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1. Feltia DUCEXS. 



Mas. Cinerea; thorax fasciis anticis nicjricantihiis ; alee anticcs 

 apud discum fusccB nigro strigatce, macula discali testacea, 

 margine pallidiore nigroque conspersa, linea albida interiore 

 fiircata, fascia exteriore pallida^ lunulis marginalibus nigris, 

 venis ex parte albis ; posticcB sordide albidce, marginibiis latis 

 fnscescentibus. 



Male, Cinereous. Thorax with blacldsh bands in front. 

 Fore wings mostly brown, and streaked with black in the disk ; 

 discal mark testaceous, with a paler border, and speckled with black ; 

 an interior irrefjular whitish line forked hindward near the base ; a 

 pale outer band dividing the brown part in the disk from that along 

 the exterior border, where there is a row of black lunules ; veins 

 partly white. Hind wings dingy whitish, with broad brownish bor- 

 ders. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Orilla. West Canada. From Mr. Bush's collection. 



Subfiim. 3. EPISEMIDES. 



Episemides, Guen. Noct. i. ]6S. 



A. Palpi ascendentes. - - - 1. Heliophobus, ^oi^rf. 



B. Palpi porrecti. 



A. Antennarum articulus 2us 3o quadruplo longior. 



A. Abdomen alas posticus triente superans. 2. Eptsema, Ochs. 



B. Abdomen alas posticas perpaullo superans. 



3. Char^as, Steph. 



B. Antennarum articulus 3us 2i triente longior. 



4. Pachetka, Guen. 



Genus 1. HELIOPHOBUS. 



Corpus robustum, pilosissimum. Proboscis mediocriter longa. 

 Palpi validi, pilosi, ascendentes; articulus 3us lougi-conicus, 2i 

 quadrante non longior. Antennae corporis dimidio non longiores. 

 Abdomen alas posticas triente superans. Pedes pilosissimi ; tibife 

 posticsB calcaribus quatuor longis. Alae mediocriter latas ; anticce 

 signatae, venis pallidis, apud costara rectse, apice subangulatae, mar- 

 gine exteriore vix obliquo. Mas. — Antennae late pectinatas. Ab- 

 domen apice fasciculatum. 



