130 PAPERS BY DE. B. CLEMENS. 



base of the costa with reddish-violet ; with three patches of 

 raised scales, one in the fold near the base, one behind the 

 middle of the wing, and one near the tip on the inner margin, 

 the latter two are large and extended nearly to the costa. 

 In certain lights these raised patches are golden internally, 

 while the spaces of the wing between them become dark 

 fuscous, and with the light striking the wing from the tip 

 the patches are dark ochreous, and the last is extended ob- 

 liquely into the costa as a streak of the same hue. The tip 

 of the wing is reddish-violet, in certain lights dark fuscous. 

 The cilia are very long and are extended along the hind 

 margin beyond the middle of the wing; fuscous, tinged 

 with reddish. Hind-wings dark fuscous, cilia the same. 



LAVERNA, Curtis. 



Fore-wings pointed, oblique along the hinder margin, with 

 five veins beneath the furcate apical vein. Discoidal cell 

 narrow. Submedian furcate at each end; basal fork long, 

 the apical fork shorter. Hind-wings rather retuse on the 

 costa before the tip ; hind margin rounded or cimetar-shaped 

 from base to apex. The subcostal is obsolete toward the 

 base, simple and runs into the costa before the tip. Dis- 

 coidal cell closed, with a discal vein furcate at the tip. 

 Median three-branched, the last two arising on a common 

 base. 



Head smooth ; backhead or vertex elongated. Forehead 

 obtuse, advanced; face retreating. Eyes oval, visible in 

 front. Labial palpi moderately long, curved, smooth but 

 rather loosely scaled; second joint flattened toward its end, 

 subclavate ; the third short, smooth and pointed. Antennae 

 rather more than one-half as long as the fore-wings, simple, 

 setaceous, basal joint subclavate. Tongue sparingly scaled, 

 extremely short, not one-half as long as the labial palpi. 



L. luciferella. Head and face silvery, tinged with yellowish. 

 Backhead dark fuscous. Labial palpi silvery ; middle joint 



