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Psychomorpha Epimenis
This very beautiful little moth appears on the wing early in the spring in Pennsylvania. It is not uncommon in the Atlantic States. Hitherto it has been placed by many authors among the Agaristidae, but we incline to the opinion that it is better located where we have put it, among the Noctuidae. Larval characteristics, however, show a great likeness in this stage of development to the species included in the genus Alypia. The accompanying cut, which we have reproduced from the writings of Prof. C. V. Riley, may be compared in this connection with the figure of the larva of Alypia octomaculata given on page 144.