428 PROCEEDINGS OE THE ACADEMY OF 



NOTES ON THE NOCTUID2E, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF CERTAIN NEW 



SPECIES. NO. II. 



BY H. K. MORRISON. 



Arsilonche albovenosa, Goze. 



Leucania henrici, Grote. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., vol. i. p. 10. PI. 



1, fig. 15, 1873. 

 Leucania evanidwm, Grote, 1. c. fig. 16. 

 Ablepliaron henrici, Grote, 1. c. p. 112. 

 Ablepliaron evanidum, Grote, 1. c. p. 112. 

 Aberr. AM. ftanosum, Morr. 1. c. p. 275. 



We have sent to Dr. O. Staudinger, the eminent European 

 lepidopterist, specimens of Ablepliaron henrici, and he has pro- 

 nounced it identical with albovenosa ; specimens of the latter re- 

 ceived from him a short time ago have been compared with hen- 

 rici and evanidum, and confirm his decision ; the latter is the 

 form in which the interspaceal lines are almost obliterate, and 

 seems the most common here as well as in Europe; fumosum, 

 however, we now believe to be an aberration, in which the en- 

 tire wings are suffused with smoky black. Abl. absidum, Harvey, 

 we do not know, but if a good species, it should be referred to 

 Arsilonche. The place of this genus is at the head of the Noc- 

 tuidse, near Acronycta, not near Leucania ; this is confirmed by 

 the larva 1 , which have been observed in this country, as well as in 

 Europe. 



Panthea leucomelana, nov. sp. 



Expanse 40 mm. Length of body 14 mm. 



Eyes hairy. Head sunken. Thorax untufted, with coarse vil- 

 losity. Abdomen short and untufted. Tibia? unarmed. Antenna? 

 of the male testaceous, serrate, with a white tuft at the base. 

 Palpi very short and weak. Anterior wings white, crossed by 

 four black dentate lines; half line present; basal and interior 

 half of the median space white, crossed by the distinct well-defined 

 interior line, the orbicular spot appears as a black dot ; exterior 

 half of the median space black, with the exception of a space 

 above and around the small black encircled reniform spot ; exte- 

 rior line strongly dentate, and drawn in beneath the cell ; sub- 

 terminal line very irregular, preceded by a more or less distinct 

 diffuse black shade ; black shadings in the terminal space. 



