at others cafiiii,' only llie iiijpt'r smfacc. It is full-fed toward the end of 

 August, and soon afterward l)econics a ehrysalis, in which state it passes the 

 winter." — Newman's British Moths, 157. 



Mdanippe reciprocafa Walk, is Odezia albovittata, as I learned from an 

 examination of the type in the British Museum. 



Desidi'rata. 



Melanthia condensaia Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., .xxiv, 127i), 1862. — 

 New York. 



MduHthki gratukita Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxiv, 1273, 1862.— 

 Vancouver's Island. 



Melim>i>i>r pn>]ni<iria Walk., List L(^p. Het. Br. Mus., .\xv, 1293, 1862.— 

 ( 'anada. 



ANTICLEA Stephens. Plate 1, tig. 11. 



AnKobe Hlibii. (iu part), Vcrz., ;i33, 181S. 



r'irfrtrifflTreits. (in part), Selim. Eur., vi (ii), 140, 1828. 



Ihirpahjce. Stoph. (in part), Nomenel. Br. lu.s., 44, 18^9. 



ciddi-ia Diip. (in part), Lep. France, viii (v), U'JS, 1830. 



Lumproplerijx Stv-iih. (iu part). 111., iii, 233, 1831. 



Aiiticha Stepb., 111., iii, 231!, ISI'.l. 



Cidaria Boisd. (in part), Gen. lud., 212, 1840. 



I.urentia H.-Scb. (in part), Scbm. Eur., iii. 141, 1847. 



f.amproplcryx and Aiiticlca Stcpb., Cat. lir. Lep., 193, 1850. 



Aniidca Gueu., Pbal., ii, 404, 1857. 



Cidaria Staudiuger, Cat., 78, 1861 ; 2d ed., 1871. 



Anticha W'alk., List Lep. Ilet. Br. Mus., xxv, 1299, 1802. 



Head considerably broader between the eyes than in Rkeu}naj)tera, and 

 more so than in Orliipia. The scales on the vertex are raksed in a project- 

 iiiij, broad, transverse crest. ]\Iale antenna; usually densely ciliated. Palpi 

 short, hardly passing beyond the front; second joint very broad; third, minute, 

 conical, concealed by the projecting hairs of the second joint. Fore wings 

 broader than usual ; otherwise the form of the wing is much as in Rheu- 

 maptera. The hind win^js differ in being a little more produced than in 

 RItcKmaptcni. In the venation, the genus differs from both Ochyria and 

 Rheumaptera in the much shorter first subcostal; the first three subcostal 

 venules being of the .same length, where they are, in the two above-named 

 genera, nnc(inal, the hrst l)eing nearly twice as long as the second; two 

 unequal subcostal cells; tlii' discal venules run directly at right angles to the 

 costal edge, the ])osferior discal venule not being oblique as usual : in this 



