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THE SPECIES OF TORNOS, iMORR. 



BV RICHARD F. PEARSALL, EROOK*LYN, N. Y. 



In 1887 Dr. Hulst described (Ent. Amer., Vol. II, pp. 192 and 210) 

 five species under this genus, vis.: candidarius ; robigi?iosus, Mor., var. 

 cinctariiis ; rohiginosiis, Mor., var. abjectaritis ; dissociarhis^ and inco- 

 priarius. The first named is a Noctuid ; the second is a valid species j 

 the third has recently been placed as a synonym of scolopachiaria, Guen. , 

 in an article by Mr. J. A, Grossbeck (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. 32, p. 

 342), where it most assuredly belongs ; the fourth was made the type of 

 Holochroa, Hulst (Dyar, 3,821); and the fifth was in some strange manner 

 incorporated with Glaucina (Dyar, 3.820). In describing var, cinctarius^ 

 Dr. Hulst gives no alar expanse, no sex, nor locality. Three examples of 

 it have long been known to me, one in the Hulst coll. at N. B., the type, 

 so labelled, from Florida ; one in the Bklyn. Inst., through the Graef. 

 coll., from Georgia; and one taken by me at Orlando, Florida, iv, 3, 1899; 

 all females. At that time I was confident the species was entirely distinct, 

 and this view has since been expressed by Dr. Dyar (Proc. Ent. Soc. of 

 Wash., Vol. 6, p. 225), but I have waited several years to make certain of 

 it, by an examination of the male sex. Recently, through the kindness of 

 Mrs. A. T. Slosson, I was permitted to examine her Geometrid captures 

 in Florida, and among them were two femiales and one male of this species. 

 It is easily separated from scolopacinaria, which is also taken there, by its 

 large size, stouter form, broad wings, in colour a deep mahogany-red when 

 fresh, fading into a deep reddish-brown. With the black cross lines of 

 both wings sharply defined except the intradiscal on fore wings, which 

 after touching discal dot fades oat toward inner margin. The discal dots 

 on fore wings are two to three times larger, and the plumes with which 

 they are ornamented much longer, so that they wave about with the 

 slightest movement. The (^ antennae are heavier. The extradiscal line 

 is outwardly edged with a fine border of white scales. In my specimen 

 the basal and extradiscal curved lines on hind wings are both sharply 

 defined, and the large oval discal spot, not ornamented with plumes as on 

 fore wings, is pupilled with a few white scales. Expanse, 30 mm. 



Type : S ii^ the coll. of Mrs. A. T. Slosson. 



The above comparative description, amplifying that of Dr. Hulst, 

 applies to both sexes. 



The type of (Glaucina) incopriartus, Hulst, passed, with the 



Neumogen coll., to the Brooklyn Inst. It is nearly related to Deilifiea, 



April, 1908 



