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JOHX B. SMITH. 
ter mostly flattened scales, collar not crested. The palpi with coarse 
vestiture and small terminal joint. Antenme at base with a tiift of 
hair, serrated in the males, with bristle tuftings. The thorax quad- 
rate, laterally produced at the angles, with smooth anterior and pos- 
terior tufts, abdomen untufted. Primaries short, not greatly widen- 
ing, apices not acute, margin evenly rounded, fringes scalloped. 
This is von Heinemann’s definition, and it agrees well with the 
European species, but not at all with the American species referred 
to the genus. Dryobata opina Mr. Grote now refers to Valeri)i, while 
stiymaia is utterly unlike the European species. The wing form is 
alisolutely different, the fringes are only feebly sinuate and not scal- 
loped, and the abdomen is prominently tufted ; but I know at 
jiresent no other genus to which stigmata could be better referred, and 
as I believe it has congeners in other genera I will simply call atten- 
tion to the fact, here, preliminary to the description of three species 
agreeing better with the description of the genus, but very unlike 
stigmata in every respect, and, though themselves congeneric, and 
with the same habitus, differing quite strongly in antennal structure. 
The species are ash-gray, with a reddish or brownish suffusion, 
])owdery, all the maculation well marked. The ordinary spots are 
well sized, and as a whole the species have a very decided resem- 
blance to Litholomia napee in type of maculation, emphasized by the 
more or less prominent, rigid, dark, median shade or line, which 
forms the most obvious ornamental feature. One of the species 
which I had dubbed Hadena latifascia, perhaps in one or two collec- 
tions, I find is Prof. French’s Homohadena elda. It has nothing, 
whatever, in common with Homohadena, and this species is perhaps 
nearest of all to tyjiical form of the genus. 
I>i\yobata elda French. 
1887 Can. Ent. xix, 5, Homohndena. 
The male autennge are di.stiuctly and well pectinated; in the female the joints 
are marked. A broad brown shade with blackish defining lines fills the space 
between the ordinary spots, and below the median vein its outer border extends 
along the t. p. line. 
Four specimens in the National Museum collection (through C. 
V. Riley) are from Nevada County, Cal., Septemher, collected by 
Koebele, and Mr. Edwards has also sent it to me labeled Sierra 
Nevada, Cal. 
I>ryobata rectiTai^icia u. sp. — Eather dark bluish ashen. Collar with a 
broad median black line. Basal half line distinct, pale, obsoletely geminate; a 
short, black, longitudinal basal line extending to the half line, the inclosed costal 
