22 TOETEICiDiE. 



North America. From Mr. Carter's collection. Robinson gives Pennsylvania, Zeller 

 gives New York and Ohio as localities for this species. 



Although INIr. Walker's type is a male, he fails to mention the very conspicuous costal 

 fold ; and Prof. Zeller, -who follows him in placing the insect in the genus Dichelia, describes 

 it from two female specimens only, adding the words " revolucro ^ nuUo ? " 



The presence of the costal fold in the male excludes it from the genus Dichelia ; but 

 although this and the following species agree in all essential points with the distinguishing 

 characteristic of the genus Capua mentioned in Heinemann's synopsis, and with Stephens's 

 original description of it, they differ somewhat from his typical species Capua ochraceana in 

 the form of the anterior wings, especially in the less oblique apical margin. 



Capua lentiginosana. (Plate LXV. fig. 5.) 



Palpi triangular, depressed, acute, dull ochreous at the sides, paler above ; head whitish 

 grey; antennae dull ochreous, pubescent. Fore wings — with the costa arched (an adpressed 

 costal fold at the base in the male) ; apical margin scarcely oblique, not indented — more than 

 twice as long as wide ; dull brownish ochreous, sparingly dotted with fuscous towards the base 

 and apex and along the apical margin, with a conspicuous abbreviated fuscous fascia beyond 

 the middle of the dorsal margin, extending two thirds across the wing, having its inner edge 

 angulated below the middle. Hind wings pale subochreous grey. 2 ^. Expanse of wings 

 14 millims. 



Texas. 



These specimens are in bad condition. I should not have described the species without 

 better types, had it not been for its obviously distinct and interesting characters. 



SCIAPHILA, 7'r. 



Sciaphila horariana. (Plate LXV. fig. 6.) 



Head, palpi, and thorax cinereous grey ; antennge simple in both sexes. Fore wings 

 lanceolate in the male, more than three times as long as wide, grey, sparsely irrorated with 

 cinereous : a narrow outwardly-bent fascia near the base, and another wider about the 

 middle, both cinereous, edged and irrorated with blackish-fuscous scales ; the latter is narrowed 

 in the middle, assuming the form of an hourglass, and is connected along the costal and 

 dorsal margins with a pale cinereous shade extending over the apical portion of the wing, 

 leaving a circle of the paler ground-colour between them. Hind wings pale greyish fuscous ; 

 cilia slightly paler. A greyish anal tuft in both sexes. \ ^ , 1 ? . Expanse of wings 

 ^ 22 millims., ? 18 millims. 



Crooked River, near Fort Klamath, Oregon, Sept. 21st, 1872. 



Sciaphila trigonana, (Plate LXV. fig. 7.) 

 Palpi slender, not clothed, projecting about the length of the head beyond it ; the apical 



