THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. *23l 



to report that the members are beginning their collections with renewed 

 vigor ; and they trust that the next year's operations Avill show a great 

 advance in the study of our fascinating science in Montreal. 



The whole respectfully submitted. 



Geo. J no. Bowles, President. 



Montreal, 3rd June, 1879. 



THE SPECIES OF EROTYLA, SPRAGUEIA, FRUVA, XAN- 

 THOPTERA, EXYRA AND PROTHYMIA. 



BY A. R. GROTE, 



Director of the Museum, Buffalo Society Natural Sciences. 



Erotyla sulphuralis Linn. 



The neuration of this European species is as follows : Fore wings 

 12-veined, 8 out of 7 well beyond the extremity of the accessory cell, 9 

 out of 8, a comparatively short furcation to costa. Hind wings 8-veined, 

 5 weaker than the rest, joined to the weak cross-vein which closes the 

 cell ; this latter is comparatively shorter than in Spragueia, veins 3 and 4 

 longer. 



Spragueia leo Guen. = onagrus H.-S. (nee Guen.) fig. 209. 



Fore wings 12-veined, 8 and 7 together from the extremity of the 

 accessory cell, 9 out of 8, a long furcation to costa. Hind wings 7-veined. 



This North American species is the type of the genus Spragueia. I 

 collected leo in Alabama. The fore wings have the costa striped with 

 sulphur yellow to apical fourth, the costa beyond is orange to apices and 

 there is an orange terminal band. A sulphur yellow stripe runs from base 

 outwardly along sub-median interspace. The rest of the wing is blackish 

 plumbeous, the central dark portion divided into three spots by two 

 transverse orange lines which intersect the narrower dark space along 

 internal margin as well. Fringes blackish except at anal angle, where 

 they are orange. Three dark costal marks, the first two surmounting the 

 two transverse orange lines, the outer of which latter tends to be broken 

 and angulate on the median vein. 



