A REVISION OF TIIR DELTOID MOTHS — SMITH. 23 



obvious, soiuowiiat (lillnse and iieaily iipiiiilit, black iiieiliau shade 

 line. The orbicular IS i»ale, pimctirorni. Tlie rciiilbnn is pale, soiiie- 

 wliat iiidctinitc and variable in size, with a more or less complete cen- 

 tral lunule, sometimes reduced to a in(ue point in the inferior portion 

 of the si)ot. Secoii(Uiries gray, with a blackish overlay, forming a dark 

 subbasal band and distinct median and extra median dentate pale 

 lines. There is an interrui)ted black ternuiuil line aiul the fringes hjiv(^ 

 a central dark shading. x\b(h)men blackish, the edges of the segments 

 annulate with whitish. Beneath powdery, the primaries blackish out- 

 wardly, with the transverse posterior and subteruiinal lines of the 

 upper side somewhat indelinitely reproduced; secondaries gray, th<^ 

 markings of the upper side less distinctly duplicatetl, and with a very 

 distinct black discal lunule. 



Expause of wings, 2'A to 20 mm. = 0.02 to 1.04: inches. 



IlAHiTAT. — Mitchell County, N. C; in July. 



This si)ecies is most nearly allied to E. scoJtialis, agreeing with it in 

 the dark coh)r and the banded abdomen. It differs in the wider wings, 

 powdery clothing of both wings, and the pale secondaries, agreeing 

 in these characters with the following species. On the other hand, the 

 palpi are entirely like those of E. scobialis, and this species it also 

 resembles most nearly in antennal structure. In both sexes the 

 antenna' are quite heavily scaled, the scales somewhat uplifted. In 

 the male each joint is furnished with a single j)air of lateral bristles, 

 which are reduced to bristle-like hair in the female, so the joints may 

 be abnost said to be simple. 



This is a curiously intermediate form, perhaps more nearly related 

 to the F.seudaglos.sa series, but in clothing and ornamentation more 

 allied to Epizeuxls. 



Epizeuxis americalis, Gueuee. 



1854. Guenee, Species General, Deltoides, 78, pi. 6, fig. 5, TIelia. 

 1859 Walker, Cat. Brit. Mas., Heterocera, XVI, 134, Epizeuxis. 

 1873, Grote, Traus. Am. Entomological Soc, IV, 307, Epizeuxis. 

 1883. Riloy, Canadian Entomologist, XV, 171, larva. 



sciipti2)€iniis, Walker. 

 1S."')S. Walker, Cat. 13rit. Mas., Ileterocera, XV, 1765, Microphiisa. 

 18()8. Groto and Robinson, Traus. Am. Entomological Soc, II, 7!i, pr. syn. 

 1873. Grote, Trans. Am. Entomological Soc, IV, 307, pr. syn. 



(1 round color of head, thorax, and primaries pale, bluish ash gray, 

 more or less black powdered. Head and thorax not maculate. Pri- 

 maries with the outer part of median space yellowish brown, varying 

 in distinctness, and beyond this the wing* is more or less suffused with 

 sordid yellowish brown, which, as a rule, does not extend to the costa. 

 All the transverse lines distinct. Basal line marked on the costa only 

 l)y a blackish spot. Transverse anteiior line upright, irregularly out- 

 curved between the veins, black, preceded by a white line, which is 

 variably distinct and marked outwardly on the costa. by a distiiu-t 

 trigonate black patch. Transverse i)osterior line i)lack, followed by a 



