June, 1906.] DYAR : NVMPHUIJN.K AND SCOPARIIN^ 99 



Stenia bufalis Druce, Biol. Cent. -Am., Lep. Het. , ii, 561, pi. 101, f. 21, 1899. 



$ with a fovea in the cell, the wings slightly distorted. Dark gray-brown, lines 

 blackish ; inner line wavy, obscure ; discal dot a squared ringlet ; outer line dentate, 

 excurved over cell, edged without with whitish. Hind wing lighter, the mesial line 

 produced outward on central segment, faintly darker, edged without with pale ; traces 

 of a discal dot. Expanse, 14 to 20 mm. 



Cayenne, French Guiana (Guenee) ; Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana 

 (Moschler) ; Panama (Druce). 



4 d\ 3 9' Charlotte Harbor, Lake Worth and Miami, Fla. (Mrs. 

 Slosson, in coll. Prof. C. H. Fernald) ; 10 Q, Miami, Fla. ( W. 

 Schaus); 9 Q, Cayenne, French Guiana (W. Schaus). 



Genus STENIODES Snellen. 



Steniodes Snellen, Tijd. voor. Ent., xviii, 244, 1875. 



Stenia Hampson (in part), Trans, ent. soc. Lond., 206, 1897. 



Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the third joint hidden by hair \ maxillary palpi 

 dilated at extremity ; frons rounded ; antenna of male thickened and bearing a tuft 

 of hair at one fourth from base ; fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 

 5 from angle ; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9, 10. Hind wing with the cell 

 about half the length of the wing ; vein 3 from before angle ; 4, 5 approximated for 

 a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Steniodes gelliasalis Walker. 



Botys gelliasalis Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. , xix, 988, 1859. 

 Steniodes lutealis Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent., xviii, 245, 1875. 

 Stenia gelliasalis Hampson, Trans, ent. soc. Lond., 207, 1897. 



Of the color and markings of Piletocera bufalis Guen., and easily confused there- 

 with. The palpi are straight and porrect and white on the lower half, while in bufalis 

 they are curved, though short, and are dark below. Wings squarer and more trigonate 

 than in bufalis, the lines a little more delicate and less contrasted. Hind wing 

 nearly uniformly dark, the marks obliterate. Expanse, 13 to 15 mm. 



Rio Janeiro, Brazil (Walker) ; West Indies (Snellen). 



1 9> Lake Worth, Florida (Mrs. Slosson) ; 1 §, Jamaica (W. 

 Schaus) ; 1 9> Grenada, B. W. I. (W. Schaus) ; 1 9» Brownsville, 

 Texas, Los Borregos, June 5, 1904 (H. S. Barber). 



Subfamily Scopariin,*:. 

 Proboscis present ; palpi porrect and hairy, the maxillary palpi dilated with long 

 hairs. Fore wings with more or less developed tufts of raised scales in the cell ; vein 

 7 from cell, 10 from cell. Hind wing with the median nervure non-pectinate. 



Genus SCOPARIA Haworth. 



Scoparia Haworth, Lep. Brit., 491, 1803. 

 Eudorea Curtis, Brit. Ent., vi, 170, 1825. 



