Cl)e Canadian Entomologist, 



VOL. XIV. LONDON, ONT., OCTOBER, 1882. No. 10 



NEW MOTHS. 



BY A. R. GROTE, A. M. 

 (Contitnuii from fingr /dj.) 



Fota armata Grote. 



This has somewhat the form of Stilbia : the fringes are long on 

 secondaries. A second female like type in size has the black submedian 

 dash wanting, and the filling on cell, but hind wings are like type in being 

 pale fuscous. Base of forewings above pale ochrey shaded. Another has 

 the primary all gray ; Armata may be known by its larger size, fuscous 

 secondary and different sculpture of clypeal armature. 



Whether the following are really different I do not know ; they appear 

 to be so most certainly. 



Fota minorata, n. s. 



2 ,^ , 2 ^ . Head above and collar pale ochre, paler than armata^ 

 and this form is Yi smaller. Markings very like ; a pale ochrey shade 

 over submedian space. The grey primaries have all the markings of 

 armata^ without the broad black longitudinal shades ; the median shade 

 is, however, noticeable and the lines indicated. But the hind wings are 

 pellucid white with soiled costa in both sexes. Armature of clypeus 

 agreeing, except that the central arm has a cup-shaped depression 

 at top ; this I have again gone over and seems to me a good character. 

 Wings a little silky. 



Foteila, n. g. 



This in form is like Acosmetia ; fringes to hind wings long. Eyes 

 naked. Clypeus with a navel-like expansion. Like Fota in the silky hind 

 wings which are full, but the primaries are normally shaped, entire, widen- 

 ing outwardly. Body untufted, eyes unlashed, palpi with small third joint 

 exceeding front a little ; tibiae unarmed. Body slender. Wings full. A 

 Caradrina-like form which seems allied to Fota : 1 think both genera may 

 be related to Stilbia and Caradrina. Size of Fota armata. 



Fotella ?iotalis, n. s. 

 ^ . Fore wings olivaceous blackish, something like Pyrophila glabella 



