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Mecoceras Peninsularia. n. s. 



S . Possibly only a modification of Nictocris. Dull green, 

 with the costa at base showing a reddish shade and dotted with 

 metallic points. A black discal dot. A median, faint, reddish 

 shade. An outer line of dark dots, An inner dotted line hardly 

 perceptible. Wing with sparsely scattered black scales. Hind 

 wings with the reddish median shade, including two white cellular 

 spots ; an outer reddish line marked with dark dots ; another faint 

 line before the margin and a line of black dots on margin edged 

 within with pale. Abdomen with four dorsal black dots at wide 

 intervals. I find no note of this in Guenee. Palpi ensiform or 

 curved, with small terminal joint. Antennae finely bipectinate. 

 Wings entire. Feet long and narrow. Front and palpi reddish. 

 Beneath reflecting the markings, pale ; the dotted dentate line on 

 secondaries running at variance with median shade. Indian 

 River. Expajisc, 40 mil. 



Almodes Rivularia. n. s. 



$. Possibly a modification of the Haytien Terraria,hu\. 

 quite different from Guenee's description. Of an olive brownish, 

 somewhat pallid ; the median lines principally marked on costa 

 by broad, dark shades on fore wings above. A medan line con- 

 tinuous. A black discal mark and scattered elevated' black scale 

 points. Hind wings dentate, concolorous; the discal raised point 

 black and white. Beneath costa dotted with black, with a distinct 

 reddisJi fliisJi; discal points black. Palpi tipped with dark. An- 

 tennae finely and lengthily plumose. The wings above are crossed 

 by interrupted, faint, dark lines, like a Boarmia ; the hind wings 

 best marked. The veins are indicated on fore wings, where the 

 outer line is dotted. On hind wings there is a marginal black 

 line edged within with whitish. The ground color is more brown 

 than " testaceous ;" there is a sprinkling of black scales. The 

 color is of a cadaverous olive brown, and the insect looks quite 

 unlike Mecoceras, until palpi and antennee are compared. Meco- 

 ceras, Almodes and Byssodes, all occurring in Florida, give our 

 fauna a tropical representation not before suspected. Packard 

 mentions none of these nor Urapteryx. Expanse, 40 mil. 



Properly speaking, we should not include the fauna of South 

 Florida in our North American Lists. It must be studied in 

 connection with that of Cuba, Hayti and Jamaica. There is a 

 species oi Nelphe very like CoJifinis H.-S., from Cuba. We have 

 the following, which are either modifications of Cuban forms, or, 

 perhaps, not even sufficiently distinct to bear a different generic 

 or specific name. In some cases the forms are apparently dis- 

 tinct. 



Florida. Cuba. 



Didasys Belee, Gr. Burtia Rubella. Gr. 



Lymire Edwardsil, Gr. Lymire melanocephala, Walk. 



Cautethia Grotei, Hy, Edw. Caulethia Grotei, Hy, Edw. 



= Noctuiformis, H.-S, non Walk. 



