156 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



^ . — Body black, thickly punctured. Mouth bearded with white ; 

 mandibles carinated above, armed with two strong terminal teeth ; nose 

 square, flat, clothed with decumbent silver pile ; antennae filiform ; scape 

 black; the other joints are rufo-piceo.us underneath ; trunk very hirsute 

 with white or subcinereous hairs ; wings a little embrowned, with black 

 veins and base-covers ; legs hairy ; abdomen subcylindrical, hirsute with 

 black hairs, incurved with the apex of the four intermediate segments 

 fringed with white hairs ; anal joint with a concavity above, obtuse ; last 

 ventral segment forcipate, rufo-piceous 



NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY A. R. GROTE, 



Director of the Museum, Buffalo Society Natural Sciences. 



Scopelosoma tr/siigtnata, n. s. 



This form, or species, belongs to the series of Walker! and vinulenta, 

 of the former of which I was at first disposed to consider it a variety. It 

 is distinguished by the presence of all three of the ordinary spots. Rusty 

 ochre ; t. a. line single, even, blackish with the small rusty outlined clavi- 

 form attached. Orbicular rusty-ringed, with pale centre, small. Reniform 

 pale ochre, rusty-ringed, well sized, of the ordinary shape, with a black 

 inferior stain. Median shade a little waved, joining the reniform above 

 and issuing from it inferiorly. T. p. line much as in Walkeri, with the 

 three black streaks on the median nervules unusually distinct. S. t. line 

 margined before with a fuscous shade, pale, irregular ; terminal space 

 contrasting, fuscous, with the veins black-marked. Fringes ochreous. 

 Hind wings blackish fuscous, with ochrey fringe. Head and thorax rusty 

 ochre ; antennee paler at base ; abdomen fuscous, rusty ochre at sides and 

 tip and beneath. Wings ochreous beneath, with common shade band, 

 flexed on hind wings, w^hich show a discal mark. Expanse 35 mil. New- 

 tonxille, Mass., No. 8, April 23, Mr. Roland Thaxter. 



