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Mr. Kyle, of Dundas, stated that he had found polyphemus feeding on 

 witch hazel (Hama?nelis virginica), and promethea feeding on ash and lilac. 



Mr. Moffat had found p7-omethca also on wild cherry, as well as on 

 ash, sassafras and lilac. 



NEW SPECIES OF N. AM. MOTHS. 



BY A. R. GROTE. 



Trochiliutn lustrans, n. s. 



Larger than tipuliformis, with long black antennae, which are whitish 

 before the tips. Abdomen black with six yellow bands, the two terminal 

 ones broader than the rest and continued beneath. Anal tuft black and 

 yellow. Legs yellow, marked on tibiae and femora with black. Thorax 

 black with yellow inner edge to the tegulae. Head black with a yellow 

 ring behind and yellowish -stripe on each side of the clypeus. Palpi yel- 

 low. Thorax yellowish beneath. Wings pellucid ; primaries with black 

 bar and black fringes and terminal border ; beneath the costa of primaries 

 to the transverse bar is yellow ; costa of secondaries yellow. Expanse 

 23 mil. Length of body 12 mil. Dayton, O., Mr. G. R. Pilate. Seems 

 to differ from any of the yellow and black species by the white portion of 

 the antennae. 



Euhalisidota longa, n. s. 



£ °. . Size of E. fasciata from Cuba, but without the band on $ 

 secondaries. Differs from htxa by its slighter build, undotted thorax, a 

 dark streak on primaries at extremity of median vein following along vein 

 5. Yellowish clay color, somewhat dusky about thorax and head. Fore 

 tibiae orange shaded inwardly. Fore wings irrorate with brown speckles. 

 A subterminal row of interspaceal brown dots preceded on the interspace 

 above vein 5 by a brown mark. Vein 5 at base shaded with purply 

 brown. Hind wings immaculate ; a brown dot at apices beneath. Length 

 of primary 25 mil. Enterprise, Fla., Mr. Schwarz ; Fla., Mr. Drury. I 

 have alluded to this species in Can. Ent. as allied to the forms described 

 by me in 1865 from Cuba. 



