128 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



"Two or three were in a later stage, having apparently moulted ahead 

 of ihe others. These showed a strongly-marked dorsal band of dull 

 orange. The hairs were of varying lengths, not of the close-cropped form 

 of the previous stage, and more radiating from the warts in appearance. 

 The hairs on dorsal surface were blacker than in previous stage, those 

 towards venter more foxy. Feet and claspers light brown." 



Towards the end of May, 1910, Mr. Lyman wrote saying that he had 

 succeeded in carrying some of the larvae over the winter, from which he 

 obtained five of the moths. When the larvae came out of hibernation, 

 Mr. Lyman offered them everything he could think of in the way of 

 fodder, but this they refused, and spun up very soon. 



All of the specimens of this moth which I have seen (about 25, 

 including 10 which I reared) are similar in appearance, excepting that the 

 females are darker and smaller, 30-32 mm. in expanse (the males being 

 33-38 mm. in expanse). The figure accompanying Mrs. Slosson's 

 original description"^ is very good, but the band on the secondaries in all 

 of the specimens before me (11 males and 3 females) is marginal, not 

 submarginal as in the description, with the exception of one male, in which 

 the band is nearly wholly marginal. This band, too, is much wider in our 

 specimens than in the figure above referred to. 



I have never seen tyj^ical Phragmatobia assimilatis from Canada, all 

 of the specimens examined by me being the form known as the variety 

 franconia. 



Distribution in Canada. — In addition to the specimens reared from 

 larvse received from Hymers, Ont., and adults taken there by Mr. Dawson, 

 the writer has records of specimens collected at Sudbury, Ont. (J. D. 

 Evans); Ottawa, June 3 (A. Gibson); Ottawa, May 24 (x\. Nicholls) ; 

 Montmorency Falls, Que., June 14 (A. R. M. Boulton) ; Lake Beauport, 

 Que., June 23 (A. R. M. BouUon) ; Meach Lake, Que., ^L^y 16, 17 (C. 

 H. Young). 



FOUR NEW SPECIES OF ASILID.L:. 



BY NATHAN BANKS, EAST FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINL^. 



Ommatius maculatus^ n. sp. 



Face with white pubescence and long white hair below, dense white 

 hair behind mouth-parts ; antenna all blackish ; thorax black, shining, a 

 grayish-white stripe each side, wider at ends, a cross-mark from middle of 

 each stiipe to the margin, and the lower lateral margins grayish-white, so 



*Entomological News, March, 1891. 

 April, 1911 



