304 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



hind legs testaceous. Fore wings with testaceous fore borders. 



Hind wings limpid, with hoary fore borders and tips. 



Jamaica. . 



Walker. 



PERCOTE Walker. 



Male. Body rather thick and long. Palpi curved, ascending, 

 as long as the head ; third joint slender, linear, not more than 

 one-fourth of the length of the second. Tongue short. Antennas 

 minutely pectinated. Abdomen extending for nearly half its 

 length beyond the hind wings. Legs rather stout (mutilated in 

 the specimens described), with four? spurs of moderate length. 

 Wings narrow, not long. Fore wings straight in front, conical 

 towards the tips, rounded and not angular behind ; first and 

 second inferior veins contiguous at the base, third about thrice 

 further from the fourth than from the second. 



1. P. signatura Walker, 493. 



.Brown. Head with a luteous spot on each side behind the 

 vertex. Palpi luteous beneath towards the base. Thorax with a 

 luteous spot on each side. Abdomen luteous above, pale testa- 

 ceous beneath. Coxae luteous. Fore wings with a short oblique 

 limpid streak near the fore border and before the middle of the 

 length. Hind wings grayish hyaline with broad brown borders. 



West Indies. 



Walker. 



LITHOSIA Fabr. 



Fore wings rather elongated, subelliptico-truncate. Disk rather 

 narrow, closed by a very faint vein.' Subcostal vein remote from 

 the costa, with two marginal nervules from near the middle of the 

 disk rather erected, and another exterior to the disk, between it 

 and the furcate apical nervule. The subcosto-inferior and discal 

 from a short common stalk. Median 4-branched, the .posterior 

 remote from the others, arising interiorly to the first marginal 

 nervule. Hind wings much broader than the fore wings; with 



