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Habitat. — Pennsylvania. 



In the form of the body, cut of the abdomen, this species 

 resembles L. scapha, Harris / bnt the corporal parts are much 

 slenderer and the wings proportionally more elongated. In 

 one specimen the wings are ditfusedly shaded with pale cine- 

 reous. There is a slight and variable depression on external 

 margin, below the apex, on the primaries. The general colora- 

 tion resembles that of the secondaries of L. scapha, but of a 

 paler and warmer tint. The utter absence of any markings 

 sufficiently characterizes this species in separating it from its 

 congeners. 



The generic name, Cyrtosia, employed by Dr. Packard for 

 a genus belonging to this sub-family, having been previously 

 used in Diptera, it becomes necessary to propose a new name 

 for the lepidopterous genus. Under the circumstances it seems 

 appropriate to dedicate it to its discoverer, and we accordingly 

 propose for it the name Packardia. The species are as follows : 

 Packardia elegans (Cyrtosia elegans, Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 Phil, p. 342, October, 1864); P. fusca (Cyrtosia fusca, Pack- 

 ard, 1. c.) ; P. geminata (Cyrtosia geminata, Packard,], c.) ; P. 

 albipunctata (Cyrtosia albipunctata, Packard, 1. c.) ; and P. 

 ocellata (Cyrtosia ocellata, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., p. 322, 

 April, 1865, plate 2, fig. 2). 



Sub-Pam. PTILODONTES. 



Lophodonta, Packard. 



On Plate 78 of the work on the Insects of Georgia, Abbot 

 gives two figures as the sexes of a moth which receives (p. 165, 

 1. c.) the name of Phalsena angulosa, Smith. In reality these 

 are distinct species, as our material proves. Under the name 

 of " Notodonta Georgicaf Herrich-Sehaeffer figures the female 

 of Abbot's male, P. angulosa, Smith, and it seems proper to 

 retain this specific name. We have a 2 specimen perfectly 

 corresponding with Herrich-Schaeffer's figure and both sexes of 



