Notes and Descriptions, No. 2. 5 



Head, thorax and appendages covered with mixed grey scales. Ab- 

 domen paler than secondaries. 



Exp. 9 2.00 inches. Length of body, 0.85 inch. 



Habitat.— Rhode Island. (Seekonk.) Coll. Mrs. S. W. Bridgham. 



The more simple ornamentation of this species will quickly distin- 

 guish it from Parorgyia Clintonii nob. The male is unknown to us. 



Parorgyia parallels, n. s. (Plate 1, fig. 5, 9 •) 



9 . Anterior wings pale olivaceous-cinereous, much clouded with 

 brown and sparsely sprinkled with black scales. hJasally the costal 

 half of the wing is olivaceous cinereous; the median nervure is 

 covered narrowly along its length with black scales which are pro- 

 longed along the fourth m. nervule. Below, a broader black longi- 

 tudinal stripe runs from the base of the wing to beyond the t. p. line 

 along the sub-median fold, and is connected with the dark scales along 

 the median nervure by an oblique black line (appearing as if covering 

 a vein) at about its middle. This is part of the inner median line 

 which is dentate and much as in P. Clintonii but less distinct. The 

 inner median line is preceded by brown scales which stretch, beneath 

 the median nervure, from the base of the wing across the median 

 space centrally and on both sides of the outer median line, not extend- 

 ing inferiority below the black longitudinal stripe. The discal space 

 is covered with white scales but the outlines of the spot are indeter- 

 minate. The outer median line is distinct, black, strongly marked 

 and. while slightly excavate and irregular, is without prominent inflec- 

 tions. Terminally and below the prominent longitudinal stripe the 

 wing is covered with pale olivaceous-cinereous scales. Terminal line 

 brown, much as in P. obliquata nobis. The fringes are much alike 

 in all three species. 



Secondaries pale brownish, no discal spot apparent; a neatly defined, 

 irregular, narrow blackish band, which is further removed from the 

 external margin than in either of the preceding species and more 

 concise. Under surface a little darker than upper surface of secon- 

 daries, no perceptible discal spots; a common distinct dark baud; on 

 the secondaries it is wider than that on the upper surface, but covering 

 it and entirely analogous to it. 



Head and thorax cinereous; abdomen concolorous, or nearly so, with 

 secondaries; beneath, darker, as are the legs, these latter with darker 

 maculations on tibiae and tarsi outwardly. Under thoracic surface 

 griseous. 



Exp. 9 2.00 inches. Length of body, 0.95 inch. 



