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The unique male type from Ft. Myers, Fla., May, is in the Barnes 

 collection, where it is now accompanied by a female from St. Peters- 

 burg, Fla., Sept. The pale dash is well marked in both. Neither 

 specimen is reared. 



6. Stenoptilia mengeh Fernald. PI. XI^II, fig. 10. PI. XLIX, 



fig. 16. 

 Stenoptilia mengdi Fernald, Pter. N. A. 60, 1898. 

 Id., Bull. 52 U. S. N. M. 151, 1902. 

 Meyrick, Gen. Ins. C, 19, 1910. 

 Id., Wagner's Lep. Cat. pars 17, 28, 1913. 

 Barnes & McDiinnough, Check List 151, 1917. 



"Expanse of wings, 20 mm. Head, palpi, thora.x, abdomen and legs dark 

 ashy gray. A fine white line occurs over each eye. 



"Fore wings ashy gray and glistening; a few dark fuscous scales on the 

 first lobe form an ill-defined longitudinal stripe on the middle; a fuscous spot 

 at the end of the cleft and a less distinct one on the middle of the celb Hind 

 wings ashy gray. Allied to S. exclamationis and S. semicosttUa. 



"Early stages and food plant unknown. 



"Described from ten specimens, in poor condition, in the collection of 

 the American Entomological Society, taken by Mr. L. W. Mengel at Mc- 

 Comiack's Bay, North Greenland. * * * ". 



This is all that Fernald wrote about the species, and we are able 

 to add only a few notes taken from the three specimens in the Fer- 

 nald collection. Two of these are "types," both males. The third, 

 also a male, is in the Barnes collection through the kindness of Proi. 

 H. T. Fernald. In all of these we are able to discern a dark dorsal 

 dot in the hind margin of the first abdominal segment. This is scarcely 

 evident against the dark ground color, but we have qualified our key 

 to embrace it. A single male from Colo. (Bruce) in the National 

 Museum is slightly paler than the types, but in our opinion referable 

 to this species without doubt. The primaries show a slight sprinkling 

 of whitish scales, and the abdomen has a trace of the one spot. It 

 would seem from this that the species is arctic and alpine, rather than 

 limited to Greenland, and it may prove to be the same as one of the 

 species described from Arctic Europe. The male genitalia are much 

 like those of pterodactyla with a few differences in the valves. 



7. Stenoptilia exclam.vtigxis Walsingham. PI. XLII, fig. 11, 14. 



PI. XLIX, fig. 11. 

 Mimi'scoptHus cxciawationis Walsingham. Pter. Cal. Ore. 32. pi. 11, f. 10, 1880. 



