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Abdomen without tufts. Labial palpi well developed, hardly exceeding the 
vertex, thickly scaled ; third joint proportionally long. External margin of 
the wings waved. Legs closely scaled; fore tibiae shortened and with a 
swelling, more thickly haired. Antennae scaled above, thickly ciliate beneath, 
with a lateral longer bristle on the sides of each joint. Wings wide; size 
rather large ; body proportionally slender. Squamation smooth and flattened, 
without tufts; between the antennae the scales have a forward direction with- 
out forming a prominent interantennal tuft. Head proportionally large. 
Collar discolorous, somewhat wide; thorax square in front, rather heavy ; 
abdomen proportionally slender, tapering, fully as long as the hind wings, 
Differs from Leucanitis in the middle tibiae being alone spinose ; 
from Catocala in the waved margin, smooth vestiture, and concol- 
orous wings; from Pseudophia by the non-spinose hind tibiae; 
from Haryeya by the spinose middle tibiae, less thickly scaled 
middle and hind legs, broader wings with waved external margins, 
stouter palpi and slenderer shape. The ornamentation recalls 
Megachyta lituralis, and certain of the Geometridae. 
Spiloloma lunilinea, Grote. 
6.—Pale brownish dove color, Collar darker; body concolorous. Fore 
wings with obsolete ornamentation. Costal edge with four distinct deep 
brown liturate spots marking the inception of the extra-basal, transverse 
anterior, median shade and transverse posterior lines. Below these the 
transverse lines are merely indicated by minute nervular dots. The median 
shade is very faint, linear, somewhat ochreous. The ordinary spots are obsolete. 
Subterminal line faintly indicated, marked on costa and preceded by two 
costal marks. A darker shade over the median nervules on terminal 
space. Hind wings concolorous, with the t. p. line continuous and formed 
by minute nervular dots, and the pale subterminal, faintly indicated. Beneath, 
without markings, except a quite distinct continued dark narrow extra-mesial 
common lunulated line drawn across both wings, and accentuated on costal 
region of primaries. A faint discal shade spot on the hind wings. 
Expanse,50m.m. Habitat, West Virginia (coll. Theo. L. Mead, 
No. 148). 
Our actual knowledge of our Moths, and more especially the 
Noctuidae, is yet too indifferent and our collections too meagre, to 
allow us to draw any stable conclusions with regard to their geo- 
graphical distribution. While certain species occur from California 
