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are sharply cut. In the male volucris the middle tibiae are outwardly 

 thickened by hairy and scaly vestiture, while in the new species there 

 is little or no surplus vestiture. 



Chytolita fulicalis n. sp. 



Ground color dull mouse-gray or smoky. Head and thorax concolorous, abdo- 

 men hardly lighter. Primaries with the median lines single, only a little darker, 

 slender, continuous. T. a. line a little irregular, as a whole with a very even 

 outcurve. T. p. line also irregular, with a moderate, even outcurve over cell and 

 an almost equal incurve below. S. t. line punctiform, very obscure, the spots 

 interspaceal, parallel with the outer margin. A series of very small, blackish 

 terminal lunules. Eeniform black or blackish, moderate in size, subluiiate, not 

 definitely outlined. Secondaries hardly paler than the primaries, with a narrow 

 smoky median transverse line. Beneath : primaries smoky, yellowish along 

 costa, with a smoky extra-median line. Secondaries yellowish, powdery, with a 

 dusky extra-median line and a discal spot. 



Expands .96 inches := 24 mm. 



Hab. — Tennessee, August 1st, S. T. Kemp. 



A single male in good condition. This is the smallest of our 

 species and the most obscurely marked, differing at once from both 

 the others by the dark smoky ground which has a dash of reddish. 



