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Head brown, whitish between antennae. Antennae whitish. Palpi whitish, 

 brown toward tips, longer than in the several related species preceding, oblique, 

 but long enough to reach bases of antennae if upturned ; slender. Legs pale 

 brown or brownish white, the first two pairs brown inside. Thorax and ab- 

 domen brownish white, the latter with dorsal, ventral and ventro-lateral brown 

 stripes, sometimes faint. 



Primaries brownish white more or less suffused with brown, sometimes 

 heavily. The complete markings include dark brown spots at tips of veins in 

 both lobes, a brown spot contiguous to base of cleft preceded by a smaller spot 

 a little nearer inner margin, which is the isolated outer end of powdery line 

 reaching about half way from it to the base, a basal powdery line below the 

 cell and a subcostal basal line. We have specimens in which all of these are 

 lacking, and they are rarely all present. In one peculiar variation the spot at 

 base of cleft is faint, while the one preceding it is conspicuous. Fringes and 

 secondaries approximately concolorous, the latter sometimes browner. Expanse 

 30-41 mm. 



Distribution : Florida to Arizona. We have specimens taken in 

 all months but April, May and Nov. The American Museum collec- 

 tion contains a S from N. J. 



The species is so extremely variable in markings that we cannot 

 ])lace one specimen from Arizona, which e.xpands only 26 mm., here 

 with certainty. It has the long palpi of balanotes, however, and may 

 be an abnormally dwarfed specimen. As a rule the brownish wings 

 distinguish the species, but some immaculate specimens are sufficiently 

 ochreous to be confused with (jrandis. In that species the palpi are 

 distinctly shorter. 



In sending specimens to Mr. Meyrick for comparison with his 

 types we erroneously identified balanotes. Later on, to verify our 

 corrected opinion of the species, he very kindly compared the types 

 of balanotes and aqitila, both in his collection, and pronounced them 

 sexes of the same species. Balanotes was described from a single 

 Florida specimen and aqnila from a single Texas example. The de- 

 scription of the former immediately precedes that of the latter. 



The life history is unknown. 



44. OlDAEMATOPHORUS GRANDIS Fish. PI. XLVTI, fig. 7. PI. LIII, 



fig. 12. 



Liaplilus (jmiidis Fish, Can. F.nt. XIII. 141, 18S1. 

 Alihilo grandis Fernald, Smith's List Lcp. N. .\. 87, 1891. 

 Ptcrophonis grandis Fernald, Ptcr, N. A. 50, pi. V, ff. 9, 10, 1898 

 Id.. Bull. 52 U- S. N. M. 446. 1902. 



