Notes on the Lepidoptera of America. 451 



The abdomen, owing perhaps to the breadth of the wings, 

 hardly extends as far as anal angle of secondaries. 



Drepanodes, Guenee. 

 Drcpanodes piiber, is- s. 



(Plate 15 A, fig. \, $ .) 



$ . Wings, pale fawn color, with an olivaceous shade, which lat- 

 ter obtains principally over the median space of the primaries and 

 along the external margins of both pair. Primaries with the apices 

 bluntly sub-falcate, but slightly produced. Immediately below the 

 apex, the external margin is inwardly sinuate, thence rounded out- 

 wardly to internal angle, the latter improminent. Base of the 

 wing, pale fawn color, limited externally by the first short trans- 

 verse line, which latter is slightly arcuate, pale, indistinct, and 

 margined outwardly by an olivaceous shade, most distinctly marked 

 on costa. The median space is tinged with olivaceous. A black 

 discal dot. Faint traces of a median shade. The costal region is 

 sparsely irrorate with dark scales. The outer, long, oblique, trans- 

 verse line, limiting outwardly the median space, is pale, whitish, 

 more distinct than the first line, outwardly projected immediately 

 below costa, thence running inwardly obliquely to internal margin 

 and bordered inwardly by a faint darker olivaceous shade. Out- 

 side this line, the wing is pale lawn color and the olivaceous termi- 

 nal space is limited inwardly by an arcuate faint pale shade, which 

 runs from apex to internal angle, and, being inwardly arcuate, 

 leaves the terminal space widest at about the middle, at which 

 point are two distinct, superposed, dark clouded spots, situate just 

 without the arcuated sub-terminal pale shade band. External 

 margin lined with dark olivaceous ; the extremities of the short 

 fringes are whitish. Secondaries, resembling primaries in colora- 

 tion. A straight, short, median, whitish line, distinctly margined 

 inwardly by a coincident dark olivaceous shade. This line becomes 

 obsolete at the costal region, which latter, from base to apex, is 

 pale, cliscolorous with the rest of the wing. A minute, black, dis- 

 cal dot, situate on the lower confines of the pale costal space, which 



