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mesially bordered by an excurved violaceous-grey crescent in the cell, con- 

 necting the costal and median vein shades ; basal Hne obsolete ; t. a. line obso- 

 lescent, double, faintly outlined by a few black scales, strongly excurved in 

 submedian space ; t. p. Hne obsolescent, variable in intensity, in some specimens 

 outwardly marked with black, pale, bounded mesially by brownish shades, 

 strongly excurved from costa to about vein 4, running about half way between 

 the discocellulars and the outer margin, incurved below vein 4; a row of dots 

 marking the veins in the s. t. space ; true s. t. line obsolescent, pale, waved, its 

 course indistinct; terminal line a brown band mesially and distally marked with 

 a few black scales ; a small brown patch between the basal area and the orbicu- 

 lar; a large brown patch filling the cell between the orbicular and the crescent 

 bordering the reniform ; a strong, inwardly oblique brown shade from the costa 

 near the apex, fused with a similar shade below the cell which there occupies 

 most of the basal area to the inner margin; s. t. and terminal areas violaceous- 

 grey dusted with black scales, strongly disconcolorous with the brown areas ; 

 fringe with a broad, pale-rufous interline. Secondaries : pale ochreous, dusted 

 with scattered black scales and tinged with pink ; fringe pinkish in appearance. 

 Beneath : pale ochreous, dusted with black scales, more or less suffused with 

 pink and violaceous-grey; primaries with terminal line and fringe as on upper 

 side ; secondaries with a strong black discal spot, fringe as on upper side. 

 Expanse: 33-36 mm. 



Described by Dr. Dyar in the Cuculliinae. The present genus and 

 species are apparently not very closely allied to any described species 

 from anywhere. The general habitus is decidedly Bombycid, similar 

 in this respect to Acherdoa fcrraria Wlk., only heretofore recorded 

 from Florida, but which the junior author has captured at light in 

 Southern IMississippi. Dyar's types were bred from a grass {Erian- 

 thus saccharoides). Specimens were bred from pinkish larva boring 

 in Sugar Cane, by Mr. E. K, Bynum, Inspector, Mississippi State 

 Plant Board ; and the species had been put into manuscript by the 

 authors, under another name. Because Mr. Dyar's description is 

 rather short, and Mr. Bynum desires a detailed description for future 

 work on this new pest, the authors publish their manuscript, omitting 

 their manuscript name. 



Apatela fragilis race fragiloides nov. 



tfragilis B. & McD. 



1913, B. & McD., Contr. N. H. Lep. N. A., II, (1), 28, ("a very large 

 form"), pi. XIII, f. 9, Acronycta. 



Much larger and brighter than typical fragilis, none of the specimens 

 before the authors showing any tendency for the suffusion and loss of macu- 



