130 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



darker sides of the face and palpi. There will be nothing gained in 

 throwing these forms together, and they must be bred to decide. The 

 character of the t. p. line escaped me until recently, and speaks for the 

 ultimate distinctness of Hospitalis. 



Xylomiges Fletc/ieri, n. s. 



■ The species sent me from Vancouver, by my kind correspondent Mr. 



James Fletcher, is apparently allied to the forms described by myself from 



California, under Xylomiges, such as hiemalis and curialis ; a specimen 



of X. crucialis Harv. is also before me from Vancouver. Fletcheri differs 



by the more Gompact shape, the pale fuscous hind wings with darker 



stained veins. The eyes are hairy, the body untufted, and the color is a 



stone gray overlaid with whitish, so that the moth approaches Anytus 



sculptus in color. The costa is straight, the wings rather short and full 



outwardly, with pronounced apicer, reminding one a little of Cloautha. 



To the eye the wings appear of a rather light stone gray, but under the 



glass the whole base of the wing is seen to be overlaid by white scales, as 



also the coalesced large stigmata, which are outlined in black, completely 



fused inferiorly, forming an irregular V ; the inner limb of this, the 



obicular is outwardly oblique ; the outer, the reniform, is upright, sinuate 



on its outer edge. The white scales appear again over the terminal 



portion of the wing. The lines are black, fragmentary, marked by different 



shades on costa. A fine black basal ray. The median lines are waved 



and inferiorly approach each other, narrowing greatly the median space 



below the cell ; the concolorous claviform spot, also outlined by black 



scales, joins the median lines on submedian fold, although moderate in 



size. The subterminal line is fragmentary, black, appearing between the 



veins. Head and thorax fuscous gray, a little darker than fore wings, 



unlined ; tegular shaded with whitish ; at the sides with a black edging. 



Abdomen dusky gray. Beneath the primaries are clouded fuscous ; the 



secondaries paler than above with a neat dot and an extra- mesial line 



accentuated on the veins. Antennae of the male simple ; smaller and 



shorter-winged than the other species described by me. Expanse 30 mil. 



Orthosia hamifera n. sp. 



This species has been sent me from California, by my kind friend Mr. 

 James Behrens. It is allied to purpurea, but larger. The male antennae 

 are brush-like, female simple. The fore wings are pointed at apices ; 



