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Psyche 7:27-34, 1894.

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legs are concolorous. The primaries on the upper side have a large, irregularly triangu- lar, sub-basal spot of dark brown on the costa its base resting on the costa, and its apex on the submedian vein. This spot is marked
with a golden dot on the costa and is edged externally by geminate parallel lines of pale purple, each ofwhich is defined outwardly by equally narrow darker lines. On the inner margin this spot is defined by an irregular silvery line. The middle area of the wing is purplish grey, clouded with darker brown toward the outer margin. There is a well- defined reniform spot at the end of the cell. Running obliquely from the apex to about the middle of the inner margin is a broken series of golden lines beyond which the outer third is heavily shaded with dark maroon spots, separated by a purplish grey area near the middle of the margin and by a golden subquadrate spot at the outer angle. There is a narrowwhitish marginal line below the apex to about the middle of the margin. The fringes are brown, minutely checked with whitish at the tips of the nervules. The secondaries on the upper side are uniformly plumbeous.
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The female does not differ from the
male except in having the abdomen one-
fourth shorter than the male and much stouter. Expanse, 3, 31 mm. ; ?,33 mm.
HYPODBVA, gen. nov.
Allied to Deva, Walk., from which it may Seuration of I*. barbata, Holl., 15.
readily be distinguished by the greater
breadth of the wings, by the scalloped form of the external margin, and by the fact that the posteriors are provided with triple frenula, whereas in Deva the frenulum is simple.
The males are further characterized by hav- ing the length of the abdomen relatively much shorter and stouter than is the case in the genus Deva.
Type H. barbah, Holl.
11. H. barbata, sp. nov. 8. Upper side
of thorax dark brown, upper side of abdomen fuscous. The lower side of the thorax and abdomen are whitish. The legs are concolor- ous. The primaries upon the upper side have the costa at the base yellowish olivaceous. The remainder of the wing is brownish heav- ily marked with darker brown on the inner half of the wing and at the apex. There is a well-marked reniform spot at the end of the cell, and beyond it touching the costa a sub- triangular grayish spot. The dark inner area of the wing is traversed by a short basal ray of pale gray, terminating where it meets an irregularly curved median line, which runs from the end of the cell to the inner margin one third of its distance from the base. This line is succeeded outwardly by a similar nar- row curved line the direction of the undula- tions in which is the reverse of the inner line. There is a series of interrupted waved sub- marginal lines.
The fringes are paler than
the rest of the wing, and shaded with ashen. The secondaries are uniformly fuscous with the fringes pale gray. Upon the under side both wings are prevalently fuscous. The
primaries are narrowly margined at the apex upon the costa with ochraceous, and more broadly margined with the same color upon the inner margin.
Besides there is a con-
spicuous spot of the same color on the costa just above the end of the cell. The second- aries are laved with pale ashen gray near the base, and have a pale ochraceous spot on the costa beyond the cell, and a narrow ray of the same color running inwardly to the base from this spot, parallel to the costal margin. In - -
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lunulate discal mark at the end of the cell. Expanse, 30-34 mm.
SYMPLUSIA, gen. nov.
Allied to Deva, Walk.
Palpi as in Deva.
The antennae of the male are slightly setose on the basal two-thirds ; the antennae of the female are simple. The abdomen is one-
third longer than the posterior margin of the hind-wing in the male and slightly tufted with hairs. The abdomen of the female is stouter and somewhat shorter. The primaries are subtriangular with the outer margin
slightly produced at the end of vein 4; the posterior margin is shorter than the costal margin. The secondaries are subovate with the costal margin nearly straight, and but Neuration of S. frequens, Holl. 8, 4,
slightly bowed above the cell, with the outer margin rounded, very lightly scalloped
between the tips of the nervules, and the inner margin slightly curved and somewhat deeply excavated at the anal angle. In the primaries the discocellulars form an irregular zigzag with three points from the two outer- most of which veins 5 and 6 are given forth. On the under side the discocellulars are thickened downwardly and form with the
slightly raised parenchyma at the end of the cell a cup-shaped depression as the wing is viewed from the under side. Vein 7 is
emitted from
the upper angle of the cell;
veins 8 and 9 arise from a common stalk, which is emitted from 7 one-third of the dis- tance from the end of the cell. A short bar joins veins 7 and 10 just beyond the upper angle of the cell. In the secondaries vein 5 is nearer vein 4 than vein 6, which with vein 7 springs from the upper angle of the cell. The tibiae are armed with double median and double terminal spurs. Type S. frepeq
Holland.
12. 5'. frequens, sp. nov. 3. Palpi,
front and collar Iuteous; the upper side of the abdomen and thorax fuscous ; lower side of abdomen and thorax paler. Tibiae reddish- ochraceous ; the remaining portions of the legs pale fuscous. The primaries are fuscous, crossed diagonally about the
middle with a
dark shade bordered externally by a pale Ma- cine shade, which is followed on the outer one-third by a darker brownish shade, which is most pronounced about the middle of the outer margin. At the middle of the outer margin there is a lustrous coppery spot. There are some obscure and very narrow
basal and submarginal lines. The fringes are pale. At the apex and just before the apex are a few minute white dots. The sec- ondaries on the upper side are uniformly fuscous with the fringes lighter and slightly checkered with the ground color of the wing. On the under side the costa of the primaries and the entire surface of the secondaries are reddish-ochraceous; the inner two-thirds of the primaries are fuscous ; both wings have a small discal spot; both are crossed by in- complete transverse limbal and transverse marginal lines. The white spots on the
costa of the primaries reappear on the under side. 9. The female is very much like the male in markings. Expanse, f, 20 to 22
mm. ; 9, 21 to 25 mm.
This species appears to be very common,
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in my collection. In worn specimens the
metallic spot on the margin of the primaries does not appear.
PLUSIOCALPE, gen. nov.
Allied to Plusia, but having the posterior margin of the primaries fashioned somewhat after the outline of the genus Calpe, being strongly produced about the middle, and with a greatly produced tuft of long hairs at the outer angle. The "palpi are as in Plusia. The antennae of the male are provided with exceedingly minute setae at the base, visible only under the microscope. The antennae of the female are sim'ple. The male abdomen is produced beyond the inner margin for about one-third of its length. The abdomen of the female is shorter and scarcely projects. The characteristics of the neuration are accurately given in the accompanying cut. The legs
are much shorter than in the preceding
genus, Syrnplusia, and the last pair are armed as in that genus with double median and double terminal spurs on the tibiae. Type P. fallida, Holland.
Neuration of P. pallida, Holl., cf ,j.
13. P. å´f>allida sp. nov. $å Antennae
testaceous; palpi pale ochraceous; collar fuscous, edged with whitish; upper side of thorax and abdomen pale gray; lower side slightly tinged with ochraceous. Primaries on the upper side whitish, shining, clouded with gray on the outer margin, and with a dark gray subquadrate mark on the inner
margin about its middle. There are also
obscure transverse median and transverse limbal lines and a few dark scales sprinkled upon the wing. In flown specimens all the darker markings, of the wing are pretty
nearly obliterated.
The secondaries on the
upper side are pale fuscous, with the costa whitish, shining. The fringes are concolor- ous. On the under side the primaries are fuscous, except on the costa, which from a little before the base to the apex is margined with pale ochraceous, the color band widen- ing uniformly to the apex. The inner mar- gin is whitish, shining.
The fuscous ground
tint is deepest near the costa at the end of the cell. The secondaries are uniformly
very pale gray. or whitish.
$2. The female
is marked like the male, and is simply dis- tinguished by having a shorter abdomen.
Expanse, rf , 20 to 25 mm. ; 2, 23 to 2 j mm, 14. P. frosficfa, sp. nov. 3.
Palpi dark
rufous; eyes black; head, collar and upper side of thorax and abdomen pale gray;
lower side of thorax and abdomen whitish. Primaries on the upper side pale gray trav- ersed by a diagonal line running from the costa before the apex outwardly, and then turning sharply and running diagonally
inwardly to the middle of the hind margin, becoming darker and more distinct as it ap- proaches the inner margin. There is also a conspicuous subtriangular dark spot on the costa above the end of the cell. The secondaries are uniformly pale fuscous on the upper side with the fringes paler. On the under side the wings are marked very much as in the preceding species.
2. The female differs from the male
merely in the possession of a shorter and more robust abdomen. Expanse, if, from
25 to 28 mm.;
9, 28 to 30 mm.




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PERIPLUSIA, gen. nova
Allied to the preceding genus.
Palpi short,
porrect, ascending; antennae simple, Costa of primaries straight, or very slightly curved. Apex acute. Outer margin evenly rounded, as also the inner margin. The outer angle very obtuse, rounded.
The secondaries are
suboval, with the outer and inner margins evenly rounded. The extremity of the ab- domen does not project beyond the outer
margin of the secondaries. The neuration is depicted in the accompanying cut. Type 2'. m~6iZicosta Holland.
Neuratim of P. nubilicosta, Holl., 8, f. IS. P. ~u6ilc'costiz, sp. nov. 8. Palpi
pale ochraceous ; front whitish ; collar dark brown, edged with pale cinereous. Upper
and under side of thorax and abdomen pale gray. Legs gray with the anterior margin of the tibiae of the first pair marked with dark brown. The primaries on the upper
side are pale gray marked just below the costal margin, which is Macine-gray, with a broad diffuse dark brown, or blackish ray running from the base to beyond the cell, and then sweeping upwardly to the apex.
The secondaries on the upper side are uni- formly fuscous. On the ~mder side the
wings are marked as on the upper side, but all the markings are paler and more diffuse. Expanse, 32 mm.
16. P. ci~emscens, sp. nov. 8.
Body and
appendages much as in the preceding species, save that the collar instead of being brown? as in that species? is uniformly dark gray. The primaries on the upper side are obscure cinereous, in fresh specimens suffused with a light plumbeous tint. There is an obscure minute whitish dot at the end of the cell and the wings are crossed by irregular obscure dark transverse sub-basal, median? limbal, and submarginal lines- The upper side of the secondaries is uniformly fuscous. The under side of primaries is fuscous with the apical extremity of the costa, the inner mar- gin, and a linear mark at the end of the cell whitish.
The under side of the secondaries
is pale fuscous with the outer margins darker. There is a pale spot at the end of the cell, and beyond it running from the middle of the costa an incomplete transverse median dark line.
9. The female is like the male, but with a more robust abdomen? and somewhat
darker. Expanse, 8, 30 to 33 mm. ; 9, 33 mm. Habitat, Kangwd and Benita.
17. P. eccZi$sis, sp. nov. 8. Palpi whitish. Upper side of thorax and abdomen pale gray; lower side of thorax, abdomen, and legs
whitish. Primaries on the upper side gray, slightly paler on the outer margin, with a very large dark brown, semi-lunate spot on
the
costa from its middle to just before the apex. The lower edge of this spot touches the second median nervule. It is cut at its outer extrem- ity just before the apex by a very narrow pale line. There is a very narrow marginal line of brown and a small brown dot near the outer angle. The secondaries are fuscous on the upper side. On the under side both wings are pale fuscous and both have a very obscure and incomplete transverse litnbal line. Expanse, 25 mm.




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TARGALLODES, gen. nov.
Allied to the genus Targalla, Walk., and intermediate between it and Marasmalus,
Grote. Antennae simple. Palpi com-
pressed) erect, the third joint slender, naked, or very slightly clothed with scales; as long as the second joint; first and second joints heavily clothed with scales.
The primaries
are relatively narrow, subtriangular) the costa nearly straight, the outer margin slightly rounded, the inner margill curved at the base, straight for one-third of its length from the base to the outer angle.
The outer margin
is somewhat deeply excavated at
the outer
angle. The secondaries are subovate. The neuration is given in the accompanying cut. The legs are relatively short and armed on the tibiae with well developed te:-mind spurs. The abdomen is robust. Type Ta~gaZZodes
rufala, Holland.
18. T, rufzdla) sp. nov. ?. Palpi pale
brown ; front whitish; upper side of head pale gray ; upper side of thorax and abdomen pale I-ufous ; ~~ncler side of thorax and abdo- men together with the legs whitish. The
tarsi are ringed with pale rufo~~s. The prim- aries on the upper side are pale ferruginous with a lilacine lustre in certain lights, They
are traversed by very obscure darker sub- basal, median, and limbal lines. Before the apex extending from the costa to the end of the second median nervule there is a curved brownish line margined externally b~ bright ferruginous. There is a very obscure reni- form spot at the end of the cell. The second- aries are whitish with the costa stramineous, shining, and the outer margins marked with obscure rusty spots. In certain lights the wings reflect an iridescent 1~1stre. On the under side the primaries are rufous with the costa and the inner margin paler, traversed before the apex by geminate incomplete lim- bal and s~~bmarginal lines. The secondaries on the under side are uniformly whitish with the costa slightly tinged with ochraceous. Expanse, 33 mm-
There is an unnatned specimen of this
in-
sect in the British M~~seum.
EUTELIA, Hiibn.
19. E. (?) st~&aZa, sp. vov. 8. The
body is cinereous. The primaries are gray, shaded about the middle with pale olive-green and traversed by a number of darker lines of dark olive-brown as follows : a transverse basal line, an irregularly angulated and gem- inate sub-basal line, an exceedingly irregular transverse median line, which makes two
loops at the end of the cell, in the innermost of which loops is a gray reniform spot pupiled with a black point. Beyond this line is an irregularly curved and geminate transverse limbal line, which is succeeded near the apex by a zigzag and irregularly curved submar- ginal line.
There is a very faint dark mar-
ginal line. The fringes are concolorous, obsc~~rely checkered with darker brown.
The secondaries on the upper side are fuscous with some obsc~~re dark lines at the anal angle) between which there are paler lines. On the under side the primaries are fuscous with the costa margined with rufous at the base. There is a pale discal spot at the end



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of the cell and some obscure and inconlplete limbal and submarginal dark lines before the apex. The secondaries are paler, and there is a black dot on the cell followed by a very clearly defined dark transverse median line, which is succeeded by two equally dark irreg- ularly curved parallel transverse limbal lines. Expanse, 32 mm,
Without having material enough to make a dissection I cannot be absolutely certain of the generic reference in this instance.
PENICILLARIA, Guen.
20. P. morosa, sp. nov. 8. The palpi,
front, and upper side of the thorax are dark chocolate brown, the upper side of the abdo- men and the lower side of the thorax and the abdomen are pale chocolate. The legs are concolorous. The primaries are bright chocolate brown, traversed by darker irregu- larly curved and parallel basal,
sub-basal,
median, limbal, and submarginal lines, of which the limbal line is geminate, and the sub-basal and apical portion of the submar- ginal line and the costal end of the geminate limbal line are very dark and conspicuous. The secondaries are fuscous with the costa lighter testaceous. The fringes are reddish chocolate. The under side of the wings is fuscous with the costa a ~ d outer margin of the primaries and the base and inner margin of the secondaries reddish chocolate. Both wings have a small linear mark at the end of the cell ; both are traversed by limbal and submarginal lines and the secondaries have in addition a transverse median line. Ex- panse, 29 mm.
21. P. solitaria, sp. nov. 8.
The palpi
and front are whitish. The upper side of the thorax and abdomen is light brown.
The under side of the thorax and abdomen are paler. The legs are concolorous. The primaries are pale reddish fawn. There is a small dark brown spot in the cell and a pale reniform spot at its end. A dark line runs from the middle of the costa to the reniform and then sweeps inwardly to the inner margin which it reaches a little be- yond the base. A similar line, but much
finer and paler traverses the wing beyond the cell. The portion of the wing between these two lines is somwhat darker than the rest of the wing, especially near the inner margin. On the costa before the apex is
a large triangular brown spot and below
it a smaller triangular spot of the same color. The seco~daries are fuscous, darkest on the outer margin, and pale gray on the inner margin. On the under side, both
wings are pale fulvous, lighter toward the