76 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



In the season of 1873 I received from a friend eight of the supposed 



£ larvas fully grown, taken on Sweetwater Grape. As I previously had 



reason to doubt the correctness of the theory that all with the uniform 



brown mottling were of one sex, I watched with considerable interest the 



next years development. 



May 1 6th, there appeared in the breeding box one $, one °. 

 imagines ; the 18th, another $ emerged, and the next day another £. 



Being absent for some time afterward, I made no note of the 

 remainder of the brood, nor do I now recollect if any more were dis- 

 closed. 



None of these larvae had any appearance of the green markings, nor 

 have I ever seen any captured here which had, but have seen such in 

 Massachusetts and New Jersey. 



Lerema Loammi, nov. sp. 



$ . Expands r ft in. Wings above dark glossy brown, darker 

 basally. Cilia? light brown, with a blackish line at extreme base. Prim- 

 aries with a subcostal transverse row of quadrate whitish spots, situate one 

 in each of the three terminal subcostal interspaces near its base; the 

 upper one one-half its length nearer apex. A larger sub-quadrate spot 

 crossing second median interspace at one-third the distance from its base. 

 An obsolescent transverse line in lower median interspace, equidistant 

 between its base and spot in second interspace. A narrow black sexual 

 bar broken by first median nervule ; the upper portion straight, com. 

 mencing at second divarication of median nervure and crossing the inter- 

 space to first median nervule near its source. The lower portion of the 

 bar commences below the nervule about its own width removed out- 

 wardly, is strongly concave within, and reaches submedian nervure about 

 two-fifths its distance from base. Secondaries immaculate. 



Beneath dark chestnut brown. Apex of primaries and border of 

 secondaries with a bloom of pearly scales. Primaries with upper mark- 

 ings repeated and two minute dots in subcosto-median interspace, resting 

 one on each nervule ; one in first median interspace and a transverse line 

 in third. These five (including one in second interspace repeated above) 

 are in a line from apex to middle of internal margin. 



Secondaries with a curved sub-basal row of three small irregular white 

 spots. The first is in the costo-subcostal interspace one-fourth the 

 distance from its base ; the second in the subcosto-median interspace, and 



