84 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Orthosia helva. N. sp. 



J , $ . A large and common species from the Eastern slope, of which 

 I have seen many specimens. It is possibly not described here for the 

 first time, but I can find no name for it. The eyes are naked, with 

 lashes ; tibiae unarmed ; abdomen conical. The size is large, Hadena- 

 like. Fore wings dark yellow, with the lines reddish brown, obsoletely 

 and widely geminate, distinct ; t. a. waved, inner line incomplete. Orbi- 

 cular concolorous, brown ringed, sub-ovate ; reniform large, illy defined 

 with a prominent inferior blackish stain ; median shade well marked, 

 nervulous. T. p. line with the inner line fine, dentate, the outer line 

 continued as a series of black nervular points. Subterminal line broken, 

 with a darker costal preceding shade. Fringes darker than the wing, cut 

 with pale. Hind wings fuscous, with yellow fringes. Abdomen mostly 

 dark yellow, with plumose side and anal tufts in the $ , and with a feeble 

 basal tuft. Expanse 40 m. m. 



I refer this species to Orthosia rather than Efadena, from the lashed 

 eyes. It is larger than, but resembles O. ferruglneoides. 



Glcea venustula. N". sp. 



A species distinguishable by the nervules, vein 1, and the median vein 

 being finely and continuously marked with pale. The color is a light 

 drab brown, costal and internal edges of the primaries and the edges of 

 the collar pale. Transverse lines pale ; t. a. line rounded with a dark 

 succeeding shade. Stigmata concolorous, distinctly pale ringed ; orbicu- 

 lar oblique, irregular, narrowed ; reniform somewhat pyriform, narrowing 

 inferiorly ; s. t. line of the usual shape, pale, with preceding dark shade, 

 distinct. Terminal line black, incomplete ; fringes concolorous. Hind 

 wings blackish fuscous, with ruddy fringes. Beneath pale reddish, fuscous 

 on the disc of primaries ; hind wings feebly irrorate, with a line and 

 discal spot. Expanse 42 m. m. Hab. Maryland (Lintner). 



The genera Orthosia and Glcea (= Cerastis) are regarded as nearly 

 allied by Lederer and Herrich-SchaerTer. My Ghea apiata is cited as 

 " Orthosia! apiata" by Mr. Morrison (this vol., p. 16) ; the exclamation 

 mark is superfluous, as I had already correctly referred the moth, and the 

 latest work of an author, replacing a former one, is the one to be criti- 

 cized. Mr. Morrison says of the species of Glcea, that the claviform spot 

 " seems to ba nearly always (?) present in this genus, although not 

 mentioned in Mr. Grote's descriptions." As constituted by myself (Bui. 



