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SCHINIA, lib. 



Eyes naked, globose; trout full, bulging; "infra clypeal plate" some- 

 times slightly projecting ; palpi short, as usual, fringed beneath, but not 

 as in Melicleptria or allies, more as in Heliothis ; tongue strong ; body 

 stout, clothed with long hair, intermixed with scales and flattened hair ; 

 the hair usually overlaying the scales, so that at a cursory examination 

 the vestiture appears hairy ; abdomen conic, untufted ; wings mod- 

 erate ; primaries with somewhat produced or rectangular apices ; tibial 

 spinose ; anterior abbreviated, flattened, and broad at tip, and armed 

 with one or more long inner, and a series of from two to four outer 

 claws. 



This genus is based on trifascia, Hb., from which the main points of 

 the foregoing description were taken. Congeneric with this are Euleu- 

 ci/ptera, Tamila, Tricopis, and Lygranthoecia (in part). 



Mr. Grote in Can. Ent. vol. 14, p. 76, makes the remarkable state- 

 ment that the anterior tibia of S. trifascia appear ta him unarmed, and 

 in accordance with that view he described as Svhinia his species buxea, 

 which has broader wings, entirely unarmed elongate fore tibia, the others 

 being non-spinose and close scaly vestiture. It is most assuredly no 

 Schinia, has not the slightest affinity to it, and is not even a Heliothid. 

 Mr. Grote evidently did not take the trouble to examine his insect care- 

 fully. On a par is his description of Meadii and vanella as Tamila. 

 Tamila is based on riundina, and that species is congeneric with Schinia 

 3 fascia. The genus is therefore a synonym of Schinia, and it cannot 

 be used for the other species of the genus which are not congeneric with 

 it. T. Meadii is congeneric with Heliothis fucens, Morr., and I have 

 created a new genus for these species. T. vanella has narrow ovate 

 eyes, and an armature which would make it a Melicleptria were it not 

 for its scaly vestiture. It certainly is not congeneric with nundina, and 

 I have made it the type of a distinct genus, associating it with Meliclep- 

 tria, perminuta , Hy. Edw., and Lygranthoecia scissa, Grt.. with which 

 it is undoubtedly congeneric. 



Tricopis chrj/sel/us has a small clypeal projection which varies in size 

 in the specimens, and is not present in aleucis its near ally. It does not 

 indicate generic distinction, for the same peculiarity is sometimes present 

 in Heliothis scutosus. 



The slight difference in the tibial armature of Enleucyptera does not 

 authorize that genus, and it also drops in as a synonym of Schinia. Ly- 

 granthoecia marginata, the type of the genus in which it is placed is 

 also a Schinia in structure though not in markings. It is too closely 



TRANS. AMER. ENT. SOC. X. (57) FEBRUARY, 1883. 



