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TWO NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY A. RADCLIFFE GROTE, HILDESHEIM, GERMANY. 



Peridroma canities, n. sp. — Form and markings of the Texan 

 P. annexa, but of a different, dusty gray, colour and a little shorter 

 winged. Primaries dusty gray, with a slight dusky shading along costa, 

 against which the pale dots, marking inception of transverse lines, are 

 relieved. T. p. line tolerably distinct, indentate interspaceally, with 

 included pale shade. Veins marked with fuscous. T. a. line double, 

 with a strong outward inflection above internal margin. Claviform blunt, 

 filled in with fuscous. Orbicular with central dot. Reniform moderate, 

 filled in with fuscous. Cell slightly darker shaded. Markings incon- 

 spicuous, concolorous. Hind wings ( 9 ) white. 



Received with P. massium, Guen., from G. Schimpf, Buenos Ayres. 

 I am indebted to Sir George Hampson for determinations. The present 

 species is unnamed in the British Museum. The thoracic markings are 

 faint; collar dusky, abdomen paler, with faint dorsal shade. According 

 to Tutt, saucia is the type of Peridroma, Hb. (see Grote, List, etc., 20). 



Loxostege triumphalis, n. sp. — Apparently allied to annaphilalis, 

 Grote, but a smaller insect (20 mm.), and without the brown spot on 

 primaries and the black line on the orange hind wings (see Can. Ent., 

 XIII. , 34). The species has the same false air of an Annaphila, owing to 

 the colours. Fore wings blackish, with a sprinkling of bone-coloured or 

 white scales, somewhat lustrous. Reniform a black cloud. Transverse 

 lines obsolete. A discontinuous series of black antemarginal dots. 

 Fringes blackish, intermixed with whitish scales. Hind wings pure dull 

 orange, with neatly defined blackish fringes, and a blackish shading at 

 base ; beneath both wings orange like hind wings above ; a black mark on 

 fore wings in place of reniform. Costa of primaries marked with black 

 before apices, which latter show a blackish shading. Body above and 

 appendages black or blackish like primaries, the abdominal segments 

 vaguely defined by scattered pale scales ; beneath, with under side 

 of palpi, orbits of the eyes, legs, more or less white or whitish. The 

 clypeal prominence is feeble. 



Two male specimens of L. triumphalis were sent me from San Luis 

 Obispo, California, by Mr. Geo. Franck. So far as the literature is 

 accessible to me, I find no description of the species. One specimen 

 is unset. 



