200 PROCEEDINGS OP THE ACADEMY OF 



Helotropha reniformis Grote, var. atra. 



I luive received from Mr. Geo. Norman, under the num])er 172, 

 a singular variety of this species taken at St. Catlierine's, Ont., 

 August the 12tli. The specimen is a female. The fore wings 

 are entirelj^ of a dead black, so that the markings become incon- 

 spicuous, and can onl}' be made out with difficulty. The reniforra 

 is, liowever, entirely white, and becomes very prominent by con- 

 trast. The hind wings are more blackish than brownish-fuscous, 

 as is the under surface and the body. 



Gortyna cerina, n. s. 



9. A large species witli the colors of Xanfhia siJago, hu.t a very- 

 much larger insect. I refer it to Gortyna Hubner=:Hydrcecia^ B., 

 Led., from the circumstance tliat the thorax is crested beliind. 

 There is a sharp tuft behind the collar. Bright jellow marked with 

 dull reddish-purple. Head and thorax yellow, with the patagia 

 and crestings shaded with reddish-purple. Fore wings widening 

 outwardly, with sharp apices and rounded external margin, of an 

 intense yellow; the terminal and sub-terminal spaces reddish-pur- 

 ple, separated by the narrow yellow sub-terminal line proceeding 

 from a yellow apical shade spot. The base of the wing is shaded 

 with reddish-purple. The markings are fragmentar}^ ; the orbi- 

 cular small; the reniform large, narrow, diffusely annulated with 

 purplish in broken blotches. The median shade is as apparent as 

 the median lines, all somewhat ocherous, incomplete ; the t. p. 

 line scalloped. Hind wings soiled yellowish-white, a little darker 

 tinted outwardly. Abdomen like hind wings. Beneath like hind 

 wings above, with an obsolete median shade on secondaries ; on 

 the fore wings the darker tintings of the upper surface are partly 

 reflected terminally. 



Expanse 47 mm. Habitat. Kansas (Prof. Snow, No. 258). 



The head seems to me more sunken than in Xanthia, to which 

 the superb species might be referred at first sigiit from the color- 

 ing. 

 Himella, n. g. 



The type of this genus, H. Jidelis, is characterized l\y a resem- 

 blance to the species of Caradina, while differing structurallj'' by 

 the hair^' ej'es. The %, antennae are brush-like. The palpi have the 

 terminal article a little dependent. The tibise ai'e unarmed; the 

 body parts linear and slender ; thorax untufted, hairy. The wings 



