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outer edge aiul ininuteh' dentate ; a faint crennlate dark turniiual 

 line. Hind wing t'u^eous ^^liglitly irrurated witli Wack scales, the 

 terminal area i-ufous finely pencilled with black ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, black, slightly sinuous, obsolescent on c(jstal area ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish slii^htlv delined on inner side by black, dentate, 



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Fig. bl.-Zale Jiorriihi, J. y- 



arising at vein G ; the miderside grey suffused with red-brown and 

 irrorated with dark brown, a slight blackish discoidal lunule, traces 

 of an antemedial and two medial lines, a slight Avaved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. CxsADA (Xor)n(/ii),l 2; U.S.A., Eastern States to Texas 

 and west to the Eockv Mts^ 1 d , 3 $ , New York {FucJts), 1 d . 

 Fxj}. 42-46 millim. 



Genus SYPNOIDES, nov. 



Type, S. pannoscr. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, tlie 2iicl joint, veacliinj; to about 

 vertex of bead and broadly scaled, the iJrd long and thickly scaled ; frons 

 Binooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennie of male iyi)ically 

 vitii fasciculate cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scalis, the pro- 

 and nietathorax with large sjjriading crests; tibiie tlightly fringed «iih haii'. 

 the fore tibiic not spined, tlie hind tibia; spined ; abdomen with dorsal 

 eeries of crests. Fore wing with the ajiex rounded, the termen evenly curved 

 and crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 

 t) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with the cell about lialf the lengl h of wing; Acins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully 

 develojjcd from jnsi above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Anteniue of male bipectinate, with long branches, the nycx ciliated. 



A. Fore wing witli white suffusion on medial area, the basal 



and terminal areas without blackish patches cquatorialis. 



B. Fore wing without white sufl'usion on medial area, the 



baeal and terminal areas with blackish patches viandarina. 



