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broadly black ringed. Anal plate large, black ; also extensive black plates on joint 

 12, single for tubercle i and tubercle ii, paired including tubercles iii to v and the 

 spiracle ; joint 12 is small and hunched up, 13 still smaller, scarcely divided by a 

 suture. Skin slightly shining, minutely granular. Cervical shield elliptical, bisected, 

 black. Head round, free, slightly bilobed, higher than wide, black, shading to 

 brownish below ; clypeus high ; ocelli black. Tubercles ia and ib are separate on 

 joints 3 and 4." — (Harrison G. Dyar. ) 



HYPONOMEUTID.^^:. 

 Hemerophila dyari, sp. nov. (Plate IX, Fig. 9.) 



Antennae nearly three-fourths black with silvery white annulations and with 

 two longitudinal rows of cilia on the underside ; length of cilia twice the thickness of the 

 antenna;. Labial palpi moderate, curved ascending ; second joint long, slightly rough 

 in front, white with one black annulation ; terminal short, thickened, blunt, black, 

 with one ring round the middle and with the extreme tip white. Maxillary palpi 

 obsolete. Tongue well developed, spiraled. Face, head and thorax smooth, very 

 dark olive-green, nearly black, evenly and thickly sprinkled with golden yellow 

 sciles. Basal two-fifths of fore wing concolorous with thorax and equally evenly 

 sprinkled with yellow scales. This basal part is sharply edged by a narrow, 

 somewhat undulating, transverse line of bluish white scales, most pronounced on the 

 costal half of the wing. Outside of this line the wing has a very perceptible but not 

 easily defined purplish sheen. The ground color is the same as in the basal part of 

 the wing, but the more thickly sprinkled light scales are of a purplish white color, 

 which dominates this part of the wing and makes it appear much lighter colored than 

 the basal part. Towards the end of the wing the light scales become gradually 

 fewer and nearly golden yellow again as on basal part of the wing, but the bluish cast 

 remains. Just at apex the triangular corner of the wing is so thickly overlaid with 

 golden scales as to appear all gold ; this part is separated from the other by a deep 

 black narrow line from costal edge to middle of termen. Along the outer edge of 

 the wing runs a deep black line. Cilia dark purplish fuscous with strong metallic 

 blue refiection. Hind wing dark olive-brown, cilia purplish with golden yellow base. 

 Abdomen above deep bluish black, below with a light golden yellow transverse band 

 on each segment. Legs golden with black annulations. Underside of thorax yel- 

 lowish white. The underside of the wings dark olive-brown ; the apical corner of 

 the fore wing, corresponding to the golden upper part, is golden yellow ; along the 

 base of the cilia is a deep black line corresponding to that on the upper side. Alar 

 expanse, 14 mm. 



Habitat : Palm Beach, Florida. 



U. S. National Museum, type no. 5362. 



Described from a single bred male in perfect condition, issued in 

 March. 



The venation of this species (Plate IX, P'ig. 9) is as follows: 

 Fore wing tortricid-shaped, 12 veins, all separate, 2 distant from 

 corner of cell, 3-10 from end of cell, 7 to termen, 8 to costa, \b fur- 



