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palpi and a few scales upon the outside of the middle joint dark grey. 

 Eyes black, vertex light sulphur-yellow to straw-yellow, antennae dark 

 brown annulated with whitish. Thorax above white with a few scattered 

 grey scales ; beneath silvery white. Abdomen above light brown with a 

 silvery lustre, lighter at the end of each segment ; beneath lighter ; last 

 segment in the females darker brown above and beneath, and without the 

 silvery lustre. Anal tuft in the males light straw-color. Fore and middle 

 legs light brown, femora and tibia of hind legs white, tarsi of all the legs 

 brown ringed with white. Fore wings ferruginous brown, the extreme 

 costal edge from base to near the apex dark brown. A number of small 

 white spots rest upon the costa, four pairs beyond the middle, from all of 

 which stripes composed of white and leaden-hued scales extend more or 

 less irregularly across the wing at nearly right angles with the costa, and 

 having something of a wavy appearance in some specimens, with some 

 indication of a basal patch, a central and subterminal bands composed of 

 the leaden and white scales. Fringes light brown above and beneath ; 

 fore wings light brown beneath, ferruginous apically, with the white spots 

 of the costa well indicated. Hind wings above and beneath greyish brown 

 with a tinge of ferruginous in some specimens, and with darker irrorations 

 on the costa and outwardly ; fringes long at the anal angle, somewhat 

 lighter and with a darker line near the base. 



Expanse — £ , 18-20 m. m. • °. , 18-20 m. m. 



Habitat — Ithaca, N. Y. 



Described from two males and three females received from Prof. J. 

 Henry Comstock, who " found the larvae boring in branches of Pinus 

 rigido at Ithaca," and to whom I dedicate this species. 



I have provisionally referred this species to the genus Retinia, for, 

 although it agrees with the definition of the genus as given by Heinemann 

 in other respects, the venation of the fore wing differs in the origin of veins 

 four and five, which are not from the same point, but a little remote from 

 each other ; the distance between veins five and six at their origin is 

 about twice the distance between veins four and five. 



The Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario will be 

 held in the rooms of the Natural History Society, in Ottawa, on Tuesday, 

 the 23rd of September, at 4 p.m. 



