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few only extending 1 to the New England States. Harrisina 



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americana is the most common and best known species, and dif- 

 fers from the typical genus in the much narrower wings. Black 

 colors with reddish or yellowish shades basally and on the collar 

 predominate in this family. 



The Ctenuchidas contain species of larger size making a very 

 distinct step toward the Lithosiidae. In external appearance and 

 habitus they are very like the Pyromorphidae, Scepsis having 

 almost precisely the form of Harrisina, and in this family the 

 male antennae are also lengthily pectinated. But the venation is 

 entirely different, the primaries having only one, the secondaries 

 only two internal of free veins. The secondaries yet lack the 

 costal vein. The species of this family are represented in all 

 parts of our territory and some of them are locally common. 

 Ctenucha virginica and Scepsis fithicollis are of our best known 

 eastern species. 



All the families mentioned in this paper were formerly included 

 under the term Zygaenidae. A more detailed statement of char- 

 acters, with figures illustrating the same, can be found in the 

 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xii, p. 77. 



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A NEW SPECIES OF PAMPHILA. 



By HENRY SKINNER, M. D. 



Pamphila errans n. sp. . Expands i% inches (being the dis- 

 tance from the middle of thorax to tip of one wing, doubled); 

 female a little more; upperside dark brown; superiors have two 

 small yellowish spots on the costal nervures about one-third the 

 distance from tip to thorax, and an interrupted row of four spots 

 of the same color on an imaginary line running from the tip to near 

 the middle of the interior margin; the uppermost of these is a 

 mere dot, and is situated at end of discoidal, just below the point 

 of cell. The second is wedge shaped with the point of wedge 

 inward, and is at the junction of two nervures running into a 

 point at the discoidal cell. The third spot is nearly quadrate 

 and larger than the other two. The fourth is resting on the sub- 

 median nervure and is nearly a rectangle. The fringes are yel- 

 lowish white, darker towards the tips. Interiors are immaculate, 

 with the inner two-thirds covered by long hairs of a lighter shade; 



