. Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America ... Lepidoptera. 179 ENDOTRICHIINAE Genus Davisia gen. nov. (Type Davisia singularis sp. nov.). Palpi slender, upturned, not exceeding front; maxillary palpi short, filiform; antennae laterally flat- tened, slightly annulate and ciliate; proboscis present, but reduced; hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs of equal length; primaries 12 veined, vein 2 from before cell, 3 and 4 from a point, 5 slightly removed from 4 at base, 6 from below upper angle, 7, 8 and 9 stalked, 9 from 8 before 7, 10 and 11 free and parallel; secon
. Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America ... Lepidoptera. 179 ENDOTRICHIINAE Genus Davisia gen. nov. (Type Davisia singularis sp. nov.). Palpi slender, upturned, not exceeding front; maxillary palpi short, filiform; antennae laterally flat- tened, slightly annulate and ciliate; proboscis present, but reduced; hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs of equal length; primaries 12 veined, vein 2 from before cell, 3 and 4 from a point, 5 slightly removed from 4 at base, 6 from below upper angle, 7, 8 and 9 stalked, 9 from 8 before 7, 10 and 11 free and parallel; secon- daries 8 veined, 2 from before cell, 3 and 4 from a point, 5 from slightly above, 4, 6 from upper angle, 7 and well stalked, median nervure on upper side non- pectinate. According to Hampson's table (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1898, p. 591) the geni:s would fall into the subfamily Endotrichiiiiae, of which so far no American species are recorded. It might possibly be re- garded as an aberrant genus of Epipaschiinae without tufts on pri- maries or basal tuft to antennae; in general appearance the type species resembles a small Noctitelia. We take pleasure in naming the genus after our friend Mr. W. T. Davis of Staten Is., who formed one of the party in Florida. Davisia singularis sp. nov. (PI. Ill, Fig. 3). Thorax ochreous, shaded with brown; primaries various shades of brown; black dot at base of costa; basal portion of wing light brown, defined outwardly by a smoky t. a. line 1/4 from base bordered inwardly with pale ochreous and slightly angled outwardly in cell; beyond this line is a brown band of similar color and width to basal space, the outer margin of which is evenly ouHvardly oblique: tlie remainder and larger portion of the median space has a pale ochreous ground color, shaded heavily with smoky outwardly, most prominent and broadest above inner margin; a small black discal dot, t. p. line closer to outer margin than usual, blackish, followed by pale shade evenly rounde
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