OF NORTH AMERICA. 17 



Genus, PSYCHOMOKPHA, Harris. 



"Body, slender, hairj' at the tip. Palpi, slender, nearly horizontal, 

 extending a little beyond the clypeus, covered with loose hairs so as 

 to conceal the joints. Tongue, moderate, spirally rolled. Antennse 

 in the male pectinated on both sides, the pectinations rather short, 

 simple in the female. Wings, short, somewhat triangular, with the 

 outer margins rounded; discal areolet of the hind wings short, closed 

 by a sinuous vein. Abdomen, not extending beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs, short, hairy; spurs of the hind tibiae, three, slender, nearly con- 

 cealed by the hairs." 



Doubleday, in his letters to Dr. Harris, (Harris. Ent. Corn, 1869, 

 pp. 130, and 137,) expresses his belief that this genus ought to be 

 placed near Brephos among the noctuae, stating on the authority of 

 Abbot, that although the larva has the full compliment of legs, it 

 seems to be a semilooper in its walk. Dr. Harris seems to have been 

 of the same opinion. The neuration of the wings appears, to me, to 

 entitle it to the present position to which it has been assigned by Grote 

 and Robinson, in their catalogue of the North American species of 

 these groups. 



1.-PSYCH0M0RPHA EPIMENIS, (PI, 1, fig. 10). 

 Noctua epimenis, Drury, App. HI. Exot. Ins. HI, 39, pi. 29, fig. 2. 



Psychornorpha epimenis, Harris. 



Glaucopis epimenis, Morris, Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. 136. (1862.) 



Psychomorpha epimenis, Clem., Syn. Lep. N. Am. App., p. 297. 

 (1862). 



Brown. Head, thorax, and abdomen, with all their appendages, 

 black. Anterior wings, rich brown, sprinkled with light, metallic blue 

 scales, which form a narrow band close to, and parallel with, the outer 

 margin, and marked with a large, ovate, transverse, whitish yellow 

 patch beyond the middle of the wing. The spot touches the costa, but 

 does not reach to the inner margin, and is notched on the inner side 

 above the median vein. Posterior wings, deep brown, with a large, 

 dark, orange red patch, occupying nearly the entire outer half of the 

 wing, scarcely touching the outer margin, and tapering rapidly to the 

 anal angle. 



Beneath, as above; except that there are dark, metallic blue scales 

 on the costa of the posterior wings, and none on the anterior wings, 



