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Bleptina inferior. (Wolf 

 1872. Groto, Trans. Am. Kntoiiuilo^ical Soc. IV, fll, HU'iiHiki. 



Darker iind of a difleroiit line conqtared with />. carmlr'nulis. Tho 

 reniforin is creamy pale, as is the orbicular, siibobsoletely bhick ringed, 

 and shows an interior black included dot. The niarkinj;s of it.s <;on- 

 gener are n^produced by this smaller sjxicies, but less distinctly. Tiie 

 color of the primaries is of a more bluish and darker gray, and they arc 

 more uniformly colored, hardly <larker shaded terminally. The second- 

 aries are nuich darker, almost wholly blackish ; the lines imperceptible 

 or obsolete. Beneath, both wiiij^s blackish, the siibteniiinal line alunc 

 barely perceivable. 



Expanse of wings, 'JO to -5 mm. =0.80 to 1 inch. 



Haeitat. — Southern States to Texas; May. Angnst. and October. 



1 have already referred to the fact thai this species has been mis 

 taken in collections, and I am afraid I am responsible for some of the 

 errors. This has led me to gi\e what 1 now beheve to be too great a 

 geograi>hic range to this species in my catalogue, and 1 am inclined to 

 doubt whether it occurs in the ^liddle States at all. The comparative 

 description above gi\en is Mr. Grote's original characterization, and 

 points out the essential features of the ornanu'ntation. The same 

 characters separate it also from />. mcdialis. Within n»y ex})erience 

 the s|)ecies varies little. To the (juite unusual anteunal structure of 

 the male 1 have already referred. The .fore legs are in all essentials 

 like those of />'. car((driii((li.s, but less developed, and proportionately 

 shorter. 



Genus TETANOLITA, (ir..t«. 



lS7o. (irote, Trans. Am. Kutomolonical Sot-., IV, 305. 



Head moderate or rather small, front with an interantennal ]>ointed 

 tutt. Eyes prominent, globose. Ocelli distinct, situated well back, 

 close to the compound eye, and well removed from the base of the 

 antenna'. Tongue modeiate. Palpi long, curved upward, and a little 

 tlattened, (piite closely scaled, third joint long and pointed. Antenme 

 moderate in length, in the female sinii)le, in the male with lateral bris- 

 tles, varying in the si)ecies, and at basal thud with a tuftof hair which 

 is variably de\elo[>ed and covers two very slightly dilated joints. Body 

 slight, abdomen slender, cylindrical, reaching to or somewhat exceed- 

 ing the anal angle of secondaries; in the female, ]>oiiited at tip and 

 somewhat conic. Legs long and rather slender, closely scaled. Ihe 

 usual spurs of the middle and liiiid tibia- long and niie(|ua]. In the 

 male the fore legs arc (piite strongly moditied. The coxa is long, quite 

 stout, with a peculiar excavation or emargination at the outer side at 

 base. The trochanter is about one-third the length of the femur ami 

 combined with the latter a tritle longer than the coxa. The femur is 

 furnished with a rather short pencil of hair attached at base, capable 

 of fanlike expansion, and a fringing of s[)(!cialized scales laterally near 



