White ; costa at base and a broad median band blackish 

 brown, the latter with metallic scales and narrowly divided below 

 median vein into rounded patches. A curved smoky subterminal 

 line. A dark terminal shade. Secondaries smoky brown out- 

 wardly. Expanse, 17 mm. 



Habitat, Northern Atlantic States. 



A. cilicoides Grotr. 



1873 — (Jkote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. I, p. 175. 



Chalk white ; on outer half of wing the terminal portion of 

 median space is shaded with smoky, enclosing a raised blotch of 

 black metallic scales at end of cell ; a curved smoky subterminal 

 line. Secondaries white, with a smoky shading at margin. Ex- 

 panse, 16 mm. [Clrote]. 



Habitat, Atlantic States. 



\J Genus Hypoprepia H'ubncr. 



1825 — HiiBNEK, Zuti. e.\ Schmett, Vol. Ill, p. 21. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Ground color of primaries entirely red. 



Hind wings with broad lead colored iiorder .... miniata. 



This border lacking var. subornata. 



Ground color partly yellow, partly red. / 



Lead colored border on primaries moderate, border of hinds wings 



narrow ......... fucosa. 



Lead color predominating, border of secondaries broad . var. plumbea. 



Ground color entirely yellowish cadaverosa. 



Fore wing nearly entirely gray, thinly scaled .... inculta. 



H. miniata Kirby. 



1857 — KiRBV, Richardson's Faun. Bor. Amer., Vol. IV, p. 305. 



vittata Harris. 



1S41 — H.^RRis, Rep. Ins. Mass., p. 241. 



var. subornata N'eumoegeii c^ Dyar. 



1893 — Neumoeghn & DvAR, Can. Ent., Vol. XXV, p. 124. 



Red ; antennae black. A broad stripe near costa, another 

 from base to internal angle, and a short one from end of median 

 vein to outer margin, as well as the fringe, dark lead color. A 

 broad border on secondaries, occupying half the wing, also lead 

 color but sometimes absent (var. sulwniata). Abdomen frequently 

 more or less lead color centrally. Expanse, 30-40 mm. 



Habitat, North Atlantic States westward. 



