HEIL Ds THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
thorax grayish fuscous ; primaries whitish, sparsely dusted with golden 
brown scales and with three or four transverse patches of golden brown ; 
about the basal fourth, in one of the golden brown patches, are two small 
spots of yellow scarcely raised scales opposite to each other and just 
within the margins, the dorsal one being the smallest. (In one specimen 
in place of the dorsal yellow spot is a distinct patch of brown raised 
scales.) In another of the transverse patches, about the middle, is. 
another larger spot of yellow scarcely raised scales, with a small opposite 
dorsal patch of raised scales, and in another transverse fuscous patch, 
about the beginning of the ciliae, 1s another transverse patch or streak of 
whitish and brown scales with a few yellow ones intermixed.  Costal 
margin brownish, with seven white streaks, the first three pointing a little 
obliquely backwards, and the last four, which are in the apical part of the 
wing, nearly straight ora little oblique forwards; the last two cross the 
wing and are concave—especially the last one—towards the apex. The 
brownish portions of the wing with golden reflections in some lights. 47 
ex. 38 inch. Kentucky. 
The specimen above mentioned in parenthesis has the apex of the 
wings a little worn and I cannot distinguish the costal streaks in that part 
of the wing. Possibly it may be a distinct species, but I think not. 
The foregoing sub-genus is allied to 7?ea both in the trophi and the 
neuration of the wings. Nevertheless, it differs decidedly from that genus. 
in the neuration. In the neuration of the wings and their tufts of raised. 
scales it is allied to Xy/esthia, but differs decidedly from it in the trophi ; 
and the antennae differ decidedly by their increased length. In this 
respect and in the neuration and palpi it approaches nearer to Clemens” 
sub-genus (of Zizea) Homosetia, but that sub-genus has no raised tufts. 
upon the wings, and the neuration is not exactly the same. 
CYANE, Sel. 10U. 
This genus is very near to Zizea, the principal differences being in the 
form and neuration of the hind wings (in which respects different species 
of Zinea by no means agree with each other), in the absence of bristles 
on the palpi, and the ciliated antennae. The general appearance of the 
insect in repose is that of a Gelechia, and such I supposed it to be when 
it was captured. It also approaches that group in the form and neuration 
of the hind wings. 
