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reeled horizontally, short and very hairy, projecting a little 

 beyond the head ; head and eyes rather small ; thorax subglo- 

 bose and hairy ; abdomen short, subcylindrical. tufted at the 

 apex in the male with a pair of horny incurved spoon-shaped 

 forceps ; wings, superior subtrigonate, the apex a little angu- 

 lated in the female ; legs, posterior a little the longest ; tibiae, 

 anterior short with an internal spine, the others longer, with a 

 pair of spines at the apex, the posterior also with a pair below 

 the middle ; claws simple and distinct ' ' 



Unfortunately, the best distinguishing characters are not 

 mentioned by Kirby or Curtis, and Curtis' figure might be 

 interpreted either way. The very hair}^ palpi, however, seem 

 characteristic oifasciata. ^h\\Q frigidaria has hairy palpi they 

 are not of the peculiar long bristly appearance of fasciata. 

 Moreover, both authors mention prominently the male geni- 

 talia, which are extraordinarily conspicuous in fasciata but 

 obscured, as in most Geometers, \w frigidaria . Therefore what 

 evidence can be secured from the devScriptions indicates that 

 Psychophora applies rather \.o fasciata than lo frigidaria. It is 

 true \^\2X fasciata does not seem to be the same species as sabinii, 

 but there is quite a difference in the localities from which these 

 two forms come, sabinii being from Melville Island and Boothia 

 Felix, 1400 miles east of Point Barrow, Alaska, ^her^ fasciata 

 was taken. Perhaps the matter cannot be settled finally until 

 true sabinii is again at hand. But in the meantime the follow- 

 ing seems most probably correct. A new generic name being 

 required for frigidaria, I suggest Scinneria in honor of Dr. 

 Henry Skinner. The genus will have the characters of Hulst's 

 definition of Psychophora, quoted above. 



Genus PSYCHOPHORA Kirby. 

 Synopsis of Species. 



Fore wings with a basal dark patch and rather narrow median band ; hind 

 wings light on the outer fourth with two dark bands on the 

 darker basal part of wing sabinii Kirby. 



Fore wing with no basal patch, the median band broad, nearly reaching 

 anal angle on inner margin ; hind wing uniformly whitish. 



fasciata Skinner. 

 Genus SCINNERIA Dyar. 



^y^^^ frigidaria Guen., with forms and synonyms as given by Hulst in 

 Bulletin 52, U. S. National Museum. 



