%\t dfenafttan Entomologist. 



VOL. XII. LONDON, ONT., MARCH, 1880. No. 3 



ALYPIA MACCULLOCHII, Kirby. 



BY WILLIAM COUPER, MONTREAL, P. Q. 



On plate iv. of the " Fauna Boreali- Americana," Kirby gives a figure 

 of the $ of the above species. In June, 1878, while collecting at the 

 Godbout River, Lower St. Lawrence, I captured two males of this species, 

 both on the same day. While Alypia Langtonii, Couper, were abundant 

 in the same locality, no other specimens of A. MacCullochii were seen. 

 I visited the place daily for a month in order to procure the female, but 

 no more of either sex of the latter appeared. I therefore conclude it is 

 a rare species on that coast. I am not aware that the male of A. Mac- 

 Cullochii has been hitherto described, and as it differs in some respects 

 from Kirby's description of the female, it may be interesting to the readers 

 of the Canadian Entomologist. 



Alypia MacCullochii $. 



Fig. 7— Upper Side. Fig. 8 — Under Side 



Expansion of wings i inch. Wings and body black. Antennas with 

 numerous white rings, and gradually clubbed towards the apex. Orbit of 

 eyes externally clothed with pale yellow hairs ; four spots of same colored 

 hairs on anterior portion of thorax, and a tuft of longer yellow hairs at 

 base of primary wings. Legs mottled with white and yellow hairs. Pri- 

 mary wings with two, sometimes three spots in some specimens ; the one 

 near the base is cream-colored, divided longitudinally by a black line 

 slightly forked where it approaches a small cream-colored spot which 

 curves from the upper outside edge. The second is a transverse large 

 white spot, traversed by five black lines dividing it into five, sometimes 



