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VOL. XXVII. LONDON, MARCH, 1895. No. 3. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF EPIPASCHIIN^ 



AND PHYCITID^. 



by rev. geo. 1). hulst, brooklyn, n. y. 



Epipaschiin.1^. 



Oneida hiniferella, n. sp. — Tongue blackish with some light 

 gray scales ; labial palpi and face light gray ; antennae blackish 

 gray ; antennal projection light gray at base, becoming blackish gray 

 towards summit ; thorax gray, patagia lighter, becoming nearly white 

 posteriorly ; abdomen gray with black scales intermixed, somewhat 

 washed with fuscous, and often stained with yellowish. Fore wings 

 light gray at base to raised scale ridge immediately before the 

 first cross-line ; this line is white, rounded from costa to median 

 vein, and thence to inner margin, edged on both sides with 

 black and preceded by a scale ridge which is reddish brown in 

 colour ; middle field light gray, glistening, slightly powdered with 

 blackish scales, this colour reaching to outer margin posterior to 

 vein 5 ; near middle of field and between vein i and median vein 

 a raised scale tuft, blackish. Outer line distinct at costa, whitish, 

 becoming lost in the ground colour behind vein 5 ; this line is 

 with a deep inward sinus from costa to about vein 5, forming a 

 sort of lunule, which is edged on both sides with black ; the inner 

 edging is broader posteriorly, and there somewhat washed with 

 reddish ; the outer, broad, nearly filling the apical space, washed with 

 reddish posteriorly ; a marginal line of black dots. Hind wings 

 glistening translucent whitish fuscous, with a faint yellowish stain. 

 Beneath fore wings fuscous to outer line, that being fainter than 

 above ; apical space reddish. Hind wings slightly more fuscous and 

 duller than above. Expands 28 mm. 



Colorado. Six examples from Mr. David Bruce. 



Benta Slossonii, n. sp. — Expands 25 mm. Palpi and face dark 

 fuscous ; antennie blackish fuscous ; thorax blackish, mixed somewhat 

 with gray scales ; abdomen dark fuscous, almost black, each seg- 



