174 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



ON FOUR NEW CALIFORNIAN HEPIALI. 



BY JAMES BEHRENS, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



The species described in this paper are from Mendocino. The genus 

 seems to be more numerously represented on the West than on the East 

 Coast of North America. Some of the new forms resemble the European. 

 To none of these species can I refer Dr. Boisduval's descriptions of 

 hectoides or calif ornicus. 



Hepialus sequoiolus, n. s. 



Three specimens. Primaries light brown with five darker, black mar- 

 gined, interrupted bands marked on costa by separated spots, the fourth, 

 just before apex, slightly furcate. The terminal or outer band is extended 

 along the veins to the outer margin, interspaceally lunate. From the 

 median fold to internal margin the first band is composed of silvery white 

 united spots, preceding the second band, which is powdered with black 

 and shows inwardly an ochre line. Between the third and fourth bands 

 below vein 5 to internal margin, runs a similar white and narrower band. 

 There is a basal white dash, above which a blackish shading. Hind 

 wings blackish, with fringes and costal margin marked with brown. Be- 

 neath the fore wings are marked with pale brown on costa and reflect 

 partially the bands of upper surface. Thorax camel's hair brown, with 

 the abdomen perhaps paler. Expanse 37 to 40 mil. 



A single specimen differs by its increased size and the absence of the 

 white bands ; else, while paler colored, it seems to agree. I am undecided 

 about the value of this form at the present writing. 



Hepialus mendocinolus, n. s. 



Five specimens. Allied to the preceding and to ganna of Europe, but 

 tinged with reddish and more unicolorous and smaller. The darker bands 

 are obsolete in three specimens. In ganna the white bands are often 

 connected and the outer one runs from the apex. In this species the white 

 bands are more oblique, parallel, and obtain over the primaries below the 

 cell. A white dash at base connected with the first white band. The 

 brown of the thorax shows a pink tinge and the blackish hind wings are 

 pinkish on the fringes. Expanse 32 to 35 mil. 



