126 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



white. Primaries consisting of two distinct, uniform colours. The lower 

 and larger area, starting upward from bulge near base in an outwardly 

 curved line, and rounding off sharply at apex, is a field of chestnut- 

 brown. The rest, from below base rounding upward, running parallel 

 with costa to apex and including half of discal cell, is a costal field of 

 bright yellow. Secondaries light yellow, fading into white along anal 

 margin and near basal area. Brown exterior marginal line. Fringes light 

 yellow. 



Below : Abdomen yellowish-white. Primaries and secondaries yel- 

 lowish-white with a decided metallic sheen. A narrow strip of bright 

 yellow along costa of primaries, and in the centre of same a broad brown 

 dash triangularly formed and pointing towards base. Fringes prominently 

 brown. 



Expanse of wings, 22 mm.; length of body, 5 mm. 



Habitat : Houston, Texas. Type, $ . Coll. B. Neumoegen. 



This beautiful Heliothid is unlike any other of our fauna, both in 

 shape of wings and odd markings. It comes, apparently, near the genus 

 Schinia, Hb. 



A NEW BUTTERFLY FROM LOWER CALIFORNL\. 



BY A. G. WEEKS, JR., BOSTON, MASS. 



Fyrgiis pelagica, n. sp. 



Habitat : San Jose del Cabo, Lower California. 



Expanse, 1.25 inches. 



Description. — Under side of palpi and head covered with whitish 

 hairs ; top of same blackish-brown gray ; forehead with some whitish 

 hairs mixed with the darker. Thorax and abdomen blackish above, end 

 of abdomen shading into gray, beneath whitish. Legs covered with 

 whitish hairs, brownish at ends. Antennae blackish, with small white 

 annulations at base of each joint ; club above blackish, tipped with light 

 brown, below light brown down to joint. Wings above dark brownish 

 gray, with white and grayish-white spots, hind margins with a fringe of 

 dark brownish-gray. Hind margin of forewings edged with a dark line, 

 just within which, in interspaces, is a row of indistinct darkish spots, 

 absent in some specimens. The dark brownish-gray covers marginal 



