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Acidulia? albifera Walk., List, xxxv, Siippl., 1625, 1H66. — '"Fc?nide. 

 Wliite. Palpi ponect, sleiulcr, not extending beyond the head. Antennae 

 and legs slender. Abdomen shorter than the interior border of the hind 

 wings. Legs slender. Wings semihyaline, rather broad, with four indistinct 

 zigzag interrupted pale ochreons lines. Fore wings slightly acute ; exterior 

 border convex, moderately oblicpie. Hind wings with the exterior border 

 very slightly angular in the middle. Length of the body 2^ Hnes; of 

 tiie wings 9 lines. North America." 



Macarki JidoHkiria Walk., ].iist Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxxv, 1654, 1866 — 

 ''Male. Cinereous, thickly brown-speckled. Palpi blackish, porrect, stout, 

 extending rather beyond the head; third joint very minute. Antennae 

 broadly pectinated, except at the tips. Abdomen as long as the interior 

 border of the hind wings. Hind tibiae hardly dilated, with four short spurs. 

 Wings with a broad blackish band near the base, and with a postmedial 

 undidating l)lackish line; a blackish middle dot ; fringe alternately blackish 

 and cinereous. Fore wings hardly acute; two blackish more or less con- 

 nected sometimes ferruginous-varied patches between the postmedial line 

 and the exterior border, which is convex and moderately obhque. Hind 

 wings with the exterior border hardly angular in the middle. 



"Length of the l)ody 3| lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



"a, h. North America. From Mr. Carter's collection." 



Acidaliu ferruminaria Zeller, Verb. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wien, 478, 1872. — 

 "Pedibus posticis i mancis 9 4 calcaratis ; alis rufescenti-ochraceis vel 

 ochraceo-rufesccnlibus, auterioribus fascia media uigricanti strigaque punc- 

 torum majusculorum dentata nigra per posteriores continuata. i 9 . 



"Die melir noch als bei Straminata etc. verkiimmerten t? Hinterbeine 

 l>eweisen, dass diess eine echte Acidalia ist, der sich aber, wenn man diesen 

 Umstand und die Fiirbung b.eriicksichtigt, in der Gesellschaft der europa- 

 ischen Arten kaum ein passender Platz anweisen lasst. 



"Grosse kaum wie Muricata. Kcirper rothlich ochergelb oder ocher- 

 gclbrothlicli. Gesicht etwas gebriiunt. Taster kurz, spitz, rothlichgell). 

 Fiihler rothlichgell), beim i dnrch feine, braune, behaarte Kammzahne 

 doppelt getiedert. Hinterleibssegmente am Anfange mehr oder weniger 

 braunstaubig. Beine rothlichgell); die i Hinterbeine ganz verkiimmert, 

 klciii und lilassgcll)licli : die Scliiciir ein weiiiii; Hiugcr als der Sclieukcl, 



