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In Cilia disten'O, the new species, the forewings are 12-veined ; 

 cell incompletely closed ; an accessory cell ; 7 and 8 together just 

 beyond the closure of the cell ; 9 out of 8, at about outer third ; 

 10 from upper margin of accessory cell, nearer the origin of 8 than 

 6 to the origin of 7; 6 is thrown off from the cross-vein, here 

 distinct and angulate. Hind wings 8-veined, cell open ; vein 5 ter- 

 minating on the incomplete cross-vein, which is no more than a 

 fold or thickening of the tegument. 



The ornamentation of A nulita fessa, taken by Mr. Schwarz in 

 Florida, consists of a reddish suffusion over two fuscous bands, one 

 running from the base of the fore wing centrally and sweeping up- 

 wards to apices, the other from below apices obliguely inwardly to 

 internal margin, on the pale ocher ground. In Cilia distema, the 

 wing is whitish or ochery white, "with a dotted exterior curved line 

 and two discal black points, widely separate. The hind wings and 

 fringers are whitish, immaculate. Beneatli the palpi and legs are 

 smoky ; the undersurface of the wings is darker than the upper with 

 indistinct discal dots. The thorax and head above are whitish. Ux- 

 panse 25 to 26 mil. Enterprise, Fla., Mr. Sahwarz; Bosque Co., 

 Texas, Mr. Belfrage (Xo. 551), throughout the month of June. The 

 genus Amolita, together with Scolecocampa, Eucalyptera and Dory odes, 

 is placed by me in the check list between Gortyna and Heliophila 

 (Leucania,) but it is not unlikely that a more natural position for 

 these slender bodied forms may be found. Cilia differs at once 

 from Eucalyptera and Scolecocampa by the shorter labial palpi ; the 

 new genus seems to fall in between these and Amolita, so that a 

 natural sequence of the genera would be Scolecocampa, {Eucalyptera^ 

 Cilia, Amolita, Doryodes. This arrangement can only be considered 

 as provisional with our present knowledge of the species. 



On the Genus Argyria. Huebner. 



By Prof. C. II. Ferxald, State College, Oroxo, Maixe. 



The confusion in which the species of this genus seem to be, 

 in many of the collections of this country, has led me to examine 

 them somewhat more closely than I might otherwise have done. 



In 1773, Drury, in the seoond volume of his Illustrations of 

 Natural History, described a small white moth from New England, 

 under the name of Plialena Pyralis nivalis, illustrating the same on 



