416 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 



ALASKA INSECTS. 



BY W. J. HOLLAND, L.L.D. 



PART II. 

 Family LYC.ENID.E. 



Genus LYC-ENA Fabricius. 

 24 L. saepiolus Bdv. 



i $ , Fort Selkirk, N. W. Territory, ; e 28. (Young.) 



25. L. afra Edwards. 



i $ , Tagish Lake, B. C., June 21 (Koonce) ; i & , White 

 Horse, N. W. Territory, June 24 (Young) ; I , Lake La- 

 barge, N. W. Territory, June 27 (Young). 



26. L. sp. ? 



I have a number of specimens of a form which is near L. 

 afra Edw., and yet still nearer to L. lygdamas Doubleday, 

 which puzzle me. They are not exactly referable to either 

 species. They may represent a boreal race of L. lygdamas, but 

 I am in doubt, and therefore withhold further comment. 



27. L. lotis Lintner. 



This species was originally described from Mendocino, Cali- 

 fornia. The specimens probably came from Mt. Shasta. It 

 appears to be common in Alaska. 



25 $ $ , 9 9 , Eagle City, Alaska, July 8-14. (Young.) 



28. L. yukona sp. nov. 



cf Wings on the upper side uniformly dark purplish violet, the outer 

 margin of both wings marked by a very narrow brown line, the fringes 

 whitish. On the under side the wings are obscure ashen-gray, both wings 

 at the base obscured by bluish gray scales. The primaries have a discal 

 mark at the end of the cell surrounded by a light whitish circle. Beyond 

 this there is a transverse line of discal spots, six in number, gradually in- 

 creasing in size from the costa to the inner margin, the spot nearest the 

 inner margin being double. Beyond this along the margin is an even row 

 of fine narrow dark linear spots, succeeded inwardly by a corresponding 

 series of heavier sagittate markings, the points turned toward the base. 

 The secondaries are marked by three small black spots near the base, 

 arranged in a straight series, one above the cell, one on the cell, and one 

 about the middle of the inner margin. At the end of the cell is a trans- 

 verse linear dark spot margined with white ; beyond this a curved limbal 

 series of black spots margined with white ; the upper five spots forming 

 an evenly curved series beyond the cell, the sixth, which is a double spot, 



