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Genus Semyra ll'ii/krr. 



1%'i^^-Seiiiyra Walkkk, Cat. Hiil. Miis., pt. \', p. 1130. 



S. beutenmuelleri Hy. Edioards. 



i?)%-] —LuJiiuo,/t-s lu-uteiiiiiuelleri IIv. Eiiwakds, Can. Kiit., \'ol. XIX. p. 145. 

 Squammation and aspect of C Phobetron pithcciunt. Primaries 

 deep-brown, irrorate with bluish scales, with irrej^ular patclies of 

 pale ocherous at middle of costa, beyontl cell and along internal 

 margin, these spots scarcely confluent. 'I'he ape.x, to middle of 

 outer margin, pale ocherous. Secondaries blackish. Thora.x with 

 the colors of primaries intermixed ; abdomen brown. Expanse, 

 22 mm. cJ* unknown. 

 Habitat, Florida. 



Genus Adoneta Clemens. 



i?,bo—. 4 doiteta Clf.mrns, Pioc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Thil., Vol. XII, p. 15S. 



Synopsis of species. 



Fore wings brown, shaded with blackish and gray. 



Moderate in size, 18— 20 mm., slightly shaded . . spinuloides. 



Very small, 14 — 15 mm., darkly shaded pyRma^a. 



Fore wings quite nniform, not shaded ...... leucosigiTia. 



A. spinuloides Hcnich-Sih'affer. 



iSs4—Limiiio</es sphiu/oi\/es llERRicH-'^cn.'EFFER, Saml. Ausser. Schmett., 



Vol. I, ff. 187—8. 

 1S60— .4 i/oiieta vohita Ci.EMENS. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., Vol. XII, p. 158. 

 \%b^—Liinacin{es feirigera Walker, Cat. Brit. Mui., pt. XXXII, p. 486. 

 Primaries chocolate brown with oval black discal spot and 

 large terminal spots; a sub-basal and sub-apical narrow transverse 

 w^hite streak, on internal margin and costa respectively, the sub- 

 apical one curved and the two connected by an arcuate row of black 

 dots. Within these lines, the wing is shaded with whitish and 

 black, and in some specimens, these shades prevail sub-terminally 

 also. Secondaries pale brown. Expanse, i8 — 20 mm. 

 Habitat, Atlantic States. 



A. pygmaea dote 6-' Robinson. 



i%t%— Adoneta pyj^iiura Gkoie^ Korinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. IT, 

 p. 189. 



Primaries brownish or wholly suffused with blackish with 

 white linear marks as in spinn/oiJes. No terminal line. Expanse, 

 14 — 15 mm. 



Habitat, Texas. 



