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smoky with Avhitish fringes. Head and disc of tbonix white, tegnlae 

 concolorous with fore wings. Expanse 24 mil. Colorado. Named 

 for Prof. C. H. Fernald, whose studies in this group have been 

 so successful!}' inaugurated. 



Strenoloma lunilinea. Grote. 



This generic name is proposed instead of Spiloloma, Grote 

 Bull. B. S. N. S. 1, 12G, a term which is two near Spilosoma to 

 be retained. The species, originally described by me from West 

 Virginia, has been taken near Cincinnati by Mr. Drury and in 

 Dallas Co., Texas, by Mr. Boll- 



Coelodasys telifer. ^'- s. 



$ ? . Size of cinereofrons PacJc, and distinguished by two 

 longitudinal black dashes, one from the base outwardly over sub- 

 median space, the other on the cell continued across the discal 

 spot and along vein 5 and doubled outwardly by a parallel dash 

 on the interspace below. The male has reddish brown primaries, 

 shaded with smoky and the line obsolete. The hindwings whitish 

 and a clouded spot at anal angle. The female dusky brown, shaded, 

 with ashen on costal region. The hind wings smoky fuscous. 

 The female is dusky beneath, the male whitish, fuscous on pri- 

 maries, about costal region. The male expands 38 mil. and was 

 collected by Belfrage (Ko. 526 purple label) in Texas ; the female 

 is sent me by Mr. v. Mesko from Ga., and expands 42 mil. 



Description of Cilia distema. 



By a. R. Grote. 



In Amolita fessa, the male antennae are bi-pectinatc, the branches 

 ciliate, converging, the stem outwardly scaled. The front is flat ; 

 the palpi project, with the third article distinct. In an undescribed' 

 and apparently common Texan Noctuid of similar appearance, which 

 Iproposeto designate as Cilia distema, the male antennae are simple ; 

 the front full, the projected labial palpi have the third article in- 

 distinct. Both species have unarmed, weakly scaled legs and smooth 

 thorax and are pale-colored. Amolita fessa has 12-veined primaries, 

 the cell open, an accessory cell, 7 and 8 divaricate well beyond the 

 extremity of the accessory cell, 9 out of 8 at about inner third. 

 Hind wings 7-veincd, vein 5 wanting. 



