PSECTEAGL^A.. 



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Genus PSECTRAGL^A, nov. 



Type, P. carnosa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons and fringed 

 with long hair below; frons smooth, rounded ; eyes large; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair only and without crests; fore tarsi with curved claw-like 

 spines on outer side of 1st joint ; abdomen rather flattened, smoothly scaled 

 and without crests. Fore wing rather broad, the termen obliquely curved ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male pectinated. 



A. Head and thorax carmine, wings tinged with carmine carnosa. 



B, Head, thorax, and fore wing red-brown olivata. 



2645. Psectraglaea carnosa. 



Gla>a carnosa, GrYQie, Can. Ent. ix. pp. 21, 70 riSTT) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 220. 



5 . Head fulvous tinged with carmine : antennae white ; thorax 

 bright carmine ; abdomen yellow slightly tinged with carmine. 

 Pore wing olive-brown almost entirely suffused with bright carmine ; 

 the costal edge white towards base; faint traces of a waved antemedial 

 line ; orbicular and reniform faintly defined by yellow, the former 

 rather oblique elliptical, the latter rather narrow ; traces of an oblique 







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Fig. 154. — PsectraglcBa carnosa, 5 • r- 



line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; very faint traces of 

 a postmedial line excurved beyond cell ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 yellowish, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle. Hind wing pale ochreous suffused with carmine except at 

 base ; the underside Avith slight discoidal spot. 



Hah. U.S.A., Maine, Oldtown (Fish), 1 5 type, Massachusetts, 

 New York. Ea^). 50 millim. 



2646. Psectraglasa olivata. 



(Plate CVI. fig. 14.) 



p. 120 (1874) ; Smitl), 



Glesa olivata, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sei. ii. 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 221. 



$ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; sides of palpi 

 and frons blackish ; antennse whitish at base ; tegul* with slight 



