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color, but the apical cilia and those extending to the dorsum are pale 

 chestnut-brownish. 



Alar expanse. — 7 mm. 



Hindwings pale yellowish siray, the base slightly thickened; cilia 

 slightly coppery gray. 



Abdomen and legs pale yellowish gra}'. 



7V2>f.— Male. Cat. No'. 10356, U.S.N.M. 



Habitat. — New York (Beutenmiiller collection ) . I "f^nique . Walsing- 

 Imm determined, No. 4991, 1906. 



A small, slender, delicate species, decidedly tlistinct from any 



known form. 



Genus SCARDIA Treitschke. 



SCARDIA GRACILIS, new species. 



Antennas. cUstinctly ciliate, the joints tufted ; whitish ocherous, annu- 

 late with fuscous. 



Maxillary palpi strongly developed, folded; .whitish ocherous. 



Labial palpi whitish ocherous on their inner side, the median joint 

 almost as long as the terminal, tinged with brownish externally on 

 the terminal joint and on the median joint to its apex. 



Head and thorax whitish ocherous; the latter with a brownish fus- 

 cous band across its middle, the tegulae anteriorly brownish fuscous. 



Forewings narrow, elongate, the costa slightly bulged near the base, 

 apex rounded, termen oblique; whitish ocherous, much clouded and 

 speckled with brownish fuscous, which appears in a series of costal 

 spots of varying size and in a large median costal blotch which extends 

 in a somewhat triangular form to the lower edge of the cell, its outer 

 edge being almost perpendicular to the dorsum; the dark coloring is 

 also strongly apparent along the fold, arising at the extreme base of 

 the costa, crossing the fold obliquely outward, and reaching nearly 

 to the dorsum at about one-fifth from the base, thence angulated 

 upward to the fold and returning to the dorsum at about its middle; 

 thence again angulated upward and continued, with more or less 

 interruption, parallel with the termen to the costa before the apex; 

 a series of small dark spots along the termen ; cilia whitish ocherous, 

 with a browaiish fuscous shade running through them near their base 

 and spreading over them outwardly at about their middle; between 

 these dark markings the intermediate space is speckled with brown- 

 ish fuscous; underside with a slight cupreous tinge, the ver}' pale 

 margins speckled witli brownish fuscous, a spot of the same showing- 

 through the wing at the end of the cell. 



Alfir expanse. — 25 mm. 



Hindwings very pale whitish ocherous, the rather shining cilia with 

 one or two brownish fuscous spots around the apex. 



Abdomen whitish ocherous, sprinkled with fuscous posteriorly. 



Legs whitish ocherous, the anterior and median banded above with 

 fuscous; the posterior tarsal joints sprinkled with fuscous. 

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