326 



AsTHENA LUCATA Gucnc'e. Plate 10, fig. 43. 



AsUwua luaita Giicii., rbal., i, 437, 1857. 



Walk., List Lep. ll.-t. Br. Miis., xxii, (173, 1861. 



2 9. — AViiiifs ol the saiiic shape a.s in jlie other species. II(>a(l in front 

 and tliorax oclircous-liroun. Winijs white; fore wings with the space 

 between Ihc hasal line and the inscrfion of the wing brown, n)ix(nl with deep 

 ochreoiis; a median very sinnate line just beyond Iiut tonching the discal dot, 

 and slill bcwond a broad, irregnlar, large, brown patch, rc|)resented on the costa 

 by tiiree spots, and below the third median vein by two lines; the patch 

 extends to tile indistinct submarginal line; apex clear white. On the hind 

 wings, the discal dot is distinct, and there are traces of two brown lines in 

 (he middle of the wing. Beneath, the discal dots on both wings are distinct: 

 on the fore wings are tliree indistinct scalloped lines, more or less diffuse and 

 blended; on the hind wings, traces of a single curved line just beyond the 

 discal dot. 



Length of body, 9, 0.30; of fore wing, 9, 0.43; expanse of wings, 

 0.90 inch. 



" Canada " (Gueiiee) ; Brunswick, Me. (Packard, Mus. Peab. Acad. Sc.) ; 

 Dorchester, Mass. (Sanborn) ; Amherst, Mass., June 27 (Goodell). 



This description should l)e compared with that of M. Guenee ; but I 

 have little doulit that the examples l)efore me represent a variety of his 

 species, but with the lines on the fore wings confused and blended. My 

 description should be regarded as provisional. 



ACIDALIA Treitsclike. Plate 4, figs. 3, 3a, 3b, 3c; plate 6, fig 21. 



Conmorliuc Hiibu. (in part), Vevz., 3ti6, 1818. 



Eois Hiibn. (in part), Verz., :W«, 1818. 



Lcptomcris Hiibn. (in part), Verz., 310, 1818. 



Arrhoslia Hiibn., Verz., 311, 1818. 



Idaa Treits. (in part), Schm. Eur., v (i), 44G, 1825. 



Acklalia Treits. (in part), v (ii), 438, 1825; vi (ii), 5, 1628. 



Ptychopoda Stciib., Nomencl. Br. Ins., 45, 182'J. 



Dosilhi'ii Dnji., Lep. France, vii (iv), 108, 1821); viii (v), 43, 1830. 



AciduUn Dnp. (i[i jiart). Lep. France, vii (Iv), 108, 1829 ; viii (v), 70, 1830. 



Curtis, Brit. Ent., 384, 1831. 



Boistl., Gen. Ind., 221, 1840. ' ' 



H.-Sch. (in part), Scbm. Eur., iii, 12, 1847. 



Stci>h., Cat. Brit. Lep., 221, lt*50. 



Leclcrer, Verb. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wieu, 191, 1853. 



Guen., Bbal., i, 444, 1857. 



Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxii, CiSO, 1801. 



Head very short ; front narrow, and sunken between the large globose 



