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lines pale, irregular ; the terminal narrow field and the sub-basal field of 
a deep rich brown. Hind wings white at base, with a black subterminal 
shade band followed by a terminal rich brown edge. The margin is angu- 
lated on both wings. The other genus Marasmalus is narrower bodied, and 
has the remarkable faculty of holding the wings when at rest like a fan, 
The two species occur from Maine to Texas; the larger and handsomer 
M. Ventilator is colored like Ripogenus ; the other is darker and more 
obscurely tinted, and apparently not uncommon. I took the generic 
name ot Pulcherrimus from the Indian, as its colors and ornamentation 
lent themselves to my fancy as being like the work made by our North 
American Indians; I did not know then, twenty years ago, that it had a 
near ally in southern Europe. The names in the other genus are sugges- 
tive of the fan-folded wings, which my friend Sanborn likened to those of 
Tettiv, and the way in which the moths seem suddenly to disappear. 2. 
Pulcherrimus is one of our handsomest Noctuids of this division of the 
family. I do not think the European fauna has anything prettier than 
our Agrotis Hilliana, A. Oireumdata, Oncocnemis Atriafasciata, Homo- 
glea Carnosa, Nyctophuta Magdalena, Ripogenus Pulcherrimus, Rhodosea 
Julia, Rhodophora Florida, Huleucyptera Oumatilis, Adonisea Pulchripen- 
nis, Dasypoudea Lucens and Meadii, while in the Plusias, those brilliant 
gems of color, our Plusia Mappa is hard to beat. 
15. Ingurine m. The genus Ingura is characterized by the antenne of 
the male being pectinated at base, the pectinations decreasing suddenly at 
tip. This form gives the genus a notodentiform look, which Mr. Walker 
has availed himself of to classify some of our species among the Bombyces. 
The abdomen is cylindrical, the wings rather narrow and the rounded 
secondaries are rather small. There is thus a certain resemblance to the 
preceding groups. Hubner figures a species, which I have not made out, 
in the ‘Zutraege,”’ and this seems the earliest notice of any species. The 
colors are black and dingy, and the ornamentation offers a certain resem- 
blance to Abrostola. But Oculatrix is an exception, the species having 
pinkish eye-like markings on the fore wings, and being a showy little in- 
sect. In structure it cannot be doubted the genus stands next to Maras- 
malus. 
16. Anomtine m. This subfamily is characterized by the large naked 
eyes, the smoothly scaled body, tapering abdomen and close silky vesti- 
ture. The wings tend to be wide and perhaps Hulepidotis belongs here, 
The larva are half-loopers and approach the Plusia type. Anomis has the 
wings angulated, and the type rosa is colored not unlike Xanthia ; the 
larva has an additional pair of feet developed as compared with Aletia, In 
a study of the false or abdominal feet of caterpillars, I find that there is 
always some indication in the Noctuid genera which have the superior 
pair aborted, of the position of these feet, and that the discontinuance of 
use and the consequent arching of the body at this point is very gradual, 
Aletia Argillacea, the cotton worm moth, has been studied by me in the 
South. It has undoubtedly effected a lodging with us during the latter 
