28 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



" a darker form than mutatis.* Provisionally I retain this name of com- 

 munis for the species ; if rantatis of Guenee' proves identical, the name 

 communis will apply merely to the paler, yellowish specimens as a color 

 variety. There is a tendency in several fuscous brown species of this 

 family to vary in the direction of pale yellowish or ochreous, as for 

 instance, Botis fracturaiis of Zeller and Botis argyralis of Hiibner. 



Crocidophora Led. 



C. tuberculaiis Led., Taf. 2, fig. 1 9. 



I have taken this species near Buffalo, N. Y., in June. 



C. pustuiiferalis Led., Taf. 12, fig. u. 



I have taken this species in Alabama. My single £ specimen is 

 larger and does not agree very well with Lederer's figure. 



C. serratissimaiis Zeller. 



I have taken one $ near Buffalo, and I find that my Botis subdentalis 

 is the % of this species, and consequently a synonym, Prof. Zeller's 

 description being earlier. 



Homophysa albolineata. 



Lipocosma albolineata G. & R., 1, 28, pi. 2, fig. 22. 



The ocelli are present. It is not improbable that this is the glaphy- 

 ralis of Guenee' 



Homophysa peremptalis, n. s. 



$ . The smallest species, much smaller than fulminatis Led., of which 

 latter I have a specimen from Texas (Belfrage, No. 394) and two from 

 New York. Ocelli present. Fore wings ochre-brown, darker, somewh;** 

 fuscous at base. The uniform dark tint unbroken by any paler shading. 

 Interior line exceedingly fine, composed of white scales, forming two 

 large teeth, of which the upper is much the more prominent ; the lower 

 outward angulation on submedian fold being less obvious. The outer 

 white line is very faint, near the external margin, evenly and widely arcu- 

 ate, running inwardly submedially. Both lines very faintly relieved by 

 dark scales. On external margin below apices are three interspaceal dark 

 dots followed within by white ones. It is the commencement of a dis- 

 continued series, of which another is faintly visible at internal angle. 



