Id ■rilK CANAUIAN KNT* t.Mdl.i )i ITS'I', 



rounded. Inner line preceded l)y yellowish white shading, bent on disk. 

 Fringe checkered. Hind wings 1 irown with k-ad colored powdering. Fringe 

 marked with dark at end of veins. Ik-neath pale brown, reflecting mark- 

 ings. I'wo specimens. Mr. Neumoegen's collection. North Carolina. 

 Expanse 35 mil. 



ONCOCNK.MIS CURVICOl.LIS, n. s. 



^ % . Eyes naked. Tibiae with a claw on front pair. Body rather 

 slender. Light gray. Collar a little cut out behind, and projected in 

 front. (This latter character is sometimes accidentally caused ; in C. 

 Occata I was misled by it to refer the species to C/fop/ia/ia.) No lines. 

 Transverse lines marked on costa. ()rl)icular with dark gray centre, finely 

 annulate within with pale. 'J'he wings show longitudinal light and dark 

 marks. Hind wings whitish in male, with improminent smoky borders in 

 the female, not as dark as Major, to which this is allied. Hind wings 

 dark in the female. Thorax dark gray. Stigmata much as in Major : in 

 one specimen the claviform contrasts by its jjallor. The orl)icular seems 

 less sharp. 'I'his species seems to differ by the collar being more cut out, 

 the slenderer body, want of any determinate subterminal markings. (7. 

 Curvicollii is before me in three specimens from Arizona expanding 34 mil. 



Neither Atricollaris nor its ally, Gr'nricol/is. have the collar excavate; 

 Copihadt'iia has no character that 1 can see. Neither has Afcfa/uu/ciuu 

 which, if the front lihicC are really armed, as now stated by Mr. Smith, 

 must be referred to Oncocnoii/s. While Cibal/s and GraciUiiiia 

 are allied in marking, Cnr^'ico/lis belongs to the series of C/iaiid/rri, 

 Riparia. Major and .h/ual/s. Pcniotala Cr. shows a faiiU resemblance 

 to the Fkiro])ean Campicola. I'he gtmis is fairly numerous in species; I 

 should be glad to divide it, but I cannot see on what grounds either of Mr. 

 Morrison's genera are to stand. 1 relied on Mr. Morrison's diagnosis that 

 the tibia; were unarmed in referring Afri/asc/ata to Hoiiiohadcua. There 

 is no longer any doubt that Riparia is not a variety of Cliaiui^ 

 leri, as which Mr. Morrison described it. We have now three F^astern 

 Oficociu'iiiis : Riparia, Saiiiidcrsiaiia and Atrofasciata. besides the Texan 

 Occata. In all we have 24 species so far described. Most of the types 

 are in the collections of Messrs. Neumoegen, Tepi)er and Graef. I feel 

 some doubt about the distinctness of Major and CKrvicollis . the latter is 

 slighter and paler, even less distinctly marked subterminally, and the collar 

 is more excavate. Aqua/is, from California, is also near to these. MeaiU- 



