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streak by tbe interior angle, near which there is a brown spot. 

 Hind wings brown, yellow towards the base. 



Length of the body 6 lines, of the wings 14 lines. 



St. Domingo. 



Clemens. 



LAPARA Walker. 



Male. Body rather slender. Head small, short. Proboscis 

 moderately long. Palpi very short. Antenna slender, subclavate, 

 hardly longer than the thorax and attenuated but hardly hooked 

 toward the tips. Abdomen linear, full twice the length of the 

 thorax. Legs slender ; hind tibice with four moderately long 

 spurs. Wings rather narrow, not long. Fore wings almost 

 straight in front, slightly rounded at the tips, straight and very 

 oblique along the exterior border; interior border straight; second 

 inferior vein far nearer to the first than to the third ; fourth very 

 remote. Hind wings rounded at the tips. 



This genus has much outward resemblance to the Bomhycidce. 



1. L. bombycoides Walker, p. 233. 



Cinereous. Fore wings with a zigzag, oblique, black line, and 

 with several lanceolate, black marks. Hind wings brownish, paler 

 towards the base ; cilice white. 



Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



Canada. 



Clemens. 



ELLEMA Clemens. 



Size small. Body rather slender, diameter nearly equal, but 

 slightly fusiform in the J". The head is quite small, sessile and 

 somewhat depressed, being but partially visible from above ; the 

 front moderate, vertical and subtufted ; the palpi rather short and 

 slender, but equal to the front ; the tongue equal to palpi ; the 

 eyes very small ; the antennas terminating in a short hook and seta, 

 and longer than the thorax. The thorax is very short and pilose, 

 but little advanced anterior to the base of the fore wings and 

 rather globosely rounded in front. The abdomen is cylindrical, 



