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Penthina matutina, Grote, Plate 2, fig. 9, primary wing. 
White. Head and thorax whitish. Primaries whitish with scattered dark 
scales ; basal patch incomplete superiorly about the middle of the wing, with 
scattered dark costal scales. Middle brownish band continued with distinct 
edges marked by blackish scales. The succeeding whitish underspace is con- 
tracted medially by the more diffuse apical clouding which extends beyond 
the curved line. Costal marks minute. Beneath fuscous with whitish costal 
edge and more distinct regularly divaricate dark streaks. 
Habitat, Texas (Belfrage, */.). 
I have only a single specimen in which the secondaries are defec- 
tive, but the species is quite distinct from Blakeana, which it 
resembles. 
Penthina toreuta, Grote, Plate 2, fig. 10, 4. 
I refer this very distinctly marked and easily distinguished species with 
some hesitation to the present genus. Uniformly dark silky wood brown. 
The primaries are crossed centrally by two parallel slightly arcuate livid raised 
metallic lines, Three costo-apical pale dots supported by metallic drops, the 
third surmounting the narrower metallic terminal line which is interrupted on 
submedian interspace ; fringes burnished. Under the glass the squamation is 
seen to consist of dark scales with paler overlying tips. Hind wings fuscous 
with pale fringes. Beneath paler, silky ; fore wings with an ochreous stain, 
pale costal streaks and a faint even pale terminal shade on the margin fol- 
lowed by a dark hair line. 
Habitat, Pennsylvania. 
Grapholitha distema, Grote. 
A tiny blackish silky species resembling the European compositella, but 
with only two white lines on the internal margin of the primaries. Eight 
white costal marks disposed in pairs, crowded towards the black apices and 
becoming straighter and shorter ; the first pair more oblique and divaricate. 
A silvery subterminal streak runs from opposite the cell over the median 
nervules tapering to internal angle. Secondaries fuscous with pale fringes. 
Beneath iridescent, greenish in certain lights, with minute white costal dots 
over the outer half of the wing. Body scales beneath whitish. 
Habitat, New York; Pennsylvania. 
