Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . nt me by Mr. Schaus proves it to be Edema frausrerfiata AValk.,Ellida (jclida Grt. (Cat. Noi-tuid;e, p. 29,1SJ3.) Geographical distribution.—New York (Dyar); St. Catherines, Canada (Norman); Canada(French); Kittery, Me. (R. Thaxter); Plattsburg, N. Y., April 20, May l.^>, 10,30 (G. H. ). Nerice Walker.(PI. XLIII, ligs. 1, 1(1. Venation.) Xerice Walk., Cat. Lep. Het. Br. Mus., pt. v, p. 1076, , Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., iii, p. 358, , New Check List N. Amer. Moths, p. 19,, List Lep. Bor. Amer., p. 30, ,
Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . nt me by Mr. Schaus proves it to be Edema frausrerfiata AValk.,Ellida (jclida Grt. (Cat. Noi-tuid;e, p. 29,1SJ3.) Geographical distribution.—New York (Dyar); St. Catherines, Canada (Norman); Canada(French); Kittery, Me. (R. Thaxter); Plattsburg, N. Y., April 20, May l.^>, 10,30 (G. H. ). Nerice Walker.(PI. XLIII, ligs. 1, 1(1. Venation.) Xerice Walk., Cat. Lep. Het. Br. Mus., pt. v, p. 1076, , Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., iii, p. 358, , New Check List N. Amer. Moths, p. 19,, List Lep. Bor. Amer., p. 30, , Syn. Cat. Lep. Het., 1, p. 487, 1892. Xeiim. anil Dyar, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xxi, p. 187, .Tune, 1894; .lourn. X. Y. Ent. Soc, ii, p. 114,.Sept., 1894. Moth.—Head moderately prominent; front squarish, moderately broad, the scales on it evenlycut, rather short; the tuft at the base of each antenna rather prominent. Antenna not quite halfas long as the fore wings, and in £ well pectinated to the tips; the branches four times as long as. Fig. 67.—Frenulum loop ou the costal,?i-iu of the fore wing of Xerice bidentata. 170 MEMOIRS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. tlie anteiiiial Joints, and ciliated. Pa]])i large and stont, ascending, curving- np in front of theclypeus, and re:icliing well beyond the front of the head; the hairs beneiith thick and spreading;third joint small, conical. IMaxilhe short, not reaching out to the paljii. Thorax with a highpointed median tiitt, slojiing behind. Fore wings a little less than one-half as broad as long; costa convex, esi)ecially toward theapex, which is rounded; outer edge oblique, slightly convex to the internal edge. Venation: Along narrow subcostal cell; second and third subcostal ^•enules unusually shoit, the ajncal spacebetween the costa and subcostal vein being very narrow; in this respect the genus is much as inLophodonta (especially L. hnsitriens); the third subcostal venule is oue-half as long as the venati
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