196 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 



purple, tipped with silvery gray. The fascia, costal and dorsal streaks and 

 apical spot are brilliant silvery ; the fascia is not constricted on the fold 

 and the streaks are placed as in the other species; the costal spot is small 

 and the dorsal large and almost an exact triangle, being, however, a little 

 wider on the base and the margins very faintly concave. Hind wings 

 and cilige pale purplish fuscous. 



It thus differs from ampelopsiella in having the tips of the antennae 

 white and in other minute particulars. The case in which it pupates is 

 elongate and narrow, a long elipse ; that of ampelopsidla is a short and 

 wider elipse, that of viticordifoliella is nearly oval, that of Isabella a very 

 wide oval, almost circular, and that of cornifoliella is smaller than that 

 of Isabella, though resembling it more in shape than that of viticordi- 

 foliella, which is nearer to it m size. That of nysscefoliella I have not 

 seen. It requires careful observation to distinguish the species. They 

 are more readily distinguished by their cases than by the markings of the 

 imago. Hydrangeaella and ampelopsidla may be distinguished at once 

 from the others by the possession of the apical spot, but they require close 

 observation to distinguish them from each other. So likewise do Isabella, 

 nyssmfoliella, cornifoliella and viticordifoliella. Cornifoliella and Isabella 

 are, however, of a duller, darker brown than the other two, and viticordi- 

 foliella likewise has white annulations towards the tips of the antennae. 



I have not seen any of the European species, but comparing our 

 species with the figures of Pfeifferella and Treitschkiella in Nat. His. Tin., 

 vii., the latter are much paler or lighter in color than our species. 



NOTES ON NOCTUID^. 



BY A. R. GROTE, 



Director of the Museum, Buffalo Society Natural Sciences. 



Chytonix palliatricula. 



This species has the thoracic vestiture mixed with hair-like scales, and 

 it agrees in all respects with C. iaspis as to structure and pattern of orna- 

 mentation. It differs from Bryophila lepidula in these respects and in that 

 the abdomen is more strongly tufted. I have taken all these species in 

 June and July in the vicinity of Buffalo. 



