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(33.) Melaporphyria immortua; n. g. et sp. 



Closely allied to Melicleptria. All the tibiae armed ; tlie short fore tibiae with 

 siibequal terminal longer spines. Eyes small ; front bulging without protub- 

 erance. The head is closely applied to the thorax, giving a different appear- 

 ance to the insect from the species of Melicleptria. In size, the shape of the 

 primaries and the length of the spurs, the species seems related to Heliaca. 

 The ornamentation is not unlike the species referred by M. Guenee to An- 

 thoecia, but yet differs sensibly. The $ abdomen does not show the oviduct 

 extruded. The legs and face are more lengthily haired ; the abdomen is 

 smooth, without tufts and the wings have a velvety appearance. The colors 

 are very dark, so that we are reminded of Melicleptria arcifera. The fore 

 wings have the median lines fine, pale and even. The t. a. line forms an arc, 

 much outwardly produced at the center. The t. p. line is oblique, nearly 

 straight, a little sinuate, and is brought very nearly to the t. a. line medially. 

 The median field is narrowed by the inwardly oblique course of the t. p. line, 

 which thus differs here from its appearance in M. arcifera, Spraguei, etc., 

 with which the species is similarly sized. The basal field is deep purple 

 brown, becoming olivaceous before the t. a. line and there concolorous with 

 the olivaceous brown or blackish subterminal field. Median space dusky 

 brownish ; all the veins marked by pale scales, and this latter character is espe 

 cially noticeable on the subterminal space. The terminal space is lighter 

 purply brown with a deeper shaded terminal line. There is merely a diffuse 

 darker shade in the place of the reniform. Hind wings blackish at base, gol- 

 den brown along terminal margin ; the wing shows the brighter tint also as a 

 faint median band. Fringes of the same golden brown at base, dusky tipped, 

 as they are on primaries. Body parts olivaceous blackish. Beneath the wings 

 are blackish at base, golden brown externally, the primaries the paler, and 

 they show a common diffuse median blackish band, separated but slightly 

 from the dark color of the base ; fore wings with a golden brown discal spot. 



Habitat, Albany (Mr. Lintner); Cambridge (Mr. Morrison). 



Tricopis,^^ n. g. 



In form allied to Tarache and with a similar clothing of flattened scales on 

 the thorax. All the tibiae are armed and in addition the short fore tibiae have 

 three unequal terminal claws, the longer on the inside. The eyes are naked. 

 The bulging clypeus is thickly and mossily scaled, .and the inferior clypeal 

 plate is prominent. The outer margin of the fore wings is more oblique and 

 the apices produced than in Tarache and Schinia. The abdomen is plump 

 and untufted and the ovii)ositor is slightly extruded in the female. The orna- 

 mentation is not unlike that of the silver-flecked species of Cucullia. 



■■' * Gr. : Tpelq et lioTrig. 



