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Genus 5emyra IValker. 

 1855 — Seinyra Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., pt. V, p. 1130. 

 S. beutenmuelleri Hy. Edivards. 



l%i-] —Limacodes heutetiniuelleri Hv. EDWARDS, Can. Ent., Vol. XIX, p.i45- 



Squammation and aspect of 9 Phobetron pitheciiini. Primaries 

 deep-brown, irrorate with bluish scales, with irregular patches of 

 pale ocherous at middle of costa, beyond cell and along internal 

 margin, these spots scarcely confluent. The apex, to middle of 

 outer margin, pale ocherous. Secondaries blackish. Thorax with 

 the colors of primaries intermixed ; abdomen brown. Expanse, 

 22 mm. S' unknown. 



Habitat^ Florida. 



Genus Adoneta Clemens. 



\%bQ—Adoneta Clemens, Pioc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., Vol. XII, p. 158. 



Synopsis of species. 



Fore wings brown, shaded with blaciiish and gray. 



Moderate in size, 18— 20 mm., slightly shaded . . . spinuloides. 



Very small, 14— 15 mm., darkly shaded pygmaea. 



Fore wings quite uniform, not shaded ...... leucosigma. 



A. spinuloides Herrich-Schoffer. 



1854 — Z/wrtcw/d-j jr/?/«</(7?V^.f Herrich-Scii^ffer, Saml. Ausser. Schmett., 

 Vol. I, f{. 187—8. 



i860 — Adoneta valuta Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., Vol. XII, p. 158. 



i%t<i— Liinacodes ferrigera Walker, Cat. Brit. Mui., pt. XXXII, p. 486. 

 Primaries chocolate brown with oval black discal spot and 

 large terminal spots ; a sub-basal and sub-apical narrow transverse 

 white streak, on internal margin and costa respectively, the sub- 

 apical one curved and the two connected by an arcuate row of black 

 dots. Within these lines, the wing is shaded with whitish and 

 black, and in some specimens, these shades prevail sub-terminally 

 also. Secondaries pale brown. Expanse, 18 — 20 mm. 



Habitat, Atlantic States. 



A. pygmaea Grotc &-- Robinson. 



1868 — Adoneta pygmtva Grote & Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. II, 

 p. 189. 



Primaries brownish or wholly suffused with blackish with 

 white linear marks as in spinuloides. No terminal line. Expanse, 

 14 — 15 mm. 



Habitat, Texas. 



