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37. Aedophron Snowi. 

 The eyes arc uaked, the tongue stout, the fore 

 tibige sliort, with terminal and lateral claws ; hind 

 and middle tibia3 spinose. The wings are shaped as 

 in the European A. HhodUes ; the American species 

 is stouter and larger, and while the colours are 

 much the same, the roseate hues are less extended. 

 I received the beautiful species from Professor 

 Snow, after whom it is named. It is the only true 

 Aedophron yet described from America. A species 

 is named Aedophron grandls in some collections ; 

 but this is a synonym of Qopahlepharon Ahsidimi, 

 in which the deep-yellow wings are differently 

 shaped, and shaded variously with greyish fuscous 

 parallel with the margins. 



Aedophron Snowi, Gioie, Proc. Ac. N. Sci. Phil. p. 422 (1875). 



38. Scopelosoma Graefiana. 

 This bright orange-yellow species is very dis- 

 tinctly marked. Like others of its genus, the Moth 

 hibernates. It has been beaten from oak-leaves in 

 the autumn by Mr. Moffat of Kingston, Ontario, 

 and occnrs with S. Ceromatica ; both of these 

 deeply-coloured species are concealed by the tints 

 of the autumn leaves in which they conceal them- 

 selves. It has been collected by Mr. E. L. Graef, 

 after whom the species is named, in New Jersey, 

 and is found also in the Eastern States. The genus 

 is numerously represented in North America. A 

 list of the North-American species belonging to the 



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