Notes on the Lepidoptera of America. 455 



Ellopia, Treitschke. 

 Ellopia bibularia, n. s. 



(Plate 15 A, fig. 8, 3 .) 



(5 . Wings, delicate, thinly scaled, pale testaceous grey, much 

 clouded by darker irrorations which are composed of pale brown- 

 ish or blackish scales gathered into short transverse streaks, in- 

 terior wings with the external margin rounded, improminently 

 exserted at the extremity of the second median nervule. A trans- 

 verse anterior line, outwardly arcuate and slightly projected supe- 

 riorly, preceded by an obsolete pale shade which is nothing but 

 the ground color of the wing partially free from irrorations. A 

 linear transverse discal mark. A transverse posterior line, round- 

 edly and slightly outwardly projected at about first median nervule, 

 and succeeded by a narrow pale coincident shade, analogous to that 

 preceding the transverse anterior line. Sub -terminally, the wing 

 is irregularly and partially free from irrorations ; thus a pale trans- 

 verse shade is formed, most prominent over second and third m. ner- 

 vules. The transverse lines are pale blackish or brownish, and but 

 little darker than the irrorations. Where the lines cross the 

 "veins," these are longitudinally marked with darker scales. 

 Secondaries, resembling primaries; a median dark line, corre- 

 sponding to the transverse posterior line of the primaries and fol- 

 lowed by a similar narrow pale coincident shade. Sub-terminally, 

 as on the primaries, the wing is very partially and irregularly 

 deprived of irrorations. External margin, rounded, with no per- 

 ceptible angulation. Faint traces of a discal mark ; this, like that 

 on the primaries, is merely composed of an aggregation of the 

 irrorations with which the wings are clouded. The short fringes 

 are silky and concolorous with the wings. Under surface, clear 

 greyish testaceous, without irrorations except obsoletely on costa 

 and diffusely along external margins. There are no markings, the 

 delicacy of the wings causing the marblings and lines of the upper 

 surface to be faintly reflected. 



Head, ochreous ; antennae, finely plumose, antennal stalk, above, 

 clothed partly with ochreous scales. Prothorax, ochreous ; thorax, 



