1891.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 155 



A NEW GLUPHISIA. 



By Prof. GEO. H. HUDSON, Plattsburg, N. Y. 



Gluphisia avimacula n. sp. 



Male. Thorax cinereous; vertex of head, collar and anterior half of 

 patagia nearly black; front, palpi and pectus pale brown; legs cinereous, 

 the tarsi ringed with dark brown; abdomen gray. Primaries cinereous, 

 thickly dusted with black scales; a black basal line, dentate on subcostal 

 and median veins and sending down, intermediately, two fine black lines, 

 which reach and enclose the small, pale ochreous basal spot, resting on 

 median vein; obscure on costa and below submedian vein. Second band 

 nearly straight, deep black, prominent, starting on costa at a little less 

 than half way to the apex, slightly angulated outwardly on subcostal and 

 median veins, forming a shallow inward curve or sinus below submedian 

 fold, widening at internal margin. An ochreous subtriangular discal spot 

 edged with black, projecting a point towards the costa and a shorter one 

 towards the base along median vein. Externally contiguous to the discal 

 spot is an indistinct third band, subparallel to the first, slightly waved, 

 pale brown and diffuse, more distinct on internal margin. Beyond this is 

 a narrow and faint fourth beginning on costa at about three-fourths dis- 

 tance from base, parallel to external margin, dentate inwardly on the 

 veins, slightly angulated at vein 2, edged externally with pale cinereous. 

 A fifth band consisting of a row of dark spots, edged within with pale 

 cinereous, runs about midway between band four and the external margin. 

 It has a slightly waved appearance with a shallow inward curve on vein 2, 

 from thence it runs to the outer angle and joins the row of black, diffuse, 

 intervenular spots in the pale cinereous fringe. The ground color of wings 

 is palest between the first two lines, and slightly yellowish beyond and 

 below the discal spot. Secondaries brownish cinereous, with a faint 

 mesial band, dentate inwardly between veins i and 2, more distinct at 

 internal margin, where it is white, shaded before by a black line and behind 

 by a more diffuse black spot, followed by another pale spot before reach- 

 ing margin; fringes as in primaries, but with intervenular spots more dif- 

 fuse, almost forming a continuous line. Beneath concolorous with secon- 

 daries above, tinged with cinereous at the apex of the primaries and outer 

 third of secondaries. On each of the wings, beyond the middle, a slightly 

 undulating darker band edged with pale whitish outwardly and following 

 the course of the band above. 



Female with front cinereous, concolorous with thorax. Expanse : 

 male, 38 mm.; female, 40 mm. 



Described from two males and one female taken May I5th and 

 22d, 1887, and May 10, 1891, at the electric lights, Plattsburg, 

 N. Y. 



THE enterprising bee keeps up with the times by having his apartments 

 arranged in sweets. Yonkers Gazette. 



