4 If) 



ciishi and (in llic veins, willi ohscnic lines conncclini.i- llicin, llioiiuli in ucll- 

 prcscrvcd sjicri mens t In' lines a fc deaf niid cnnt in nuns. iSase nl'llie w inirdark. 

 Inner line well cnived ; second and Ihiid lines nearer loLretlnr ilian in hir/u- 

 /■/w.v. especially on the inner edi^e oT llie wiui;-. llaH'-way liel ween I he I liiid line 

 and the (inter edoc of llie wini,' is a lliinter hand than the others, re|n-esentcd 

 i)_v a costal s([nare spof, and a lilack spot on the inner anyie. 'I'iie iVinLje is 

 concolorons with the winiz', liein-^- a little paler at the ends of the veins, Imt 

 not so dislincllv (diecivcred as in the iMiropean species. Hind wini,'s with 

 three transverse diU'nse hands; when rnhhed, they iii'e represented hv the 

 sqnarish spots on the inner edue, whei-e the win^ is more Ihieklv scaled than 

 in the middle, the wini,'- heins,' more hyaline than in 11. Iilrhiiiiis. lieneath, 

 paler than al)(/ve: oiitei' edire ot' the wings somewhat frosted; ape\ of holh 

 wings whitish ; second and third lines reproduced, ending in two costal idack 

 spots. 'Ilind wings witli two liiint lines and two costal s[iots. Le(rs and body 

 beiicatli very hairy, coiicoloions with the npper surliice. 



Length of body, c^ , 0.7:). 9, O.So; i(H-e wing, i , O.Sf), 9, l.UU; expan.so 

 of wings, I f)5-2.( inches. 



'Albany, N. Y., "April s" (Me,ske). 



It may be kn(»wn l)y the thin semi-t ranspai-ent wings, [lepper-and-salt 

 color, and three paralhd, broad, ditrnse, dark lines, and the haiiT, long branches 

 of the anteniife. 



PARAPHIA Guenee. Plate 4, fig. IH ; plate 5, fig. 1. 



Vnraphia Gneu., Plial., i, 271, 1S.')7. 



Walk., List Lep. Hot. Br. Miis., xxi, {•>?., IHCO. 

 Amihipi^ Guen., Phal., ii. Cfi. IH.ST. 



]\Iale antenna; well jx'ctinated. l'al|)i rather slender, projecting a little 

 beyond the front, which is rather narrow in the male, more so than in 

 Ti-phrosia. Fore wings with the costa moderately convex compared with 

 T('])lin)siu cognataria, 'ioY c\i\.m\)\r ; the a[)ex is snbacnte. Older edge l)en1 

 in the middle, entire in the male, in tin- female distinctly serrate. Hind 

 wings sfpiarisli, with a prominent angle in the middle of the outer edge, 

 slightly dentate in the male, cons|iiciu)usly so in the female. Venation: 

 costal vein free from the snl)costal; lirst subcostal venule branched witliin 

 the middle, the lower branch not arising, as usual, from the main vein ; six 

 suhco.stal venules, where there are l)nt live in Tcphrosiu; the first and second 

 median venules co-originate, where in Tcplnomi and Crjviatnphoru they are 



