THE CA.NAI)IAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 213 



NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY WILLIAM BARNES, S.B., M.D., DECATUR, ILL. 



(Continued from page 196.) 

 Stiria aliaga, n. sp. — ^t; . Expanse, 30 mm. 



Ground colour even chrome-yellow, a shade lighter beyond t. p, line. 

 Small ochraceous spot at inner third of cell, one towards its outer end and 

 traces of one beyond. These are about equidistant from each other. 

 T. p. line the only other marking on fore wing. This is quite faint, 

 ochraceous, wavy and cannot be followed to costa in the specimens before 

 ine. The fringe is darker than wing, of a somewhat " Ashes of Roses " 

 colour. The costa is lightly tinged with the same shade and the posterior 

 thoracic tufts and ends of patagia are likewise similarly coloured. The 

 fringe has a narrow ochraceous line at base and a slightly paler mesial 

 band. 



Hind wings pale yellowish-white, fringe concolorous, with faint basal, 

 slightly darker line. Beneath pale yellow. Fore wing from t. p. line to 

 base and hind wing along costa darker, being coated somewhat thickly with 

 chrome-yellow and reddish scales. Head and thorax pale brownish-yellow, 

 abdomen, palpi and legs somewhat darker. Front crater-like with central 

 protuberance. 



Female similar to male, but somewhat paler, more of a canary yellow. 

 The specimen is not so fresh as. the male, however, which may account for 

 the difference in colour. 



Types $ and ? . Pinal Co., Ariz. 

 Thalpochares Jativa, n. sp. — Expanse, 17 mm. 



Ground colour light red, with a decided pink tinge. Base of wing 

 yellowish-white, this extends from junction of costa and thorax obliquely 

 downward and outward to inner margin, about i^ mm. from thorax. 

 The lower and inner half of this on inner margin, next to body, is, how- 

 ever, of the ground colour. The only other marking on the wing is a Y- 

 shaped, yellowish-white band across middle of wing. The slightly ex- 

 panded base rests on middle of inner margin. The fork is in the middle 

 of the wing, the outer prong is slightly expan'ded on costa, while the inner 

 is somewhat narrower and shorter. The space between the prongs is 

 filled with the ground colour, though the edges are somewhat diffuse and 

 not so sharply defined as the outer margins of the Y. The prominence of 

 the mark is heightened by a slight intensification of the ground colour 

 along its margins. The fringe is of a somewhat purer pink tinge at base, 

 outwardly paler. 



June, 1905. 



