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TOETEICID^. 
PHiECASIOPHORA, Grote. 
Phaecasiophora confixana. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 6.) 
Sciaphila confixana, TFflZ/t. Cat. Lep. Het. xxviii. p. 340. 
Sciaphila? perductana, WaVc. Cat. Lep. Het. xxviii. p. 341. 
Sericoris mutabilana, Clem. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. v. p. 135. 
Phaecasiophora mutabilana, Grote, Bull. Puff. Soc. i. p. 90, pi. 11. figs. 4-6; Zell. Verli. z.-b. Oes. 
Wien, XXV. p. 276. 
Sericoris permundana, Grote Mob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 83. 
Palpi clingy 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 tibiae covered with long coarse whitish 
scales in the male. 2 S • 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 Kobinson (/. c.) consider Walker's Sciaphila confixana to be the Exartema 
permundanum of Clemens ; but a careful examination does not support this view. 
EXAETEMA, 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, 
