456 Notes on the Lepidoptera of America. 



patagia, and abdomen, concolorous with the wings, but the latter 

 is stained with ochreous laterally and beneath. Legs, testaceous ; 

 middle and fore tibiae and tarsi, brow T nish ; hind tibiae with two 

 pairs of rather short sub-equal spurs. 



Expanse, $ , 1.60 inch. Length of body, 0.60 inch. 



£ . Resembles the male, but the ochreous caputal tinges are 

 wanting. The color of the wings is more jmrely grey, wanting all 

 testaceous tinges ; the irrorations are less aggregated along the 

 borders of the wings than in the opposite sex. The external mar- 

 gin of the anterior wings is less rounded and the angulation is more 

 prominent than in the male. The external margins of the seconda- 

 ries are slightly produced at the extremity of the second median 

 nervule. Antennae, simple. 



Expanse, £ , 1.50 inch. Length of body, 0.60 inch. 



Habitat. — Atlantic District. (Penna. !) 



Larger than E. flegitiaria, Guenee, which it resembles rather 

 than the common E. fiscellaria, Guenee, though of the size of 

 this latter, from which it differs by its different color and less 

 prominently angulated external margins of the wings. 



Ellopia pellucidaria, n. s. 



(Plate 15 A, fig. 9, £ .) 



$ . Head, obscure ochreous, more brightly colored behind ; 

 antennae, plumose. Thorax and abdomen, obscure greyish, with 

 an ochreous tinge. Anterior and middle legs, darker colored than 

 hind pair, which latter have the tibiae armed with two pairs of 

 rather short sub-equal spurs. Under surface of body, greyish 

 testaceous. 



Wings, rather silky, sub-diaphanous, pale brownish grey, with 

 obsolete irrorations which hardly disturb the uniformity of the 

 general color. Anterior wings with the external margin rounded, 

 very slightly produced at the extremity of the 2d m. nervule, and 

 crossed by two transverse ordinary lines which are of a darker 



