178 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOCIST. 



ai)pearance of a series of brownish spots. The hind margin, which is 

 somewhat dentated and enlarged at anal angle, has a very irregular and 

 jagged hne of light brown, forming a series of interspacial light brown 

 spots, extending from anal angle to upper angle. 



Under side of fore wing brown, somewhat lighter than upper surface, 

 and with less lustre. The white spots are repeated, showing more trans- 

 ])arency. The lower submedian interspace and the inner marginal area 

 are ligliter than the ground colour. 



Under side of hind wing brown, a shade darker than fore wing. The 

 while and brown markings of upper surface are repealed, but are all white. 

 'Hie hind margin has a slight whitish line. 



Variations. — In some specimens the light brown marginal border or 

 series of interspacial spots noted on upper surface of hind wing is 

 continued upwards across marginal area of fore wing, but it is so variable 

 in its definiteness that it may be considered a distinct band in some 

 specimens, or a mere suffusion in others. The small discoidal spot of fore 

 wing is often joined to the larger one in the discoidal space. 



Taken in January, 1900. 



. SELIDOSEMA UiMBROSARIUM, HUBNER. 



BY RICHARD F. PEARSALL, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 



In a recent paper on the " Lepidoptera of the Kootenai District'" 

 (page 910), Dr. H. G. Dyar remarks of this species: "No specimens; 

 one from Mr. Cockle's collection. The specimen agrees with two in the 

 National Museum, bearing Dr. Packard's original labels, ^ Boai-mia 

 indicataria, Comp., Walker's type,' and ^ Boarmia wnhrosaria, Hbn., B. 

 gnophosaria^ Gn ,' the specimens originally coming from the Meske and 

 Riley collections. They are males, and show a hair pencil on the hind 

 tibiae, so I transfer iiinbrosaria to Cleora, following Hulst's separation of 

 Cleora and Selidosemay 



In this conclusion I cannot concur, having raised from larvie, when in 

 Florida, one male and three females of this species, the male having 710 hair 

 pencil, and an exact counterpart of Packard's figure of the type (Mono. 

 Geom., Plate XI, fig. 23), which came from Demopolis, Ala. When at Cam- 

 bridge I examined this type, which proved that it was correctly placed in 

 Selidosema. With it under this name were perhaps twenty specimens, six 

 of which were the true umbrosariu7n^ the rest being a species I take 

 frequently in the Catskill Mts., belonging in the genus Cleora, and at that 

 time without name in my collection. On my return home I sent one of 



May, 1906. 



