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PHRAGMATOBIA ASSIMILANS Walker. 



BY ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON. 



About a year and a half ago I described (" Ento. Amer. " 

 May, 1889) the rediscovery, at Franconia, N. H., of this inter- 

 esting species. 



It will be remembered that, among Walker's types in British 

 Museum, there are two forms under this name, marked respec- 

 tively, A. and B. One of these forms is thus described (I will 

 not apologise for repeating the description, as it has not been 

 printed recently): 



"Male. Red. Antennae testaceous. Thorax with brown 

 hairs. Wings red, veins darker. Primaries slightly brown along 

 the costa and elsewhere indistinctly sprinkled with pale brown; 

 with two blackish dots. Secondaries brighter red, with three 

 black dots, two in disc and one near hind border towards inner 

 angle. Length of body, 6 lines; of wings, 16 lines." As I said 

 in my former paper my moth, taken at Franconia, May, 1886, 

 corresponds in every respect with this description, save that it is 

 a female and larger. 



Of the other form Walker says: " Var. Primaries almost 

 wholly brown. Secondaries with broad, blackish, submarginal 

 stripe." 



This last variety I was so fortunate as to capture this year at 

 Franconia. It is, like the one taken two years before, a female, 

 in fine condition, having evidently just emerged. It differs from 

 the first one not only by its blackish, irregular border on hind 

 wrings, and its somewhat darker primaries, but in having two 

 diffuse, dark, transverse lines on fore wings, which are but faintly 

 suggested in the other. I do not find that this species of Walker's 

 is represented in any collection, except that of the British Mu- 

 seum, whel*e the types two worn and damaged specimens, I am 



