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species on whicli this genus is founded has been apparently overlooked 
by former describers although its extremely showy colors make it easy 
of description and a desirable subject to figure. 
This genus presents many affinities to the Cymatophorina, but the 
nervulation of the posterior wings clearly excludes it from that family. 
I am inclined to regard it as forming the connecting link between the 
Cymatophorina and Noctuina, and as such it should head the present 
family, but I need more material for further dissections to assure me 
that the position here assumed is the correct one. 
P. regnatrix nov. sp. Plate 8, fig. 4. 
Anterior wings bright pink; median space black superiorily, show¬ 
ing the ordinary spots large, well defined, with black centres and 
broadly margined with orange. Median lines black, apparent only on 
the inferior half of the wing; the transverse posterior succeeded by 
an undulating series of black spots which traverses the wing from 
costal to internal margins and runs parallel to the subterminal line 
which consists of a similar series of larger black spots. Base of the 
wing pink, showing the median nervure black, bordered inferiorily by 
an orange stripe which extends across the median space to the trans¬ 
verse posterior line; costa tinged with orange and black. Terminal 
space black, interrupted with pink and with a terminal row of squarish 
orange colored marks which extends from apical to internal angles. 
Posterior wings, as well as under surface of both pair, blackish, im¬ 
maculate. Thorax and head blackish sprinkled with whitish; abdo¬ 
men black; antennae light colored on the inside, blackish outwardly. 
% expands 11 inch. 
The markings are distinct and well defined, and the colors remark¬ 
ably vivid. 
Genus ANTH(ECIA Boisduval. 
1. Anthoecia marginata Haworth.-'- 
Crambus marginatus Haworth, 374. 
*The synonymy of this species here adopted is indicated by Guenee (Del- 
toides et Pyralites p. 128). The original description (vide Stephens) leaves lit¬ 
tle doubt that this is the species intended and is as follows: ‘^Alis fuseeseenti- 
bus, fasciis duabus fuscis albo marginatis, antica basi, postica marginal!.” 
Small specimens of this species, especially when rubbed, have much the ap¬ 
pearance of the family under which it was originally described. During my 
investigation of the present synonymy I was much indebted for kind assist- 
