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1. Stenoptilia RHYNCHOSiAE Dyar. PI. XLII, fig. 9. PI. XLIX, 

 fig. 14. 



Pterophorus rhynchosiac Dyar, Psyche VIII, 249, 1898 (biol.). 

 Fernald, Bull. 52 U. S. N. M. 446. 1902. 

 Meyrick, Gen. Ins. C, 16, 1910. 

 Id , Wagner's Lep. Cat. pars 17, 22, 1913. 

 Barnes & McDunnough, Check List 151, 1917. 

 Grossbeck, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. XXXVII, 135, 1917. 



Pale yellow. Antennae with a broad stripe above. Palpi rather long, 

 slender, a brown stripe on either side; second joint oblique, third porrect. 

 Abdomen with a number of fine brown longitudinal lines. Legs whitish with 

 brown stripes and shades ; spurs long. 



Primaries yellowish tinged with gray-brown especially toward costa. Cleft 

 preceded by a heavy brown transverse blotch or by two spots, of which the 

 inner may be absent. Cell with a small brown spot just before middle of wing. 

 Tips of veins in both lobes with brown dashes extending through fringes. 

 Fringes of gray-brown and yellowish hairs, the bases pale. Secondaries dark 

 brownish gray with yellowish bases. Expanse about 18 mm. 



Distribution : Florida ; June, July. 



The type in tlie National Museum is without locality label. It 

 is accompanied by a specimen taken at Miami. In addition to these 

 we have seen only the two specimens from Stemper in coll. Barnes. 



The genitalia are very remarkable and lead us to question this 

 placing of the species, but the neuration is distinctly that of Stenoptilia. 

 The anal angle of the first lobe of the primaries is scarcely indicated 

 and that of the second slight, but both can be discerned. 



The type was reared, and Dyar's original description includes the 

 following notes on the larva : 



"Larva. Downy, pale green, with short white hairs. Pale green, the 

 body tapering a little posteriorly; no marks except a very faint, whitish sub- 

 dorsal line along warts i and ii ; warts small, i and ii separate, but somewhat 

 approximate; a small wart (iiia) below and behind iii ; iv + v distinct with 

 a small wart (iii b) behind; skin densely covered with veiy short, white, club- 

 tipped secondary hairs. Feet short. 



"On the young leaves of a trailing plant (Rhynchosia) at Miami, Fia., 

 December." 



2. Stenoptilia farva Walsingham. PI. XLII, fig. 12. PI. XLIX, 



fig. 10. 



Lioptilus ? parvus Walsingham, Pter. Cal. Ore. 55, pi. Ill, f. 12, 1880. 

 Alucila ? parva Feniald, Smith's List Lep. N. A. 87, 1891. 



