THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



its varial^ility, the ])liiisli-gray shining fore wings l)eing variously deep in 

 color and intruded on by the brown shadings, but on account of its wide 

 habitat. It is migratory, ascending the coast to Maine. 1 have taken it 

 on Staten Island in October. Mr. Thaxter took it in Jamaica, W. I. It 

 is found along the Gulf Coast. It is No. 478 of the " New Check List." 



Its natural history will probably be found to run parallel with other 

 immigrants from the South. 



Carneadks, n. gen. 



Like Agrotis, but with a navel-shaped tubercle on the clypeus. Tibiae 

 armed. Eyes naked. Body untufted. Vestiture hairy. Male antennae 

 sub-simple, ciliate. Size moderate, like Agrotis campcstris. 



Carneades Moerens, n, s. 



^ . Of a faded rusty yellowish fuscous. Lines fuscous, double, rather 

 indistinct, scalloped. Stigmata concolorous, the orbicular round, with 

 central dark dot. The reniform indistinct, with an inferior stain. Ter- 

 minal space a little darker than the wing. Collar with a faint line. Thorax 

 like fore wings. The untufted abdomen yellowish. Hind wings pale, with 

 diffuse pale fuscous subterminal shading ; a mesial line. Beneath pale, 

 with common ftiint line and rather long discal streaks. Arizona. Coll. 

 B. Neumoegen. Esq. 



Anarta Submarina, n. s. 



Body untufted. Eyes hairy. Apices of primaries sharp. Tibiae 

 unarmed. Fore wings pale olivaceous gray. Lines marked doubly in 

 black on costa, but else single, approaching inferiorly ; t. a. forming three 

 curves : t. p. dentate. Median shade visible. Stigmata lost. S. t. line 

 obsolete. A very indistinct terminal series of dots. Fringes somewhat 

 fuscous, cut with pale. Hind wings dark, fuscous or blackish, a little 

 paler at base ; a mesial line. Head and thorax like fore wings. Beneath 

 whitish with a distinct, extra discal, common line, outside of which is a 

 diffuse subterminal shading continued on both wings. A discal lunule on 

 primaries, wanting, or with hardly a trace of it, on hind wings. Montana. 

 Four specimens. Coll. B. Neumoegen, Esq. 



The cut of the wings is different from the other species, costa straight ; 

 but it may be placed here for the present. 



Rholxjsea, n. g. 



Looks X\\& HeHophila,'^\X\it^\.Q Rhodophora. Wings entire, wide, costa 

 straight, internal margin parallel, outer margin oblique. Eyes naked, un- 



