14 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



pieces. It should be considered as the type of Hubners genus ^z^mj-, a 

 name which has priority over Aphxta, and is cast for the same species^ 

 most of which, as Lederer has shown, are not properly separable from 

 Mamcstra. Polyphaenis seems to me equally valid with Eurois ; I am not 

 therefore agreed with v. Heineman's fusion of the species of the two 

 genera under the name of Apleda. The late Mr. Walsh has already 

 referred to this species as found in this country. The list of species- 

 common to both continents, given in the Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., vol. 3, p. 

 214, contains, however, several errors of different kinds, and is therefore 

 unreliable. 



Lupcrina I'enifonnis, Grote. 



^ % . Eyes naked, without lashes. Tibiae all unarmed. Maxillae- 

 weaker than in Hadena. Abdomen conical, apparently without tufts in 

 the $ , with longer dorsal depressed scales in the $ , in either sex not 

 with the thick squamation of Hadena. A little larger than Hydr. sera, 

 which it resembles, but is more blackish, and the reniform is contrastedly 

 annulate with white scales which usually extend along veins 3 and 4 at 

 base, as in Haworthi. Beneath the thoracic squamation is somewhat 

 woolly. Blackish brown ; suhterminal space usually contrasting by its 

 pale ochreous color. Median space wide. Orbicular an oblique finely 

 and faintly pale ringed annulet, concolorous with the wing. Claviform 

 indistinct, black. Reniform very narrow, its base visible between veins 3 

 and 4, neatly ringed with pure white, preceded by a pale vertical streak 

 which appears to cover the closure of the cell, but which is probably part 

 of the true outer annulus of the spot. Median shade black, irregular, 

 faint. T. p. line accentuated on the nervules, even, pale between double 

 lines, not retreated on cell 2, followed by black nervular dots on the 

 subterminal space. Subterminal line preceded by a dark brown shade 

 which shows some more determinate shade marks, produced opposite the 

 median nervure. Terminal space black, narrow. Interspaceal terminal 

 black dots. The narrow brown fringes cut with pale at extremity of the 

 veins. Hind wings pale fuscous with soiled veins, beneath with distinct 

 dot and faint transverse line. Varies by the darkening of the subterminal 

 space, and obsolescence of the pale scales on the median nervules. 

 Antennn?e simple in both sexes. Expanse 36 m. m. Habitat Canada ;, 

 New York (Mead, No. 120; Lintner, No. 3588 and No. 3741 var.) 

 Collection of r)uftalo Society N. Sciences. 



