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P. criiKtaria, Morr., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sri. Phil. 1875, p. 70 (Acontia), PI. 



VIII. fig. 6fi. 



Readily recognized, not only by the generic characters but by the 

 whitish primaries with dark base, median and marginal band ; secon- 

 daries blackish, with a white median band not attaining the costal margin. 



I have the type of Mr. Morrison's Acontia crustaria ( S and $ ), 

 and they cannot remain associated with that genus. The bulging cly- 

 peus, and more than all the abbreviated armed fore tibia place the species 

 among the Heliothids, and forms the connecting link between the two 

 groups. Both specimens had the anterior tibia prominently displayed, 

 and I cannot understand Mr. Morrison's remark, " legs long and slender ; 

 the tibia unarmed." Expands rather more than an inch, 28 millim. 



Habitat. — Nebraska. 



The species which I have not seen are as follows : 



Schinia reetifascia, Grt., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 16, 242.— More 

 broadly winged and slighter bodied than S. trifaxcia, Hb., of a somewhat pale, 

 dull olivaceous color. The primaries have each three pale fasciae, but these are 

 much narrower and nearly upright in the new species. The two first correspond- 

 ing to the ordinary median lines are nearly straight, wider apart than in trifasciu, 

 where they are approximate and very oblique. The third fascia corresponds to 

 the usual subterminal line; it is outwardly projected beyond its costal inception, 

 where it copies the course of the second fascia or outer median line. A pale linear 

 discoloration at the extremity of the cell in the place of the reniform. The fringes 

 and terminal margin are stained of a brownish ochraceous on both wings; the 

 secondaries are silky, discolored whitish; beneath pale fuscous, with oehreous 

 terminal stains dying the fringes, and with costal trace of double darker common 

 lines. Expanse 28 millim. 



Habitat. — Pennsylvania and Alabama. 



Anthoecia tuberculum, Hb., Zutr. 517, 518; Guen. Noct. 2, 185. — 

 Primaries above clear ochraceous, mixed with olivaceous at base, at the median 

 space and toward the outer margin, where it forms a band which occupies the 

 entire subterminal space — the rest cloudy, indistinct; the reniform is more or less 

 distinct; secondaries black, yellow at base with a black discal spot; beneath 

 varied with ochraceous and black; the primaries have the disc black, with an 

 inferior band and spot yellow ; abdwmen distinctly banded with yellow and black. 



Am. Sept. (Coll. Bd. ). 



Lygrantlioecin limbalis, Grt., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. IS75. 421. — 

 ' " Allied to arcifera. Fore wings deep shining blackish-brown ; thorax more red- 

 dish; ail the lines obliterate; the annulets of the reniform can be made out; on 

 the middle of the wing there is a whitish patch on internal margin, and one 

 above it, smaller, on costa ; hind wings black, immaculate, with pale fringes; be- 

 neath black, with the terminal spaces reddish : abdomen black, with the terminal 

 segment yellowish. Expands 2(1 millim. — Prof. Snow." 

 Habitat. — Kansas. 

 Would seem from the description to be ailed to L. const net a, Hy. Edw. 



