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line across the tip. Hind wings Hght whitish fuscous with darker tip and 

 veins. The four anterior legs are blackish with white annulations on the 

 tarsi; posterior legs whitish ochreous, slightly sprinkled on the outer surfaces 

 with fuscous. 



Alar expanse: 14-15111111. 



Habitat: Washington, D. C 



Type: U. S- N. M., No. 10237. 



Food plant: Gleditschia horrida. 



This species was bred in the insectary of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture in February from seedpods of the above plant, 

 collected the previous September; the larvae fed on the pulp 

 around the seeds. They were dirty greenish, tinged with purple, 

 head brownish yellow, cervical shield lighter, both highly polished ; 

 piliferous warts large, flat, polished, about the color of the body. 



The species is nearest and quite close to the European dubitana 

 Hiibner, but differs in the much greater extent of the dark parts 

 of the fore wings and in the presence of the narrow transverse 

 white line across the tip. 



Genus PHARMACIS Hubner. 



Fore wings with vein 7 to termen. Hind wings with 3 and 4 connate or 

 stalked; 6 and 7 stalked. 



Type: sartana Hubner. 



I Synopsis of American species: 



Ground color of fore wings white mexicana. 



Ground color ochreous i 



1. Entire apical part of wing dark clouded 2 



Apical part of wing with limited dark markings 3 



2. With broad dark dorsal marking touching the edge erigeronana. 



With narrow dark dorsal marking not touching edge deceptana. 



3. With complete central fascia sartana. 



Without such fascia bimaculana. 



Pharmacis deceptana, new species. 



Labial palpi whitish, sprinkled with ochreous fuscous. Face, head and 

 thorax dirty white, sprinkled with ochreous fuscous. Fore wings dirty white 

 overlaid with ochreous fuscous and with dark brown markings. The basal 

 two-thirds of the fore wing is evenly sprinkled with short, ill-detined trans- 

 verse ochreous fuscous streaks, and contains on the middle of the fold a con- 

 spicuous dark brown kidney-shaped oblique spot, nearly but not quite touch- 

 ing the dorsal edge: this spot is emphasized by being surrounded by a narrow 



