AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



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fuscous, the segments interlined with lighter fuscous, the segmental dorsal tufts 

 distinct, prominent, black on end ; fore wings light gray, finely spattered over 

 with black, giving a uniform, granulated, blackish gray color, the veins a little 

 darkened : a basal, black, distinct cross-line, straight, except with a clean cut 

 angle outwards from submedian to la : an outer corresponding line, running from 

 costa towards middle of outer margin till it reaches vein 5, then returning to 

 cell at posterior angle, then with some waviness to inner margin ; a marginal 

 black line ; discal spots indistinct, large ; hind wings light gray at base, growing 

 to blackish gray outwardly, with marginal black line and faint discal spots ; be- 

 neath gray, theouter cross-line distinctly showing on all wings, even and rounded. 



Colorado, from Mr. Bruce. I have females only, but they are in 

 good condition. 



N. carlotta n. sp.— Expands 42 mm. Thorax below, palpi, head and an- 

 teunie dull fuscous ; the palpi black at end and front, blackish at middle ; collar 

 same color ; thorax above dull fuscous, with a grayish tint. Abdomen fuscous 

 gray, the segments with a shade of ocher brown anteriorly, each segment with a 

 black spot on either side of dorsal line posteriorly, except on second segment, 

 where the black reaches across the segment ; fore wings fuscous, with blackish 

 scales intermixed on basal field, light gray on middle field, blackish fuscous in a 

 broad band beyond outer line, and gray submarginally ; basal line black, indis- 

 tinct near costa, beginning one-third out. rounded, some sinuate, rounding from 

 sulxliscal nearly to base on inner margin ; outer line distinct, parallel with outer 

 margin to 4, rounding inwardly to cell, then continuing its curve striking inner 

 margin two-thirds out; a central broad stripe covering discal spot, straight from 

 costa till it nearly meets the outer line, then subparallel and partly coalescing with 

 it; hind wings light gray, a middle band faintly indicated, becoming evident at 

 middle of inner margin; a distinct outer black line, sinuate across wing; discal 

 spot black, distinct; outer field somewhat darker; beneath fuscous, the lines 

 clearly evident, discal spot quite distinct. 



Charlotte Harbor, Florida, from Mrs. Slosson. 



64. APOCHEIMA Hiib. 

 Verz. 319. 1818. 



Type hispidaria Fab. 



Ithusia Hub., Verz. 319. 1818, type zonaria SchiflF. 

 Nyssia Dup.. Hist. Nat. vii. 283, 1829, type zonaria SchiflT. 



Palpi short, porrect, long haired ; tongue obsolete ; front densely 

 long haired ; antennse of % bipectinate, apex simple, of 9 filiform ; 

 thorax densely long haired above and below, somewhat tufted ; ab- 

 domen densely long hairy ; legs long, haired on femora and tibiae ; 

 hind tibiie of I not swollen, without hair pencil, in both sexes with 

 one pair of spurs; fore wings without fovea below, 12 or 11 veins; 

 hind wings 5 undeveloped, 6 and 7 separate or stemmed, 8 separate 

 from cell ; head retracted, suiall ; female with wings rudimentary, 

 or very little developed. 



Species. — A. rachelce Hulst, n. sp. 



TRANS. AM. KNT. HOC. XXIII. (46) SEPTEMBER. 1H96 



