18 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A NEW HEPIALUS FROM NEW YORK. 



BY A. R. GROTE, BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Hepialus auratus, n. s. 



This species is smaller and slighter than argenteomaculatus, and differs 

 from any previously described from our territory by the gilded primaries, 

 which are as brilliant as those of Plusia verruca. Dull lilac or pinkish 

 fuscous. Fore wings falcate, with a fine brown line on submedian fold. 

 Between the subcostal vein and submedian fold the wing is covered cen- 

 trally with large patches of dead gold. There are two brown costal 

 patches, between which are double pale lilac marks, the inceptions of the 

 transverse lines, of which the outer beyond the outer brown patch is alone 

 continuous, broad, irregular. Some dead gold patches about the discal 

 mark, which is finely margined with brown, pyramidal, bright gilded. 

 Three similar bright gilded, triangulate, brown-edged spots, form part of 

 the subterminal line opposite the cell. Else the s. t. line is narrow and 

 brownish, broadly margined by dead gold shading on either side. Hind 

 wings pinkish fuscous with orange fringes. Beneath fuscous, without 

 marks ; external margin of primaries touched with orange ; the short 

 fringes shaded with orange on both wings. 



Expanse 48 mil. Lewis Co., New York, July, Mr. W. W. Hill. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL INDEX TO AGRICULTURAL REPORTS. 



We have lately received through the kindness of the author, Professor 

 Townend Glover, a most valuable publication entitled " Manuscript Notes 

 from my Journal," being an Entomological index to the names, &c, of 

 insects occurring in the annual agricultural reports published by the 

 Department of Agriculture at Washington from 1854 to the present time, 

 with a list of the vegetable and animal substances injured or destroyed 

 by them. 



This work is published in quarto form, and uniform in style with the 

 previous works of the same author on Diptera, Hemiptera and Orthop- 

 tera, noticed in the earlier volumes of this journal. The first 77 pages 

 is occupied with an alphabetical list of the names of the insects referred 



