36 TOETElCIDJi. 



PH^CASIOPHORA, Grote. 



Phaecasiophora confixana. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 6.) 



Sciapliila confixana, Walk. Oat. Lep. Het. xxviii. p. 340. 



Sciaphila? perductaua, Wcilh. Gat. Lep. Het. xxviii. p. 341. 



Sericoris mutabilana, Clem. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. v. p. 135. 



Phaecasiophora mutabilana, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. i. p. 90, pi. 11. figs. 4-6; Zell. Verh, z.-h. Ges. 



Wien, XXV. p. 276. 

 Sericoris permundana, Grote Sc Boh. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 83, 



Palpi dingy brownish grey, projecting less than the length of the head beyond it; the 

 second joint thickly clothed; apical joint exposed, fuscous: head brownish grey, thickly 

 clothed above ; antennae scarcely pubescent. Fore wings — with the costa arched, the apex 

 slightly rounded, apical margin convex — pale fawn-brown, mixed with fuscous scales, with 

 a short indistinct basal patch ; an oblique geminated wavy fascia dilated outwardly on the 

 dorsal margin, and a similar, rather narrower, geminated fascia beyond the middle, all pale 

 whitish ochreous with a faint rosy tinge ; the first has two small excrescences, one on the 

 outer side, at the middle, the other on the inner side near the dorsal margin ; the second has 

 a projection on its inner edge reaching to the dorsal extension of the first, and is continued 

 round the anal angle in a series of detached spots along the apical margin, where it is 

 joined by some geminated subapical streaks from the costa : cilia whitish, especially at the 

 anal angle, touched with fawn-brown above it. Hind tibise covered with long coarse whitish 

 scales in the male. 2 ^ . Expanse of wings 19 millims. 



North America : from Mr. Carter's collection. New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia 

 {Grote) . 



In redescribing this species I have reversed the usual practice of mentioning first the paler 

 shades of the wing-colours, thus making the description entirely independent of those of 

 other authors, whilst endeavouring not to fall short of them in accuracy or simplicity. 

 Messrs. Grote and Robinson {I. c.) consider Walker's Sciaphila confixana to be the Exartema 

 permundanum of Clemens; but a careful examination does not support this view. 



EXARTEMA, Clemens. 



Exartema sericoranum. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 7.) 



Palpi yellowish white, erect; the second joint thickly clothed beneath; the apical joint 

 short, exposed, tipped with fuscous : antennae dull ochreous, slightly pubescent in the male : 

 head, thorax, and patagia ferruginous. Fore wings — twice as long as wide; costa arched; 

 apical margin slightly convex — ferruginous, slightly shaded with fuscous, with irregular fasciae 

 and streaks, bluish grey internally, narrowly margined with whitish ochreous. The first 

 fascia is geminated at the costa before the middle, bulged on its outer edge along the cell, 



