216 J. B. SMITH. 



otherwise agrees with it in every respect; the wings are dirty white, with a narrow 

 smoky median band and a fine dark t. p. line; the secondaries are of a uniform 

 pale color; secondaries beneath as above; primaries smoky: clypeua bulging,' 

 with a cylindrical conic protuberance. — Fit. Teppkr. 



Described by Mr. Tepper, at my request, from a single specimen in 

 his collection. It fits in no other genus so well as in this, and I do not 

 consider the lack of the tibial armature in this case as a generic distinc- 

 tion. 



Differs throughout from Charic/ea Kirby, which is not the Charic/ea 

 dl' Mr. Grote, but closely allied to Lederer's section B, a of that genus. 

 Expands 1 inch, 20 millim 



Habitat. — Southern California. 

 A. Snowi, Gr., Pr. Ac. N. Sc. Ph., 1875. p. 422; 111. Essay, f. 



This is described as of a pale lemon yellow ; primaries with a light 

 roseate shading beyond the cell, with the sinuate t. p. line faintly indi- 

 cated in rose-color. Some roseate basal shades, and at the place of the 

 t. a. line. Secondaries pale fuscous, with a roseate terminal stain. Pri- 

 maries fuscous beneath, with rosy apices. 



Mr. Grote says the fore tibia are short, with terminal and lateral 

 claws ; middle and hind tibia spinose ; this last expression precludes the 

 possibility of the insect belonging to this genus, which has the tibia un- 

 armed except the terminal armature of the anterior pair which are not 

 abbreviated. It is probably an Alaria. 



PIPPONA, Harv. 

 But. Bui. 3, 9. Tibia. PI. VII. fig. 5. 



Eyes naked ; head moderate ; clypeus full, with the inferior plate some- 

 what projecting; palpi very short; tongue rather weak ; thorax mode- 

 rate, with scaly vestiture, mixed with somewhat flattened hair; abdomen 

 conic, untufted. ovipositor of 9 extruded; tibiae spinose. anterior ab- 

 breviated, flattened, with two inner and three outer claws as shown in 

 figure; primaries elongate, with lengthily produced apices. 



A somewhat rubbed specimen from Mr. Henry Edwards' collection 

 has enabled me to examine the venation of this rather peculiar genus, 

 and this adds to the peculiarity, the absence of the accessory cell, pres- 

 ent in all other genera of this group which I have examined except, 

 perhaps, Antaplaga. The insect has a Bombycid appearance, already 

 noted by Or. Harvey, but the peculiar formation of the anterior tibia, 

 and the structure of clypeus and abdomen places it here. 



1*. bimatrtis. Harv., Buf. Bui. ."», 10.— Entirely white, primaries with a 

 satiny lustre; head with a yellowish tinge. Readily recognized by the white 

 color and peculiarly shaped primaries. Expands li inch, .".(I millim. 



Habitat. — Texas. 



