May, '07] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



Plagodis purpuraria n. sp. 



Expanse 29-30 mm. ; forewings deeply notched at anal angle, 

 as in kcutzingaria, but narrower; palpi reddish-purple, tipped 

 with orange ; front, vertex, base of pa f agia, and costa at base, 

 deep reddish-purple ; collar gray, tinged with lilac ; antennae 

 yellow, tipped with violet; thorax in front, and patagia, bright 

 brownish orange, which rapidly fades into pale yellow poste- 

 riorly ; abdomen pale yellow, a few scattering scales, centrally, 

 of jet black, at tip and beneath orange, the whole washed thinly 

 with violet; forewings soft, bright, brownish orange without 

 basal lines, striations, or discal spots. This color ceases abrupt- 

 ly, extradiscally at costa, about two-thirds out, thence inwardly 

 in a straight line to cell, at base of vein 3, it runs nearly 

 straight to inner border of wing, thus forming a slight angle. 

 Inwardly along this margin there is a diffuse shading of brown- 

 ish from costa to vein 3, below which black and violet shades 

 are intermingled and form the suggestion of a vine, while 

 outwardly a wide border, broadest centrally, of lilac scales 

 (changing to white at costa and along it to apex), dis- 

 closing as it fades out about half way to margin, the bright, 

 brownish orange ground color which succeeds it, submarginally 

 from apex to notch. At inner margin the subterminal space is 

 nearly filled with a cloud of black and purple scales, washed 

 with lilac. Fringe orange above notch, purple within it. Hind 

 wings pale yellow, marginally washed with orange. On inner 

 margin two thirds from base, a blotch of orange, black and 

 purple scales indicate the termination of a shadowy line cross- 

 ing the wing centrally. Before anal angle a few black and pur- 

 ple scales, overspread with lilac, not so prominent as on fore 

 wings. Fringe orange, shading into lilac at anal angle. No 

 discal dots. Beneath forewings bright orange above cell, from 

 base to apex below cell, almost white. A diffuse band of 

 orange crosses both wings centrally. Hind wings pale orange 

 basally, pale yellow to margin, beyond central cross band. No 

 discal dots on either wings, legs brownish orange washed with 

 purple. 



Type $ in my collection. The $ in the Strecker collection 

 should be a type and the $ a co-type, but I have no descriptive 

 notes of the former, and while it presents no difference in color 



