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gray with broken black terminal line, fringes gray. Secondaries even smoky, 
scarcely paler towards base; fringes cut by a smoky basal line. Beneath, pri- 
maries smoky with costal tuft of ¢ paler; faint traces of t. p. line of upper 
side visible, especially on costa where it is followed by a pale spot; secondaries 
paler, rather ochreous, with dark spot near base of wing and faint smoky 
dentate postmedian line, not attaining inner margin; both wings with terminal 
dark line and pale fringes. Expanse 19-22 mm. 
Hasitrat. Marco, Fla. (May 15-31). 2 6, 4 2. Types, Coll. Barnes. 
This species was bred from larvae found webbing the terminal 
twigs of scrub oak; it is close to floridella Hist. from which it can 
readily be separated by the color of secondaries. It is also related to 
melanogrammos Zell. but differs in several details from the descrip- 
tion, especially in the darker secondaries; if Hulst has been correct 
in his identifications the larvae of Zeller’s species are pine feeders, 
which would point to distinct species. Hulst, however, is noted for 
his poor determinations and until the types have been carefully 
studied some element of doubt must exist; we consider it wise, how- 
ever, to fix this oak-feeder with a name. We follow Hampson in 
our generic reference. 
PHYCITINAE 
ACROBASIS TENUELLA sp. nov. (PI. IV, Fig. 8). 
6. Palpi and head ochreous, former shaded with purple-brown; thorax 
largely purplish; abdomen ochreous, tufted with black; primaries longer and 
narrower than is usual in this genus, purple brown, suffused with white, which 
color is predominant in basal and costal half of median areas; basal area 
slightly tinged with ochreous; t. a. line broad, oblique, ochreous, preceded in 
lower portion by a deep purple-brown scale tuft and bordered outwardly with 
purple; discal dots almost obsolete, very small, separate; t. p. line very in- 
distinct, indicated by slight blackish marks on veins; s. t. line wanting; fringes 
reddish purple. Secondaries pale smoky, hyaline, with darker border and pale 
ochreous line at base of fringes which are tinged with smoky. Benea‘h, pri- 
maries pale smoky with ochreous costa, black dot at base and short black 
streak in cell; secondaries whitish with ochreous costa and black streak on 
subcostal vein é€xtending from base to middle of wing and faint black mark 
on median vein beyond base. 
9. Deeper purple than ¢ with less white suffusion; t. a. line tending 
to purplish; t. p. line slightly better defined, dentate on the veins, followed 
by similar s. t. line very close to outer margin, the two separated by a pale 
shade; a median oblique shade line above inner margin. Expanse 18 mm. 
Hasitat. Everglade, Fla. (Apr. 8-15). Ft. Myers, Fla. (Apr. 16-23). 
1 ¢,2 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 
