206 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September, 



A New Chionobas from Maine. 



BY H. H. NEWCOMB. 

 Chionobas katahdin n. sp. 



Male. Size and general character of semidea, but with the 

 outer third of wings much lighter in color. Primaries with 

 one to four small spots parallel to the outer margin. Edge of 

 costa and fringes concolorous. Undersides of inferiors have a 

 wide band, much as in taygete. The female has the same gen- 

 eral character as the male, but on the inferiors below there is a 

 row of five spots. Described from a number of specimens taken 

 by the writer on Mount Katahdin. A detailed description and 

 account of the species will appear inthe October NEWS. 



A New Anthomyid Injurious to Lupines. 



By D. W. COQUILLETT. 

 Phorbia lupini n. sp 



. Black, the halteres yellow, frontal vitta reddish brown, middle and 

 hind tibiae largely yellowish brown ; eyes contiguous, about eight pairs 

 of frontal bristles, antennae very broad, noticably shorter than the face, 

 the third joint only slightly longer than the second, pubescence of the 

 arista very short, proboscis short and rather robust ; thorax thinly brown- 

 ish pruinose, the posterior portion gray, pruinose and marked with a dark 

 median vitta, the sides and pleura densely light gray pruinose ; scutellum 

 brownish pruinose, margined with light grey ; abdomen narrow, nearly 

 linear, its five segments of nearly an equal length, dark gray pruinose and 

 marked with an indefinite, blackish median vitta, the venter not furnished 

 with processes, its hairs rather long and of nearly an equal length, hypo- 

 pygitim rather large, its first segment densely grey pruinose, the second 

 polished, bearing many rather long hairs ; front tibiae each bearing a bris- 

 tle near the middle of the posterior side, a blunt pointed one at the apex 

 on the posterior side besides a few normal bristles elsewhere at the apex ; 

 middle femora ciliate, with long bristles on the basal half of the posterior 

 under side, and with very short ones on the apical half ; middle tibiae each 

 bearing a bristle near two-thirds the length of the anterior outer side, one 

 slightly higher on the posterior outer side, one near the middle and another 

 near three fourths the length of the inner side ; hind femora ciliate almost 

 the entire length of their under side, with long bristles of nearly an equal 

 length ; hind tibiae ciliate, with about seventeen almost straight, rather 

 long bristles on nearly the entire length of the posterior inner side, with 

 from four to six on the anterior inner side, from five to seven on the ante- 

 rior outer side, and the same number on the posterior outer side, besides 



