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not liumped, the skin is polished and innch wrinkled, and the end of the pnpa is rounded, with 
no cremaster, though the larva spins a tough cocoon of dirty gray silk, stuck over with fine 
earth” (Hellins). (Is it i)ossible that L, carmelita belongs to a different genus {Odontosia) from 
L. camelinaf L. cuculla and camellna are closely related in structure and coloration. I have 
not a specimen of carmelita to examine.) 
Lophopteryx elegans Strecker. 
(PI. IV, fig. 8.) 
Lophopteryx elegans Strecker, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1884, p. 255, Jau., 1885. 
Noiodonia notaria Edwards, Eiit. Amer, i, p. 17, April, 1883. 
Smith, List Lep. Bor. Amer., p. 30, 1891. 
Nolodonta elegans Kirhy, Syn. Cat. Lop. Hot., i, j). 606, 1892. 
Ncum. and Dyar, Trans. Amer. Eut. Soc., xxi, p. 184, June, 1894; Journ. N. Y. Ent. See., 
ii, p. 113, Sept., 1894. 
Moth. — Two {? , one 9 . Head and thorax mouse color, the head, and the breast directly under 
the former, darker than the thorax above; thorax behind the scutum edged with silvery white 
s'^ales, while the teguhe are edged with brown scales. Fore ivings of a uniform i>ale vaudyke 
brown, darker on the costal i*egion than on the outer margin, the limits extending between the apex 
and the middle of the inner edge. Veins and their branches darker than the rest of the wing. 
There are no cross lines. Four reddish brown streaks on the outer fourth of the costa, one ending 
very near the apex ; a large one in the fourth subcostal intersiiace, and a smaller, very narrow 
streak in the fifth subcostal interspace. 
The distinctive mark is the cons])icuous silvery white stripe shaded with brown in front, 
beginning at the base of the wing at the origin of the subcostal and cubital veins and extending 
along the internal vein to its basal third, not reaching a point opposite the tuft. The latter is 
small, subacute, and consists of pale ocheroiis and brown scales. Hind wings pale ocherous, dusky 
at the inner angle, which is full and prominent, and brown in tint. There is. no line on the wing. 
At the base of the pale fringe in both wings is a distinct scalloiied broAvn line. Underneath, the 
fore wings are pale mouse-gray; the hind wings mouse color on the costal region, while the rest 
of the wing is whitish ocherous with no spots or lines. 
Expanse of wings, ^ , oO mm.; $ , 57 mm.; length of body, S , 20 mm.; $ , 24 mm. 
Mr. Edwards’s Colorado specimens do not essentially differ from Maine examples. 
This is an exceedingly richly colored moth, and easily recognized by its mouse-brown hue and 
the conspicuous but silvery white shade on the base of the fore wingvS. The Colorado examples 
are frosty ash rather than reddish brown, as Eastern specimens are. 
Geographical distribution, — Oldtown, Me. (Fish, fide Strecker); Umbagog Lake, Maine, July 
4 (Packard); Lonsdale, E. I. (W. Deardeii); Manhattan, Kans., June 15 (Popenoe); Colorado 
(Edwards .Coll., also Strecker); Fort Collins, Colo., June 22 (Baker); Lincoln, Xebr., June G 
(Bruner, U. S. Nat. Mus.); Colorado (French); Colorado, Nebraska, June (U. S. Nat. Mus.); New 
York, Coloi'ado (French); elegans var. Miles City, Mont. (Dyar). 
So far as known, confined to the Appalachian subprovince and to the Eocky Mountain region 
of the Campestidan. 
Lophopteryx cameliiia Linu. 
Lojihoptenjx ainericana Harv., Can. Ent., ix, p. 95, May, 1877. 
Grote, New Check List Lep. N. Amer. Moths, p. 18, 1882. 
Smith, List Lep. Bor. Amer., p, 30, 1891, 
Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lep. Hefc., i, p. 606, 1892. 
Lophopteryx capucina Neum. aud Dyar, Trans. Amer. Eut. Soc., xxi, p. 196, June, 1894; Jouru. N. Y. Ent. Soc.,. 
ii, p. 115, Sept., 1894. 
Moth. — Eyes hairy; antennm short, with long pencils of bristly hair from each joint. 
Primaries with uneven external margin. Bright brown in color, allied to camelina, but less rusty 
or reddish. Nervnles interruptedly marked in very dark brown. Transverse anterior line single, 
forming two approximate obtuse teeth on the cell, dentate below cubital vein. Transverse- 
