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longitudinal golden yellow marking. Midway between the two fasciae are three short 

 longitudinal parallel silvery streaks, one just below the costal edge, the other two 

 closer together on the middle of the wing. Between and broken up by these silvery 

 markings which all are edged with dark scales is a large, diffused, longitudinal, 

 golden yellow spot reaching from base to beyond the end of the cell, confined to the 

 upper half of the wing, but at no place touching the costal edge. Cilia dark brown. 

 Hind wings dark bronzy brown. Abdomen bronzy with anal tuft silvery. Legs 

 silvery, indistinctly barred with black. Alar expanse : 9-10 mm. 



Habitat. — Center Harbor, New Hampshire. (H. G. Dyar, coll.) 



Type. — U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 10323. 



This pretty little species is nearest to slialleriella Chambers, which 

 species also belongs in Epicallima though aberrant in having veins 

 7 and 8 in forewings united instead of merely stalked as is the case in 

 the type of the genus. Shalleriella is a larger species differing 

 somewhat in wing-ornamentation, notably in the possession of the 

 white costal spot before apex and the black-silvery ocellate spots on 

 dorsal edge. 



The genus Epicallima differs from Borkhatisenia mainly in the 

 absence of pecten on the basal joint of the antennae. Mr. Edw. 

 Meyrick has lately recorded two species of this genus from Ceylon. 



Colinita, new genus. 



Type. — C. sponsella Busck. 



Labial palpi long, recurved, smooth, pointed. Tongue very long, stout, scaled 

 at base, coiled. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Antennae simple, basal joint enlarged, 

 with pecten. Head and thorax smooth. Forewings narrow, elongate pointed, more 

 than four times as long as broad, smooth scaled. 12 veins: 7 and 8 stalked; 7 to 

 termen ; 3 and 4 short-stalked, 5 approximate to or out of base of 4 ; 3 with a strong 

 tendency to become obsolete ; lb simple at base ; \c strongly developed. Hind wings 

 somewhat narrower than the forewings; costal edge nearly straight; termen slightly 

 sinuate ; apex pointed ; 8 veins ; 2, 3 and 4 distant, nearly parallel ; 4 and 5 short- 

 stalked ; 6 and 7 parallel ; 8 free. 



Posterior tibiae clothed with rough hairs above. 



The pectinated basal joint of the antennae, the separate veins 6 

 and 7 in the hindwings and the hairy posterior tibiae place this genus 

 in the family Blastobasidae, though the stalked veins 4 and 5 and the 

 separate veins 3 and 4 in the hindwings are heterogenous in this 

 family and suggest relationship with some of the Yponomeutidc^. 



Colinita sponsella, new species. 



Labial palpi whitish gray with a broad black annulation on the middle of second 

 joint and another on the middle of terminal joint. Face, head and thorax whitish 

 gray, mixed with black scales. Ground color of fore wings dirty white sprinkled with 



