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barely indicated. The terminal line is very fniut, and appears very 

 slightly uneven. Fringes on both wings of a uniform shade of brown, a 

 very little lighter than the wings. Hind wings brown, without marks. 

 Beneath brown, almost concolorous. JExpansion, 23 millimetres. Georgia 

 {Mr. Ridings). 



I took this specimen with me to the British Museum, but could not 

 identify it there. In the collection before me, 1 have deleta, erasa, sylva- 

 rum, and herbicola of the species described by Guenee in this genus. 



POAPHILA IRROEATA, n. SJp. 



2. — Gray, irrorate with brown. T. a. line whitish, narrow, a little 

 bent, even, followed by a very narrow, brown shade. Reniform indi- 

 cated by two superposed brown spots. T. p. line like the first line, even, 

 nearly straight, slightly angulated at costa. Subterminal line a series 

 of brown spots. Very minute terminal dark dots, also faintly to be de- 

 tected on hind wings. Fringes gray. Beneath fuscous-gray, with indi- 

 cations of discal marks on both wings. Palpi prominent. J^Jx^pmision, 

 30 millimetres. No. 3137, Florida {Mr. Thaxter). 



Antiblemma canalis, Grote. 



Two additional specimens (Nos. 401, 402) were taken by me to the 

 British Museum for comparison, and differ from my type by the concol- 

 orous reniform, and, in one specimen, by the diffuse brown exterior line. 

 In the type, the reniform is black and the exterior line geminate. 



Pheocyma, Subner. 



I think this generic name will have to be used instead of Homoptera 

 Bd. (preoc.?). Hiibner's lunifera and Jluctuar is must, however, be pos- 

 itively identified. To the former I provisionally refer a species from 

 Illinois and Texas, which has the basal field darker than the rest of the 

 wing. It does not seem to me to differ generically from Homoptera. 

 Prof. Lintner's suggestion that lunata and edusa are sexes of one species 

 leads me to believe that the white edging in other forms is not specific. 

 What I take to be the ^ of penna shows a white subterminal shade. I 

 observe the same thing in the case of lunifera In the present stage of 

 knowledge with regard to this genus, it would be unwise to increase the 

 species without giving figures and certainty as to the sexual characters 

 of ornamentation. In my Check List, I have drawn attention to the 

 seeming want of characters to distinguish Ypsia and Pseudanthracia from 

 Pheocyma. I have elsewhere proposed to distinguish the genus Zale of 

 Hiibner by the exaggerated discolorous thoracic tuftings. Finally, my 

 material does not contradict the suggestion that Homopteya atritincta, 

 may be the female ofedusina of Harvey. 



Ypsia, Guenee. 



In this genus I have both sexes of Y. aeruginosa, which do not differ in 

 ornamentation j there is a variation in the amount of green scales in one 



