92 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



before the cilia are the long, oblique, costal and opposite dorsal white 

 streaks mentioned in the description, and behind these are three short, 

 white, costal and four dorsal streaks, the latter produced into the cilia, 

 which are white, with three distinct, dark brown, hinder marginal lines, 

 placed respectively at their base, middle, and apex; the legs are whitish, 

 stained with fuscous on their anterior surfaces; and the alar expansion 

 ranges from six to seven lines. 



C. PALLIDISTRIGELLA, Cham. 



This species is a little smaller than the preceding, ranging from five 

 to six lines in alar expansion. The color of the head and appendages and 

 the thorax resemble those of the preceding species, and it is fully as 

 variable. The tegulae and extreme base of the wings are white, the 

 wings otherwise being much darker than in any of the specimens of the 

 preceding species. They vary from orange-yellow to a dark yellow suf- 

 fused with fuscous. The streak along the fold and the one above and 

 parallel to it are indistinct, and their contained blackish spots are 

 smaller, ichile the costal margin from the middle to the cilia is white; the 

 costal oblique streak is much less oblique than in the preceding species, 

 and there are no costal spots behind it; on the other hand, the dorsal 

 oblique streak is more oblique, passing along the base of the cilia, into 

 which it sends three white streaks. The differences above indicated by 

 the italics induce me to consider the species distinct. 



AXARSIA. 

 A. trimaoulella, Cham. 



I have taken this species also in Kentucky. It was described from 

 Texas. 



DASYCERA. 



D. nonstrigella, n. sp. 



This species differs from D. neicmanejla Clem., and from the two 

 European species, not only by the absence of yellow T marks on the 

 wings, but still more by having the basal three-fourths of the antennae 

 densely clothed with scales ; whereas in those species only a small por- 

 tion is so clothed, and in this species the other fourth is also scaled, 

 though not densely, and the scaling grows less and less toward the 

 apex. It is described from a single 2 taken resting on a leaf in the 

 woods, June 30th. 



Palpi yellow; under surface of third joint brownish. Face yellow, 

 passing on the vertex into metallic yellowish-purple, if I may so describe 

 an indescribable hue. Thorax and upper surface of fore wings rich 

 brownish-purple ; hind wings, abdomen, aud under surface of fore 

 wings purplish-brown (duller, more brownish, and less purple than the 

 upper surface of fore wings); hind legs purple-brown, suffused with yel- 

 lowish (other two pair rubbed in pinning). Alar expansion Q% lines. 

 Kentucky. 



