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venation would indicate, but the wing form and maxillary palpi are not OEcopliorid. 



1. E. bassettella Clemens. Bronze -black; palpi yellow. Base of fore wing orange- 

 red, bounded by a raised bar on inner half and a dot on costa, and marked with 

 a black bar from base of costa, and streak on inner margin. Outer two-thirds 

 nearly black with an orange-red band running through the middle of the wing to 

 the costa before the apex, leaving only a slender black streak. 15 mm. 



July and August. 



New Hampshire, and Ontario to Texas. New York: Ithaca (Howard, W. T. 

 M. F. ) , Nyack ( Zabriskie ) ; Flatbush, Long Island. 



2. HELIODINES Stainton 



(yEtole Chambers) 



Palpi smooth, third joint pointed (fig. 222), antennae about as long as body: 

 hind tibiae smooth-scaled; fore wing lanceolate (fig. 21S); our species with 10 

 veins, the two apical forking over the apex, Cu 2 apparently lost. Hind wing nar- 

 rower, lanceolate, with R and M^ long-stalked, forking over apex; M, free, con- 

 nected by a short cross vein to R-steni; cell open below it; our species with Cu-stem 

 simple. Ocelli present. Larva of European species in a slight web, on 

 Chenopodiacese. 



1. H. bella Chambers. Eore wing deep orange; base marked with mouse-gray; 

 also, with two gray spots on costa and two on dorsal margin; costa, outwardly, 

 and inner margin, from beyond middle, edged with mouse-gray; fringes, body, 

 and hind wings mouse-gray. The fore wing with the small gray spots raised, and 

 with similar raised tufts in the gray border. 7 mm. 



The moth has been taken on Chinquapin bloom. 

 Kansas and Kentucky to California and Texas. 



2. H. nyctaginella Gibson. Similar, larger; costa with gray edge at base only, 

 followed by four raised spots; inner margin with no separate spots; the ante- 

 medial tuft connected to the base, and the postmedial tuft to the apex by gray 

 stripes. 10 mm. 



August. Larva on Oooybaphus nyctagineus. 

 Madison, Wisconsin; Manitoba; Ames, Iowa. 



3. E BINE DA Bnsck 



(Stathmopoda, in part) 



Antennae two-thirds as long as fore wing, without pecten, but with whoids of 

 long hair in male. Palpi upturned, slightly thickened, third segment rather 

 shorter than second. Scales small, slender, and smooth. Tongue small; maxillary 

 palpi apparently absent; hind tibiae with tufts of spines above the spurs, the outer 

 end-spur as long as the inner, and both long. Tarsi also with whorls of spinules. 

 Fore wing slender, but wider than in the European genus Stathmopoda; lanceolate; 

 with 11 veins; Rj and R 2 approximate; R 3 short-stalked with R 4+5 all running 

 to costa; M 1 absent, Cu 2 arising well back on the cell; M 2 . M 3 , and Cu\ equidistant. 

 Hind wing half as wide, lanceolate; veins all free but crowded; cell open above 

 M 2 . R x apparently free from the short Sc in the hind wing, as in Stathmopoda. 



This genus is most probably Heliodinid, but will ordinarily be sought in the 

 Lavernidffi. The moth of Stathmopoda rests with the middle legs extended later- 

 ally and the tufted hind legs raised. 



1. E. elyella Busck. Brilliant golden bronze; the costa and inner margin con- 

 trastingly pale golden in most lights. 9 mm. 



East Eiver, Connecticut. 



