X*) THB CANADIAN BNTOMOUtOIBT. 



Secondaries pale lemon-yellow, wiih a short discal spot and a very 

 broad blackish outer border. A fine yellow terminal line, followed by 

 a blackish line at base of the yellow fringes, which are cut with blackish 

 opposite veins, lieneath ochreous, densely shaded wiih fuscous, darkest 

 in subterminal space, with terminal and subapical shades of olivaceous 

 brown. The sign is reproduced in pale lemon yellow. A small dark 

 dibcal spot on secondaries. 



Expanse, 35 mm. = i-'a inches. 



One perfect male, HanflT, Aha., June loth, 19 10, "Imperial Bank," 

 N. B. Sanson. Presented by him to the U. S. National Museum. 



The specimen was captured, probably at light, at a low level, about 

 4.600 ft., and was received as No. 159, amongst some other specimens for 

 naming. Sir George Hampson has seen it, and says that it has no nearer 

 relation in the Old World than /'. Hochenwarthi Hoch., from which it is 

 very distinct. 



In pattern of |)rimaries it closely resembles rubidus Olt., in which the 

 sij^n varies to almost exactly the sign here described. It agrees in wing 

 form. In colour Sansoni is far richer, with stronger contrasts. The lines 

 are less oblique, and though the t a. is rather more curved, the t. p. is 

 more direct, and is distinct throughout its length. The orbicular is smaller 

 and narrower. The patch below the sign, which is pale fulvous in Sansoni, 

 is greenish-golden in rubidus. In the secondaries it differs still more 

 strikingly from rubidus, in having them of the pale lemon-yellow of 

 oiophila Hamps. and diasema Hdv., but with cleaner base and still broader 

 black border than any of my sjiecimens of these. It in no way resembles 

 either of them as to primaries. 



The species falls in Autogmpha Hubn.,as characterized by Dr. Dyar 

 in Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, X, 80, 1902 ; and like rubidus, which I con- 

 sider its nearest ally, has not spined tibiae. In all the other yellow- 

 underwingcd Plusiids known to me the hind tibiae are strongly spined, 

 and tibial spines exist also in several other species at present standing 

 under Autographa. 



During a fortnight's vacation spent at Fortune's Rocks, near Bidde- 

 ford, Maine, at beginning of July, the following species of Lepidoptera 

 were attracted to lights on the liotel gallery : Smerintlius cerysii, Lapara 

 bombycoides, Apantesis virguncuia, Fagitana Itttrra, Cap is curvata, 

 Datana major, Cochlidion biguttata, Caripeta augusttorata. A couple 

 of specimens of Ifemaris gracilis were taken at the flowers of the Sheep- 

 laurel { Kalmia angustifotia). — A. K. Winn, Westmount, Que. 



