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female Quernaria. This larger New Mexican species, in which the male 

 shows no white, and the female much less than the figure, must be difierent. 

 I am not certain that the two are associated correctly, and thought the fe- 

 male might be a form of Quernaria, and the male another species. Cupid- 

 aria is suspected to be the male of Quernaria, and with the differences in the 

 lines in the two specimens before me, the possibility is that it may be so, in 

 which case there can be no doubt that the present is distinct. At the mo- 

 ment, I cannot compare Abbot and Smith again, nor have I enough material 

 to decide. Pmnulataria Grote, not mentioned Packard, can be neither of 



these species. 



Phigalia Lixaria n. s. 



Male. Dark blackish-gray. Body slender. Antennae pectinate. Disc 

 crossed by three distict sub-parallel black lines, outwardly bent on costal 

 region; the middle one more diffuse, being the median shade. A discal 

 curved streak. Subterminal line somewhat dentate, broken, with a faint 

 whitish shade. A terminal series of black dots. Hind wings pale fuscous, 

 with two narrow faint lines and discal dots. Beneath pale, discolorous, no 

 markings; a dot on secondaries. Expanse o^ m.\\. New Mexico. Number 

 1009. 



Two other specimens belong, perhaps, to closely allied species, but on this 

 slender material I do not describe them. One is larger and a little rubbed, 

 while the type is fresh; the other smaller than type, and this last seems to 

 have the antennae less heavily pectinate. 



This species differs from Strigataria, by the s. t. line being more bent and fur- 

 ther from apices at costa, by the outer mesial line being more exserted medially, 

 by the median shade being more diffuse and not running close to the anterior 

 median line on the internal margin,bythedarkercolor, the inner line on second- 

 aries straight, with a median tooth and having discal dots; the lines on fore 

 wings are distinct and black, the outer median line angulated ; the new species 

 is smoother and less irrorate. Following the variability oC Strigataria, I would 

 regard one of the above-mentioned specimens (No. 1010) as a variety; it is 

 not quite fresh, and seems to differ but little. The other, with paler hind- 

 wings and smaller, seems different because the antennal pectinations appear 

 shorter than in both the type and the variety of Lixaria. 



Lychnosea n. gen. 

 Allied to Sicya and Heterolccha. Labial palpi extending straight forward 

 beyond the front, which they exceed, the terminal joint concealed by the long 

 vestiture. Male antennie heavily pectinated, long, the pectinations tapering 

 slightly and then becoming suddenly reduced at tip. Female antennae simple. 

 Fore wings with a distinct angulation in the female on exterior border, 

 rounded in male; on secondaries a blunt point in both sexes. Abdomen not 

 exceeding secondaries. Hind tibia) with two pair of spurs. 



Lychnosea Aulularia n. s. 

 Dull yellow. In the male the terminal border of primaries is washed with 



