A REVISION OF THE DKLToll) .>ro'riI.S SMITH. 79 



the cell. The veiiiitioii of the priiiiiuics is ;ibcn;mt, iii llial the acces- 

 sory cell is wanting', and veins 7 to 10 arise lioin the same stalk, with (> 

 from the end of the subcostal. 



I refer the sitecies described by Mr. Grote as Phahvnophitna to 

 Guenee's genus, with which it agrees so far as the desiaiption goes. 

 The genus is well marked and readily distingnished by the cliaracters 

 above given. 



A single si)ecies only is rcf('ral>lc here, my Jl. pallUjera proving not 

 congeneric on cai-cful study of more material. 



Hetei ogramma pyramusalis, Wiilkcr. 



1859. Walker, Cat. Hiit. Mns., lli-tuioci ni, XVT, lOti, Hcrminia. 

 1893, Smith, Hull. 14, U. S. Nat. Mas., IW.'). flelcrotjnimma. 



giiasalw, Walker. 

 1859. Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Hcterocera, XIX, «.")(!, Ilirminia. 

 1893. Smith, Hull. 14, U. S. Nat. Mus., 385, \n\ syii. 



rurUjena, Crote. 

 1873. Grote, Traus. Am. Eiitomoioi^ical Soc., IV^, 305, I'luihniojilKoia. 

 1884. Smith, Hull. Hklii. Eutonioiogical Soc., VII, (i, Ilderonntmiiia. 

 1893. Smith, liull. 44, V. S. Nat. Mus., 385, pr. syii. 



Ground color varying from pale testaceous to dark Inteous, or even 

 smoky gray, in fresh si)ecimens with a moie or less marked greenish 

 or olivaceous suffusion, which changes to a ]»ecidiar sordid yellowish 

 or tan in old exam])les. Head and thorax concolorous, abdomen a 

 little paler, with the edges of the segments ringed with whitisli. 

 Primaries with the inaculation well detiued. Transverse anterior line 

 distinct, upright, pale, outwardly margined by a darker olivaceous 

 gray shading, wliich is outwardly diffuse, extending, well into the 

 median space. Transverse posterior line narrow, nearly even, consist- 

 ing of an olivaceous followed by a pale line, as a whole nearly upiight, 

 its course rather irregularly and very slightly sinuate. A somewhat 

 broader median shade crosses the space beyond the middle and parallel 

 to the transverse posterior line. Su'bterminal line a little paler than 

 the ground color, twice rather markedly bent outward, and with 

 three intervening incurves, emphasized by crossing a darker shade 

 which ])egins in the middle of the subterminal space, is there rigidly 

 defined and exteiuls into the terminal space, irregularly merging into 

 the ground color before the margin is reached. A series of black or 

 blackish terminal lunules, often connected, but sometimes reduced to 

 venular points. A more or less marked dusky or dark sliade extends 

 from the apex obliquely inward toward the cell. Orbicular small, 

 round, concolorous, yellow, brown or black, or entirely wanting. 

 Reniform narrow, upright, centrally constricted, black centered, some- 

 times reduced to two superimposed black dots. Secondaries i)aler, 

 more whitish toward the base, crossed by two rather even dark lines 

 continuing the median shade and transverse posterior line, and by a 

 pale line continuing the subterminal line of the primaries. Of these 



