280 COLEMAN T. ROBINSON. 



species, and some may prove not to be indigenous to this country. In 

 all cases where I have not found them absolutely indentical with Euro- 

 pean specimens or figures new names are given, as I consider it prefera- 

 ble to increase the synonomy rather than leave the varieties undescri- 

 bed or wrongly referred. 



Teras flavivittana. (Plate vii, figs. 60—61.) 



Peronea flavivittana Clemens, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil.. Ill, p. 516, 1864. 



Head, thorax and palpi testaceous or pale ochreous, the latter fuscous 

 externally. 



Anterior wings dark brown with pale markings, with two tufts of ele- 

 vated scales, the first, black or blackish-brown, just below the middle 

 of the wing at basal third, the second, on the disc, pale brown or brown- 

 ish-ochreous. Fig. 60 is broadly streaked along the internal margin 

 with pale ochreous and apical ly there are some slight streaks of the 

 same hue. Fig. (51 is of a uniform darker brown broadly marked with 

 pale brown below the discal tuft to external margin. 



Posterior wings above and under surface of both pairs pale shining 

 fuscous. 



Expanse, 18 — 19 mil. 



Habitat. — N. Y., Mass. (Jas. Ridings). 



Teras perspicuana, n. s. (Plate vii, fig. 62.) 



Palpi and head pale gray, thorax white. 



Anterior wings gray with a large black basal patch extending from 

 costa to the middle of the wing, and a broad pale yellow stripe along in- 

 ternal margin from base to internal angle. 



Posterior wings above, and undersurtace of both pairs shining pale 

 fuscous. 



Expanse, 17 mil. 



Habitat. — Pennsylvania. 



This species has a superficial resemblance to the var. scahrana Hb. 

 of T. hastiana Linn., but is a smaller species and the attenuate third 

 joint of the palpi is not enclosed by the long scales of the second as in 

 the European species. 



Tears hastiana, Linn. (Plate vii, fig. 63.) 



Var. divisana Hiibner. 



Palpi, head and thorax dark brown. Anterior wings chocolate brown, 

 with a broad white stripe running from the base just below and parallel 

 to the costa and ending attenuately at the apex. The general hue is 

 darkest just beneath the stripe. Hind wings above and beneath pale 

 fuscous, the fore wings dark fuscous beneath. 



