38 TOETEICID^. 



t;nAny red, tlie thorax tufted bcliind ; antennai tawny red, pubescent in tlie male. Tore winga 

 — -with tlie costa arclied principally towards the base ; the apex not produced ; apical margin 

 convex — pale ashy grey irroratcd with minute ferruginous red streaks ; a basal patch angu- 

 latcd at its outer edge below the costa ; a wide costal patch commencing before the middle 

 and extending nearly to the apex, emitting a branch at its outer angle posteriorly, which 

 attains the middle of the apical margin, and a small apical spot, all rich tawny red : a slight 

 ferruginous shade extends below the costal patch. Hind wings greyish fuscous, with paler 

 cilia. 2 c?, 2 $. Expanse of wings 20 millims. 



North America : from Mr. Carter's collection. Clemens gives "Virginia " as the 

 habitat of the species. 



Exartema griseoalbanum. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 9.) 



Palpi erect, white, with the second joint enlarged, sparsely clothed; the apical joint 

 short and naked : head, thorax, and antennae dull fuscous ; the face white. Fore wings 

 rather dirty white, with a dull fuscous spot on the middle of the costa ; a larger dull fuscous 

 blotch indented on its outer edge below the middle, covering the base of the wing except 

 along the costa, to which it does not reach ; and a medium-sized dull fuscous spot on the 

 dorsal margin before the anal angle ; the costa and apical margin are dotted with dull 

 fuscous ; a narrow line of the same colour lies at the base of the cilia ; and there is a very 

 pale quadrangular olivaceous shade on the dorsal margin between the basal patch and the 

 dorsal spot. Hind wings dull brownish grey. Type ? . Expanse of wings 14 millims. 



A single specimen from the Eastern States of North America, which is unfortunately a 

 female; but the neurationand general character of the insect seem to place it without doubt 

 in the genus Exartema. -'■'> ?^-t Oh-uLL^'^-i^' 



P.ffiDISCA, Led. 

 Paedisca culminana. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 10.) 



Palpi short ; the middle joint stout, thickly clothed ; the apical joint exposed : antennae 

 greyish white : head greyish white. Fore wings — with the costa arched, depressed at the 

 apex ; the apical margin straight, not indented, with an appressed costal fold in the male — 

 white, with a very faint rosy tinge and some almost obsolete greyish reticulations ; a short 

 basal patch, of which the dark brown outer margin is angulated above the middle; an ill- 

 defined brown triangular spot on the dorsal margin before the anal angle ; and a fuscous- 

 brown shade extending from the costa, in the form of half an arrow-head, to a point above the 

 anal angle, separated from the fuscous-brown cilia by only a narrow whitish streak above the 

 middle of the apical margin ; there are also some faint brownish abbreviated costal streaks 

 above the projecting angle on the inner edge of the dark shade, which, following the idea of 



