AMERICAN LEPTDOPTERA. • ISO 



Beneath ochreous brown, a little clearer colored along the costac. 

 Head, thorax and appendages ochreous brown ; abdomen a little 

 darker. 



Var. a. — A specimen has the lines of the primaries above obsolete; 

 the white shading is prominently expressed and leaves as usual the apex 

 and a smaller space at the internal angle free. 



Exjjavse, 22 mil. Length nf hody^ 11 mil. 



HahlUit. — South Carolina (Zimmermann), Mus. Berol. 



Larger than L. fasciola, II-S., and at once distinguishable by 

 the paler color and straighter median line of the fore wings above. 

 The palpi are prominent, as in L. fasciola, and the wings similarly 

 shaped. L. rectilinea appears to us intermediate between L. bigutta- 

 tus. Pack., or rather L. y-inversa, Pack., and L. fasciola, and to evi- 

 dence the position of the latter as belonging to this genus. 



ADONETA, Clemens. 

 Adoneta pygmaea, n. s. 



% . — Antennae pale, long and stout, basally shortly and thickly pec- 

 tinate. Front and inside of legs blackish. Thorax above and head 

 behind blackish or dull brownish, mixed with pale scales. Wings 

 rounded. Primaries dull brownish, or wholly suffused with blackish. 

 An. oblique rounded short linear white mark on internal margin at 

 basal third, and one before the apices,' clear of the margins, both pre- 

 ceded by pale scales. The wing is blackish centrally longitudinally 

 along median vein in those specimens in which the ground color re- 

 mains brownish. In the dark specimens the apical edge is brown. A 

 very faint subterminal series of blackish points; no terminal line. 

 Hind wings and abdomen paler, the former without markings. Be- 

 neath, both wings are pale, uniformly colored, immaculate, much as 

 secondaries above. 



Uxjiansc, % 14 — 15 mil. Length of hody, 5 mil. 



Hahitat. — Texas, (Belfrage). 



A very small species with rounded wings, hardly more than half 

 the size of A. spinuloides, from which it differs by the rounded exter- 

 nal margin of primaries, which is not depressed below apices, and by 

 the absence of the dark fringes. The ornamentation is similar, since 

 we have the two curved white abbreviated lines, but the one on inter- 

 nal margin is even, and appears more oblique in A, pygmaea. This 

 species may have the wings and thorax dull bi'own, or entirely suf- 

 fused with blackish, leaving the white marks evident. Three male 

 specimens examined; the fem:de is unknown to us yet. 



TRANS. AMER. ENT. SOC. (25) SEI'TKMBER, 1868. 



