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Pleonectopoda Lewisij Orote, Plate 4, fig. 10, 3 . 



5 . — Reddish purple brown, not unlike Agrotis plecta or leucostigma in gen- 

 eral color, but more robust and without the pale longitudinal shades on prima- 

 ries. Transverse lines obliterate. Median lines dark, narrow, faint ; t. p. line 

 sublunulate, projected opposite the cell, running evenly to internal margin. 

 Ordinary spots large, concolorous, with a narrow pale powdery edging, sepa- 

 rated by a black well-defined shade which fills up the cell and is slightly ap- 

 parent before the orbicular. Median shade apparent below the orbicular and 

 approximate to the t. p. line. Subterminal line pale. Terminal space duller, 

 paler, less red than the rest of the wing ; no terminal line, fringes concolorous. 

 Hind wings pale testaceous fuscous, silky, without marks above or below. 

 Head and thorax reddish ; feet pale dotted ; abdomen a little darker than sec- 

 ondaries. Costal edge of primaries with anteapical pale dots, visible on the 

 red-stained costal edge beneath. The fore wings beneath are like secondaries, 

 without marks. 



Expanse, 34 m. m. Hahitat, Colorado Territory (No. 31, coll. 

 Theo. L. Mead). 



Named in memory of Josepli S. Lewis, late of this Society, a 

 student of Entomology, who perished untimely by the railroad 

 accident at Angola on the 18th day of December, 1867, at the age 

 of 24 years. 



Enpsephopaectes, n. g. 



Eyes hairy, without lashes ; antennae ( 2 ) of the usual length, scaled above, 

 pilose beneath, with two short stout bristles to each joint; front closely scaled, 

 without prominence, rather narrow ; tongue long and corneous ; legs unarmed ; 

 thorax subquadrate with a slight anterior and more prominent posterior crest ; 

 abdomen with a dorsal ridge but ( 2 ) untufted. Head prominent ; the caputal 

 squamation is massed between the antennae, front untufted. Palpi prominent, 

 exceeding the front, directed obliquely forwards, closely scaled. Wings elon- 

 gate and rather narrow ; primaries widening outwardly, with straight costal 

 edge ; apices very slightly blunted ; external margin short, evenly rounded ; 

 internal margin subsinuate. Hind wings moderate, exceeded by the abdomen. 

 The fringes and the external margins of both wings lightly scalloped. Orna- 

 mentation Hadena-like ; mimicking the Sphingid genus Dupo. 



The genus differs at once from all the genera allied to Hadena 

 (with which I would associate it), such as Prodenia, Brotolomia, 

 Phlogophora, Euplexia, Jaspidea, by its distinctly hairy eyes. From 



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