62 Journal New York Ent. Soc. [Vol. ii. 



Dull rose color throughout, more reddish than rosea, with 

 brown strigse and irrorations. At t. a. and t. p. irregular dark 

 line, the latter duplicated by a streak from apex. Secondaries 

 with three faint transverse blackish lines. Expanse, 35 mm. 



Habitat, Northern New York, New England, Canada. 



Genus Platypteryx Laspeyres. 



1803 — Plalypteryx Laspeykes, Neue Schrift. Ges. Nat. Freunde Berl., Vol. 



IV, p. 2g. 

 1822 — \Drepana Hl'iBXER, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 149. 



P. arcuata Walker. 



1855 — Drepana arcuata Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Vol. V, p. 1164. 

 1862 — Platypteryx falnila Grote, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., p. 59. 



dim. form %Qn\c\x\Si Grote. 



\'i,b2— Platypteryx geiiieiila Grote, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., p. 59. 

 1834 — IDrepana fasciata Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Ilaust., Vol. IV, p. 8; 

 1856— Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Vol. IV, p. 1163. 



race siculifer Packard. 



1872 — Drepana siculifer Packard, Peab. Acad. Sci., Vol. IV, p. 87. 



Pale ocherous or pale straw-yellow with two black discal dots 

 and four narrow undulating bands beside a rusty-brownish one 

 which is straight and runs to apex into a purplish cloud. Second- 

 aries marked with similar undulating bands, most distinct on 

 internal margin. 



The form geniciila is dark-yellow and less distinctly marked. 



Habitat, Northern Atlantic States. 



The race siculifer is larger and more distinctly marked. 



Habitat, California and Pacific Northwest. 



Genus Falcaria Haivorth. 



1809 — Falcaria IIaworth, Lep. Brit., Vol. II, p. 147. 



1864 — Edapteryx PACKARD. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil.. Vol. Ill, p. 275. 



F. bilineata Packard. 



1S64 — Edapteryx bilineata Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. Ill, p. 376. 

 dim. form levis Hiicison. 



1893 — Prionia lci7'is HUDSON, Can. Ent., Vol. XXV, p. 24. 

 Light yellowish ; secondaries very pale. Primaries covered 

 with brown stride and crossed by two parallel, straight, brown 

 lines. A minute brown discal dot. Outer margin faintly shaded 

 with brown. This species is three brooded. The third brood, the 

 form levis, lacks the strigffi. 



Habitat, Northern Atlantic States, 



