Lepidopterologioal Misa r lanies. 158 



Under surface like the ripper. 

 Expanse. 25-30 millimetres. 

 Habitat. — Northern United States. Common. 

 Euphanessa unicolor. sp. nor. (Plate 1, fig. 2.) 



Antennae black. Head and thorax, above and beneath, briffht 



red. Legs, red externally, internally blackish. 



Upper and under surfaces of both pairs of wings and fringes, 

 bright red, unicolorous. Abdomen, above and beneath, red, 



Expanse. 23-25 millimetres. 



Habitat. — Texas. ("Waco County, June 24th," (i. \Y. Bel- 



frage.) ■ 



PYRALIDAE. 

 Subfamily HYDROCAMPID A E. 

 Genus OLIGOSTIGMA. Gtaen6e. 

 Oligostigma albalis. sp. nov. (Plate 1, fig. 3.) 



Antenuse, palpi, head, thorax and appendages, and abdo- 

 men, pure white. 



Anterior wings, white. A dark brown line, commencing at 

 the base, runs along internal margin to before the middle, and 

 curving upwardly to the cell runs thence straightly outwardly 

 to beyond the middle, and curving upwardly joins tl, 

 before apical third, enclosing a subcostal darl^brown dot. 

 The space enclosed by this line is more or less finely do 

 with scattered brown scales; beyond, asnbterminal dark-bn 

 transverse line and a terminal yellow band, bordered out 

 wardly and inwardly by narrow dark-brown lines. Frii 

 white. 



Posterior wings white, with a transverse discal I i a 



subterminal line dark-brown. A terminal yellow band, lira 

 by dark-brown lines as in the anterior pair. I I 



Under surface of both pairs pure whifc 



k'.rjxiits, . 23 millimetres. 



Habitat. — New York; Pennsylvania. 



