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wo external and three internal angles. Middle field black mixed 
1th gray except at posterior margin, where it is largely suf- 
lsed with reddish brown. White scales usually forming distinct 
iscal spots, in one case broadly ringed with black. Outer line 
ariable; when distinct, with tw T o internal and one external 
ngles. Commonly distinctly bordered with black within, and 
allowed without by a reddish shade (except near costa, w 7 here 
his merges in black, which is broadly bordered by light gray). 
. marginal black line, commonly broken by veins. Fringe dusky, 
ith white line at base. Hind wings smoky, with black mar- 
inal line and dusky veins, and fringe with white basal line fol- 
jwed by a dusky band, beyond which it is paler. Surface of 
ind wings considerably bronzed, the fore wings less so. Be- 
eath, wings fuscous bronzed. Outer field of fore wings some- 
hat paler, hind wings gradually darkening outw r ard. 
Antennae dark; proboscis gray; palpi dusky bronzed. 
Described from twelve Illinois specimens. 
Distribution; Colombia, S. A. (Zeller), Florida, Texas, Colo- 
ido, Utah, Washington. Pretty general throughout the east- 
?n United States and Canada.—Hulst. 
LITERATURE. 
The species was first described in 1863 as Nephopteryx semi- 
meralis by Walker in the British Museum Catalogue, Part 27, 
. 58; and again in 1882, according to a note kindly sent me 
y Mr. Hulst, as Euzophera impletella , Zeller,* * * § this description 
eing based on specimens from Colombia, S. A. In this country 
was described by Hulst in 1887 in “Entomologica Americana” 
Vol. 3, p. 137) as Stenoptycha pallulella. 
The original description of the genus was given by Heinemann 
nder the name Stenoptycha in 1865, in his work on the Lep- 
loptera of Germany and Switzerland,! but as this generic name 
as preoccupied by Zeller,! the genus w 7 as rechristened Melia by 
[einemann, on a later page of the same work.§ Melia proved, 
owever, also to be preoccupied || as noted by Zeller in 1867, and 
ie current Euzophera w r as then finally proposed.** 
* Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., 1882, vol. 16, p. 224. 
+ Die Schmetterlinge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, 1865, p. 190. 
t Entom. Zeitung Stettin, 1863, p. 154. Zellei-’s u-e of this name for a genus of Ptero- 
tioridae is also illegitimate, as it has already been applied by Agassiz to a Medusa (Contr. 
at. Hist. United States, 1862, vol. 2, p. 149). 
§ 1. c., p. 209. 
II Used previously in Muscidae, Pyralidae, Crustacea, Mollusca, and botany. 
** Entom. Zeitung Stettin, 1867, p. 377. 
