1890.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 51 



wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures brown-black, upper nervure of third 

 discoidal cell bent downwards at about the middle, so that the cell is nar- 

 rowed at base; legs, including coxa?, white; spot on coxae and trochanters 

 within, broad stripe on femora within, tips of four posterior tibia? and of 

 their tarsal joints, black; abdomen brown-black, rather closely punctured, 

 segments 2-5 above with a rounded elevation on each side about the mid- 

 dle; segment-; i and 3-5 quadrate; segments rather longer than broad; 

 ovipositor a.; long as the body, honey-yellow, sheaths black. Length .40 

 inch. 



<3\ More slender than the 9 ; head, metathorax and abdomen jet-black; 

 face with a fine whitish pubescence; all the abdominal segments longer 

 than broad and clothed with a short, fine, whitish sericeous pubescence; 

 basal segment above with a longitudinal central groove. Length .37 .40 

 inch. 



Described from one female in collection Amer. Ent. Soc. from 

 Missouri, and two males reared by Dr. Hamilton, as stated above. 



-E. T. C] 



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NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY HENRY SKINNER, M. I). 



A SPHINX NOT KNOWN IN AMERICAN COLLECTIONS. Proto- 

 parce dalica was described by Kirby in Trans. Ent. Soc. London 

 (1877), p. 243. Locality Canada. There is a good figure of it 

 on page 70 in the " Aid to the Identifications of Insects," Vol. i, 

 by C. O. Waterhouse. Dr. H. Strecker thinks this is an aber- 

 rant form of P. rustica, and such it will likely prove to be. 



ARCTIA PALLIDA Pack. Prof. J. B. Smith, in " Can. Ent." 

 February, 1890, p. 35, says "the type of pallida is in the collec- 

 tion of the Am. Ent. Soc., where I have several times seen it. 

 It is certainly not an Arctia, but perhaps nearer Seirarctia." The 

 specimen in the collection of the Society was marked type on the 

 authority of Mr. Aaron. He showed it to Prof. Packard, when 

 he was here on a visit, who said he thought it might be his type. 

 The specimen has a Pennsylvania locality label on it, and also 

 Dr. Lewi--/ name. In the original description of the species Prof. 

 Packard says, "I am indebted to Mr. Calverly for the lean of 

 this fine, and apparently very rare species." Locality given is 

 New York. The specimen in question, in my opinion, is an aber- 

 ration of Hvphanti'ia I'unca of Drury, but it also answers to the 

 description ol . /. pallida. \* pallida known to exist? has any 

 one the species ? Is our specimen the t\ | 



