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wings are considerably more bent downward at apex, i <$. Texas. 

 Coll. Meyer. 



2. Ripula virginaria sp. now Expands 44 mm. Palpi brown tawny. Thorax, 

 abdomen and wings pure white. The fore wings have a triangular spot near apex, 

 black outwardly, reddish and olive otherwise, and another narrow olive spot near anal 

 angle. On the hind wing is a divided olive band faint anteriorly, wavy on both sides, 

 inwardly forming with the inclosed wing space a continuous waved white line. 

 Beneath pure white. Fore and middle legs tawny, hind legs white. 



i ,j\ Florida. Coll. Hy. Edwards. Very near to R. mexicaria 

 Guen. but it differs in design of markings on wings, and in the color of 

 the legs. 



3. Eutrapela anfractata sp. now Expands 40 mm. Head, thorax, abdomen 

 and ground color of wings, of an even light pearl gray. Wings with two darkish 

 lines, the ba^al sinuous, curved outward, faint and on fore wings only; the outer 

 slightly waved, straight however in its general direction, reflected near apex at an 

 angle more obtuse than is usual, and with the reflected part not otraight but curved 

 outwardly to co.->ta. The outer lines are edged with wdiitish outwardly, and shade 

 gradually and broadly into the ground color. There is a broad submarginal fawn 

 shading also. Discal spot distinct. Beneath light even gray, sometimes with an 

 ochry shade. Lines wanting or outer lines very faintly perceptible. 



2 cf » ' 9 • A." z : Coll. ^y- Edwards, Hulst. Nearest nubilala 

 Pack, and catenulata Git. It is quite possible that all ate variations of 

 one species, imfi aetata being the Arizona form and catenulata the form 

 having the median space fawn brown, darker than the rest of the wing. 



4. Tetracis mellitularia sp. nov. Expands 35 -45 mm. 



This is the species described by Packard, Geom. Moths p. 551 and 

 figured plate XIII, f. 43, and called T. paralieliaria . The description 

 and figure are of one of the darker specimens. The original description 

 by Packard of 1\ paralieliaria, Bost. Pro. Nat. Hist. Vol. XVI, p. 3S, is 

 very brief, simply, "lighter than T. truxaliala. A fresh specimen from 

 Mr. Behrens is ochreous." The specimen labelled "type" in the Museum 

 of Comp. Zool. Cambridge, Mass., is probably the fresh specimen 

 referred to, and is the insect figured plate XIII, f. 42.. But this is not 

 the same species with fig. 43 but is another, found commonly in Colorado 

 and less so in Arizona and California and which varies from reddish 

 ochreous to light ochreous. To attach the name of Packard to the one 

 species we have what there is of the original description, the type speci- 

 men, and the fig. 42, pi. XIII. To attach it to the species I call melli- 

 tularia we have the description given in Geom. Moths, p. 551, and fig. 

 43, pi. XIII. The name it seems to me must go with the original de- 

 scription and the type. T. paralieliaria Pack, as thus determined, was 

 afterwards named Eurymene excelsa by Mr. Strecker, Report Explor. and 

 Stirv. Dept. of Missouri, RufTner, 1878, p. 1.S63, pi. 2, f. 9. And a 



