GROTE ON NORTH AMERICAN PYRALID^. 6S5 



black dots ou cell ; outer line whitisb, finely dentate, with a little 

 deeper submedian notch, margined on both sides by a blackish shade. 

 A row of terminal black dots; fringes gray. Hind wings testaceous- 

 fuscous, rather iDale, with pale fringes. Beneath, the hind wings are 

 yellowish ; fore wings fuscous, with the exterior line marked. Abdomen 

 testaceous-fuscous ; thorax and head dark grayish. Legs gray, marked 

 outwardly with black. Expanse, 19 to 20 mil. Eighteen specimens ex- 

 amined, taken by Mr. Charles Fish, of Oldtown, Me.; also by Professor 

 Fernald at Orono. 



This species so nearly resembles riibrifasciella at first glance that it 

 might be considered an extreme variety, although strongly generically 

 distinct. It is not so smoothly scaled, and the tone is grayish, not 

 brownish-fuscous. 



Salebria Zeller. 



Fore wings 11- veined, with veins 4 and 5 separate. Hind wings with 

 8 veins, 2 near the lower angle of the cell. Male antennsB bent at base, 

 with a scale-ridge. Maxillary palpi in the male ending in a pencil of 

 discolorous hair hid behind the labial palpi. 



The distinction from Pempelia proper consists in the 8- veined second- 

 aries. In the North American specimens here de- 

 scribed, vein 5 runs alongside and touching 4 at base; '^ 

 4 leaving 5 at a point about midway between the cell 

 and external margin. 



SaJebria fusca, Haw., fig. 7 (ueuration). 



i 9. Fore wings blackish-gray, with black discal 

 mark formed of the usual dots united. Inner line 

 white, black- margined on either side, upright, once 

 dentate on vein 1, absorbed superiorly by the black 

 shade-lines. Outer line white, distinct, continuous, 

 black-margined on either side, indented subcostally and again before' 

 internal margin, slightly uneven. Head and thorax blackish. Fringes 

 very narrowly interlined on both wings. Hind wings as usual, smoky 

 translucent, with narrow terminal line. Beneath without markings, 

 except ou costa of primaries. I have examined 15 females and 4 males 

 from Oldtown, Me., sent me by Mr. Charles Fish, and Orono, by Professor 

 Fernald. Identified by Professor Zeller as the same as the European 

 species. 



Nephopteryx Zeller. 



The male antennge are bent at base, where they are provided with a 

 scale-ridge. The male maxillary palpi are small, concealed, not provided 

 with a pencil of hair, as in Pempelia and Salehria. The fore wings are 

 11- veined; the hind wings 8-veiued. In ovalis, as herewith figured, 

 and fenestrella, veins 4 and 5 have a separate origin on primaries; 



