THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 165 



NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



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



In order to avoid needless repetition, I wish here to express my 

 sincere thanks to Prof. John B. Smith and Dr. H. G. Dyar for numerous 

 favours, and also to Mr. O. C Poling for his great liberality in furnishing 

 me with many of the species here described. Mr. Poling has made a 

 number of collecting trips to little known parts of Arizona and Utah, and 

 in addition to many new species has turned up many rare forms 

 discovered years ago by Morrison and Doll. The fauna of Southern 

 Arizona is essentially Mexican, and as there is at present no collection of 

 Mexican Lepidoptera in this country worth mentioning, one in describing 

 apparently new species from that region is certain to make synonyms. 

 The probabilities are that within a few years one of the best if not the best 

 Mexican collection in the world will be in Washington, then we shall have 

 some foundation to build on, and will not have to waste time and burden 

 our catalogue with a lot of names to be later relegated to the synonym 

 list. 



Syntomeida Hampsonii, n. sp. — Resembles yW^?, Druce, Biol. Centr. 

 Am. Het., II., p. 333, pi. 71, f. 15 (1897); Hampson, Catalogue Lep. 

 Phalfense, Vol. I., p. 305. Head and thorax blue-black. Tegulas and 

 patagia orange-yellow, edged with black. Fore coxse whitish on inside, 

 yellowish outwardly, fore tibite yellowish inwardly, hind tarsi more or less 

 whitish, palpi yellow, tipped with black, tongue yellow. Antennte black, 

 with more or less whitish towards tip. Abdomen black, with metallic 

 blue scales on dorsum and sides, dorsal yellow spots on first, subdorsal on 

 remaining segments. Anal tuft yellow above, black at sides and tip. 

 Ventral valve yellow, edged with black. Abdomen beneath with yellow 

 bands. Wings black, somewhat bluish metallic along costa, especially of 

 males. A large orange-yellow spot in and below cell on fore wings and 

 one midway between it and apex. Hind wings white or somewhat 

 yellowish white at base, and a large orange-yellow spot beyond cell. 



Types : several specimens collected by Mr. Poling in Southern 

 Arizona. Aside from many minor differences, this species may readily be 

 separated ixoxci joda by the presence of orange subdorsal yellow patches 

 on all the abdominal segments, while m joda they are confined to the first, 

 fourth and fifth, . , 



