a rounded outward inclination. Reniform 

 clear pale yellowish in both my specimens without included dots, indistinctly 

 darker ringed, contrasting. T. p. line linear, dark, finely dentate, indicated on 

 costa by pale scales, a little projected opposite the cell. Subterminal line dis- 

 tinctly indicated by small whitish lunulated included dots, a little outwardly 

 projected over median nervules. A very fine terminal line; fringes concolor- 

 ous, neatly interrupted with pale scales, The neat ornamentation may be 

 clearly seen against the almost uniform blackish grouud of the primaries 

 with attention. Hind wings much paler, smoky-whitish, with two darker 

 median lines, approximating towards internal margin, and faint discal mark; 

 terminal line and fringes as on primaries. Beneath blackish, paling towards 

 internal margins, with distinct discal marks and double neatly and minutely 

 dentated transverse lines. Head and appendages, thorax and legs outward - 

 ly blackish, concolorous; abdomen paler. Tarsi doited with pale scales. E.e- 

 panse 20 m. m. 



Habitat. — Alabama; Texas. 



MEGACHYTA, Grote. 

 The single species differs by the antennal structure, in which, as in 

 other characters, it resembles Chytolita. 



Jlegachyta lituralis, {Habner).— %^. — Pale brown, the transverse 

 lines marked on costa and very wide apart. Basal half line indicated ; two 

 black liturate spots on costa at inception of t. a. and t. p. lines and a third at 

 apices, the largest, without the inception of the pale subterminal. T. a. line 

 black, very narrow and faint, even or nearly so, often obliterate. Reniform a 

 narrow lunate black mark sometimes resolved into superposed dots. T. p. line 

 black, guttiform, of the usual shape, resolved into nervular black dots con- 

 nected very finely and faintly by a paler line. Subterminal line whitish, 

 formed by whitish lunulations with blackish interior shade points, even on 

 costa before the black apical shade. A fine disconnected terminal black line 

 more continuous on the hind wings. Secondaries concolorous with two trans- 

 verse slightly irregular divaricate parallel darker shaded lines with paler 

 outer edging. Fringes concolorous. Beneath both wings with distinct com- 

 mon narrowly lunulated transverse marks and fine interrupted terminal line 

 as on upper surface. Expanse 22 to 28 m. m. 



Habitat. — Pennsylvania to Texas. 



