1894-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 25 



Griffith and Castle. This being the business meeting of the year, the re- 

 ports of the different officers were read and the following named gentle- 

 men were elected to serve for the coming year: 



Director, G. H. HORN, M.D. 



Vice-Director, C. S. WELLES. 



Recorder, H. SKINNER, M.D. 



Treasurer, E. T. CRESSON. 



Conservator, H. SKINNER, M.D. 



... ,. ~ ... f T. H. RIDINGS, 

 Publication Committee^ <. ^ ^ JOHNSON 



The following papers were, read and accepted by the Committee for 

 publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS : 



A NEW HEPIALUS FROM CALIFORNIA. 



By HARRISON G. DYAR. 



Kepialus lembertii n. sp. Light fawn color, of the tint usual in this 

 genus ; secondaries blackish, with a small, pale spot at apex. Below 

 both wings blackish, the fringe pale. On the fore wings are a series of 

 dusky whitish, subquadrate, intervenular spots, each neatly surrounded 

 by a smoky black border. The spots are arranged in six irregular, eaten - 

 ulate, transverse bands, as follows: (i) Two rather large spots at base 

 of cell and vein i (ix) respectively; (2) two or three small ones below me- 

 dian vein (cubitus); (3) a transverse, complete row before middle of wing 

 of about five spots, nearly straight; (4) a row of small ones from end of 

 cell to costa, becoming furcate before reaching costa; (5) a complete row 

 of about eight spots in the transverse-posterior position, dislocated at 

 vein 4 (v r 3); (6) a terminal row, leaving the margin for a short space near 

 the terminations of veins 7 to 9 (iiis to iii3). Veins indicated in smoky 

 black. Expanse 31-33 mm. 



Described from two examples captured in the high Sierras of 

 California by Mr. John B. Lembert. 



Mr. Lembert writes that the moths were taken on September 

 ist flying about dusk within a short distance of the ground. He 

 took them in the highland meadow near the banks of the Lyell 

 fork of the Tuolumne River. 



The species is different from any known to me either autopti- 

 cally or by description. I am unacquainted with the Plepialus 

 californicus of Boisduval; but his short description cannot be 

 made to apply to this form. Boisduval says of calif ornicus : 

 " Elle a le port et la taille de la carmis des Alps. Ses ailes su- 

 perieures d'un grisatre obscure offrent a un certain jour, vers 

 1'extremite, des raies blanchatres parallales renfermant des petites 

 taches arronclies d'une couleur plus obscure. Les ailes intcri- 

 eures sout d'un i>ris noiratre. ' 



