106 LEPIDOPTERA HETEBOCEKA. 



wings minutely speckled with black; lines brown ; interior and ex- 

 terior lines indistinct, denticulated ; submarginal line very slightly 

 undulating, with a well-defined pale outer border, apparent also 

 like the exterior one on the hind wings ; marginal points black ; 

 underside with distinct lines. Female.— Lines less distinct, except 

 the submarginal one on the fore wings ; this line more undulating 

 than in the male. Length of the body 5—5i lines ; of the wings 

 12—13 lines. 



Var. (3. Larger. Fore wings with the exterior line more 

 macular. 



a—/. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



19. Herminia Pyramusalis. 



Mas. Pallide subpurpurascente-cinerea ; palpi ascendentes, fim- 

 briati ; antennce setis longiusculis ; alee anticce lineis fusees- 

 centibus, interiore et submarginali latis diffusis, hac lineolam 

 undulatam pallide cineream includente, media et exteriore an- 

 gustis undulatis, reniformi e guttis duabus nigricantibus. 



Male. Pale cinereous, with a very pale lilac tinge. Palpi as- 

 cending, fringed with hairs in front ; third joint lanceolate, about 

 half the length of the second. Antenna? with rather long bristles. 

 Fore wings with the lines brownish ; interior and submarginal lines 

 broad, diffuse, the latter including a pale cinereous undulating line ; 

 middle and exterior lines more slender, undulating, irregular ; reni- 

 form mark represented by two blackish dots, which are occasionally 

 connected ; marginal festoon blackish, continued on the hind wings 

 and beneath, as are also the other lines, but less distinctly. Length 

 of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a — d. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Group 3. 



Pedes antici non fasciculati. Maris antennae apices versus 

 nodosa? et fasciculatae, apice convoluta?. 



The species of this group have the characters of the typical 

 Herminice, with the exception of the fore legs, which are not tufted, 

 and of the antenna? of the male, which towards their tips are nodose 

 and furnished with a tuft, the apical part being convoluted. In 



