484 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.xxii. 



line, forming the most promiueut feature. Basal line forming trian- 

 gular blackish brown costal spot. Transverse anterior line uprigbt 

 or nearly so, blackish, broken, diffuse. Transverse posterior line black- 

 ish, broken, single, abruptly and somewhat squarely exserted over the 

 cell, followed by a slightly paler shade. Subterminal space darkening 

 to a blackish shade, which marks the subterminal line by the contrast 

 with the paler terminal space; this line only a little irregular. The 

 terminal space itself becomes somewhat darker to the margin, on which 

 is a series of black, interspaceal dots, the fringes marked by dusky 

 cloudings opposite the veins. Orbicular a distinct, round, black dot. 

 Eeniform very obscure, and indicated only by a variable number of 

 black scales. Secondaries smoky, immaculate. Beneath variable; pri- 

 maries blackish, with a pale subterminal shading, and this varies to an 

 almost even, smoky gray; secondaries whitish, with a discal spot, a 

 median, an extra-median, and a terminal band smoky brown or blackish, 

 the fringes cut with dirty white and smoky. 



Expanse, 19 to 21 mm. = 0.76 to 0.81 inch. 



Habitat. — Charlotte Harbor (Mrs. Slosson); Archer, Florida, July 3 

 (Koebele); September (U.S.N.M.). 



Several specimens, representing both sexes, are before me, and I have 

 seen others. The species seems to be rather common in some portions 

 of Florida, and is not subject to variation except in the relative distinct- 

 ness of the black markings. The quadrate dusky patch in the middle 

 of the basal third of the primary is characteristic. 



Type.—G2it, No. 4831, U.S.K.M. 



HELIODES Guenee. 



Thus far no representatives of this genus have been described from 

 our fauna; but I have now before me two species that seem to lit per- 

 fectly to Lederer's characterization. The moths are small, plump, with 

 fine, loose vestiture, and short, trigonate primaries. Head with a pro- 

 tuberant, bulging front, with a naval-sh.aped depression in which is a 

 short pointed process. Palpi reaching this process, the terminal joint 

 a little oblique, with rough, hairy vestiture. Eyes narrow, small, naked. 

 Tongue normal. Antenui^e in both sexes simple. Tibi;© without spinu- 

 lation or other armature, save the usual spurs ; legs short, stout, with 

 heavy clothing of scales and hair, not tufted. In habitus the species 

 resemble Melicleptria. 



87. HELIODES ANGELICA, new species. 



Ground color of head and thorax black, the fluffy vestiture yellowish 

 and sometimes with a carmine shading. Abdomen black, terminal seg- 

 ment yellow. Primaries with a blackish ground, over which there is a 

 more or less obvious carmine shading, sometimes making the wing abso- 

 lutely carmine and sometimes leaving it almost black. An oblique 

 yellow band, made up of two contiguous spots, crosses the primaries 



