458 



iiileiiur line; discal point iiud marginal points lilack ; under side without 

 lines. Fore \vin<j;s with a subniaroinal lini', wliich is composed of bliK-k dots 

 in trout, and is obsolete hindwards. Iliud wings with a submarginal line of 

 black points. 



"Length of the budj- 6 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



"Canada. In Mr. D'Urban's collection." 



Boarwia dicisana Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxi, 489, I860.— 

 ^^ Female. Whitish cinereous, thinly luown-speckled. Abdomen blackish at 

 the base and on the sutures of the segments. Wings ample, with a regular 

 oblique brown band, which is bordered with black on the inner side, and is 

 intersected l)y black streaks; marginal dots black; under side without lines. 

 Fore wings with a basal band, which is much like the middle l)and. 



"Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 20 lines. 



"Canada. In Mr. D'Urban's collection." 



(This is apparently a valid species.) 



Subfamily ENNOMINiE Clucnec (emend). 



"Euiwmkli Guou. MS." before 1844 ; Diip., Cut., 2Ui, 1844. 



Siibtribe Ennomiica Diip., Cat., 210, 1844. 



Subfiimilie.s Odopkridi and Epionidi (iu part) Stoph., Cat. Br. Li'p., 164, 180, 1850. 



Faiiiilie.s Uraplirijdir. and Ennomidw Gnen., Phal., i, 215, 64, 18.")7. 



Walk., List Lep. Het. lir. Mils., xx, 4, 0.5, IflOO. 



Body stout, the thorax often hairy, and the abdomen long and slender, 

 well tufted at the end. Head rather nari'ow in front, esi3ecially in the higher 

 genera {Drepanodes and Eutrapela), with the scales appressed to the clypens, 

 or loose and projecting, forming an interpalpal tuft. Palpi rather stout and 

 large, porrect or ascending, passing beyond the front ; thiid joint small, dis- 

 tinct, button-shaped or pointed. Male antenna?, as a rule, more heavily [)ectin- 

 ated than usual, rarely simple, sometimes with short pectinations in the female. 

 Wings large and usually angular, the anterior pair with the apex falcate, rarely 

 rectangular ; the outer edge often deeply excavated and scalloped on each side 

 of the ])rominent angle on the first median venule. Hind wings usually with 

 a prt)mineiit angle, rarely rounded. Venation : one subcostal cell is nearly 

 always i)resent; it is either sliort and rhomboidal or long and narrow. The 

 costal vein almost invariably ana.stomoses with the subcostal. Hind legs with 

 tile tii)i;c often large, long, and much swollen, .sfunetimes with a pencil of long 

 thin hairs; tarsi short, one-lui!f to two-tliirds as long as the tibia'. The 



