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my communis, because the line is dentate, as in Lederer's figure of rantalis. 

 The clypeus is mucrouate. The inner line is also apparent in communis, 

 wanting in Lederer-s figure of crinitalis, and thus there is a little doubt 

 whether crinitalis and communis are the same; but Lederer's doubt that 

 crinitalis and rantalis were distinct goes to suggest that his crinitalis is 

 an extreme Tariety of the usual ochor form of rantalis, and which I have 

 described as comnnmis. If these suggestions prove correct, the species 

 will have a wide range; from California to Texas, Alabama, and to 

 Buenos Ayres in South America. It is perhaps one of our most un- 

 sightly moths. Although I did not regard them as typical, I described 

 certain yellowish-fuscous specimens, which I would now consider to 

 belong to rantalis, as a variety of communis. 



EPIPASOHI^. 



Ocelli present. Male antennce with a basal scaled tegumentary pro- 

 cess thrown backward over the thorax; female antennae simple ; clypeus 

 llattened ; male maxillary palpi tufted [Cacoselia, Toripalpus, Tetralo^pha) 

 or scaled {EpipascMa, Mochlocera). Tongue scaled at base ; labial palpi 

 as long as or exceeding the front, with small, pointed, scaled, terminal 

 joint. Fore wings with straight or depressed, in the males of Tetraloplia 

 somewhatconvex, costal margin, pronounced apices, widening outwardly, 

 subtriangulate ; 12-veined, or 11- veined {Tetralopha), vein 1 simple 

 {Mochlocera, Toripalpus, Tetralopha), or more or less distinctly furcate at 

 base [EpipascMa, Cacozelia)', vein 5 near 4 at base ; 8 out of 7 to external 

 margin just below apices; 9 out of 8 and both to costa just before 

 apices; cell incompletely closed. Hind wings 8- veined, three internal 

 veins counted as 1 ; 4 and 5 near together at base ; 8 free; cell incom- 

 pletely closed except in Toripalpus. Female frenulum divided ; that of 

 the male simple. 



This group is characterized by the flattened clypeus and the tegu- 

 mentary scaled process attached to the base of the autennse in the male, 

 and thrown backward over the thorax. It presents some features of 

 Heineman's Galerice, but vein 1 is not uniformly furcate at base of pri- 

 maries, and the third joint of the male labial i^alpi 

 is not naked and excavate. The ocelli are also 

 present. It is probable that Beuterollyta conspicualis 

 of Lederer, from Brazil, belongs to this group. 



Epipaschia Clemens. 



jVJale antennae with a basal tegumentary scaled 

 process as long as the thorax; ciliate beneath ; scaled 

 above ; the joints of the antennae are well defined. 

 Male maxillary palpi scaled. Labial palpi as long as 

 the front, curved upward, with moderate, pointed, Tig.i. 



scaled, third article not well defined from second. Fore wings with 

 evin 5 joined to 4 by a very short cross- vein ; 8 out of 7 about a fourth 



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