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VOL. VII. LONDON, ONT., DECEMBER, 1875. No. 12 



LEPIDOPTEROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



BY A. R. GROTE, A. M., BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Director of the Museum, Buffalo Society Natural Sciences. 



Nola ovilla, n. s. 



$. A small frail form with ciliate antennae, no ocelli, and long, 

 dependent palpi, their second joint thickly squamous. Fore wings 

 grayish white, with the inner line black, fine, angulated. Outer line 

 denticulate, followed by a pure white shade. A pure white shade in the 

 place of the subterminal. Hind wings dusty white. Beneath the fore 

 wings are pale fuscous, immaculate ; hind wings whitish with a discal dot. 

 Expanse 1 6 m. m. Canada, Mr. Saunders. This species differs decidedly 

 from the N. Am. species described by Prof. Zeller; I do not find 

 descriptions of N. Am. species in any other author. 



Dilophonota meriance Grote. 



According to my correspondent, Mr. Meske, this species, formerly 

 known from Cuba and Mexico, has been found in Texas by a collector 

 and examples reared from larvae. It must therefore be included in the 

 List of our Sphingidae. 



Apatela tritona (Hiibn.) Zutr., 107, 108. 



Hiibners figure has the t. p. line more irregular and the hind wings 

 more yellowish than the form we consider as intended. A. grisea, differs 

 by the white hind wings, and is, perhaps, redescribed as pudorata by Mr. 

 Morrison in the Annals of the N. Y. Lyceum. No comparison with 

 grisea is made of his new species by Mr. Morrison. Specimens of tritona 

 show the stigmata, and the inner edge of the reniform is perhaps included 

 with the median shade in Hiibners figure. It is on a line with it in the 

 specimens, which have also the small orbicular very faintly outlined and 

 which latter may be indicated by the two dots in Hiibners figure. On 

 the whole, I cannot see that Guenee's description of tritona differs from 



