394 ' [November 



some black scales. A marginal series of triangular spots. Fringe dark 

 at the base, spotted externally with silver. 



Beneath, thorax and abdomen yellowish brown, as is the costa, which 

 is banded by three dusky patches. Dusky in the median portion of 

 the wings. Legs dark externally. 



Length of body, .60; exp. wings, 1.80 inch. 



Not uncommon at Brunswick, Me., at light in August. 



Mass., (Coll. Sanborn.) 



Hepialus labradoriensis n. sp. 



Uniform dark sable brown. Primaries narrower and more produced 

 towards the rounded apex than //. mustditms^ which it closely resem- 

 bles. The outer edge of the wing is also much more obli([ue. Some 

 darker scales along the median nervule. Li the middle of the subme- 

 dian space is a large black angulated spot, margined with light brown. A 

 submarginal straight oblique broad paler band, dislocated in the middle 

 of the wing, curved between the nervules, and enclosing black dots ; 

 margined externally with blackish scales. 



Secondaries uniform sable, of a paler hue than in the preceding spe- 

 cies. Fringe concolorous. lieneath colored the same as above. 



Length of body, .GO; exp. wings, 1.45 inch. 



Salmon Bay, on Caribou Island, Labrador, Straits of Belle Isle, Au- 

 gust 3rd, 18G0. (A. S. P.. Jr.) 



Hepialus carnus Fabr.? Walk. Cat. Le]). Br. Mus. VII. ]>. 1556. (1856). 

 St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Barnston, (Walk. ) 



