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Though probably forming the type of a new genus, I am safe 

 in referring this very singular insect closely to Walker's genus 

 Artaxa, hitherto only known from India and Australia. Should 

 further investigation, and a knowledge of the earlier stages prove 

 my present course to be wrong, I think it wisest, anyway, to place 

 a new insect provisionally in a very closely allied genus, rather 

 than create a new one, which extended inquiry may prove to be 

 one already established. I append Walker's diagnosis of y^^'/^.^i^^t, 

 merely remarking that in the present species the only differences 

 I can see are that the antennae are shorter than in Walker's 

 genus, and the spurs of the hind tibiae are short, rather than long. 

 In color, general structure and neuration, the species now de- 

 scribed reminds one forcibly of the Australian Artaxa chry- 

 sopJiila. 



" Genus 7. Artaxa. 



" Male and female. Body rather slender. Proboscis very 

 " short. Palpi hairy, short ; second joint very much longer than 

 "the first, third joint conical, very minute. Legs slender; hind 

 " tibia with four long spurs. Wings broad. Forewings with the 

 " first, second and third inferior veins near together, fourth about 

 " four times further from the third than the third is from the 

 "second. Hind wings extending beyond the abdomen. Male. 

 "Antennae deeply pectinated. Female. Antennae minutely pec- 

 tinated." F. Walker. 



Cat. Lepidopt. Heteroc. B. Mus.. Pt. 4, Page 795. 



EUCHETES INOPINATUS. n. sp. 



Primaries very pale fawn color, palest along the internal and 

 posterior margins. Costa with buff dash at the base, above and 

 below. Secondaries paler than the forewings, being almost a sor- 

 did white. The whole wings beneath are dull sordid white, with- 

 out marks, except the buff dash at base of primaries. Head, base 

 of fore tibiae, fore coxae, and upper side of abdomen buff, the latter 

 with a row of small black dorsal spots. Tibiae and tarsi, and under 

 side of abdomen very pale fawn color. 



Exp. wings. 27 m. m. Length of body. 11 m. m. 



I (^. Indian River, Florida. 



Type. Coll. Hy. Edwards. 



FAM. LITHOSIDvE. 



Hypoprepia inculta. n. sp. 



Primaries dull mouse color, with pale dash along the median 

 nervule and a black streak above it, only visible with a lens. 

 Head, thorax and fringe concolorous. Secondaries very pale sil- 

 very drab, with pink tinge, chiefly at the abdominal margin. 

 Fringes mouse color. Abdomen drab, with the tip dull orange. 

 Under side same as the upper, but slightly paler. The legs and 

 antennae are dull mouse color. 



Exp. wings. 26 m. m. Length of body. 9 m. m. 



