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as it joins tlie exterior line. Subterminal line very irregular, jagged and con- 

 spicuous on account of the contrast of color between the terminal and sub- 

 terminal spaces. It forms particularly two Hadena-Yike teeth along the second 

 and third median branches. Nervules black in the terminal space. Posterior 

 wings white, tinged slightly with yellow. Nervules at their termination 

 blackish, thus giving the wings a narrow irregular terminal band. Anterior 

 wings beneath, dark fuscous, lighter along the inner margin ; traces of the 

 exterior line. Posterior wings beneath, yellowish white, distinctly yellow at 

 the base and along the costa. 



Habitat, Tuckernuck Island, near Nantucket. Four specimens 

 taken by Mr. Bigelow, and now in the collections of Edward Bur- 

 gess and H. K. Morrison. 



This and the following species are quite different in color from 

 the only European species of the genus I have ( Virens, Linn.). 

 But their generic characters agree exactly Avith those of Luperina, 

 Led., and I have no hesitation in referring them there. 



L. Burgessi can be distinguished by the white posterior wings, 

 and the black dash connecting the median lines of the anterior 

 wings. The basal submedian line and the jagged subterminal are 

 also good characters. It has a superficial resemblance to Dryohota 

 fibulata, from which it can be separated by the absence of bristly 

 eye lashes, the untufted abdomen, and the white posterior wings. 



I take great pleasure in dedicating this new species to Mr. Edward 

 Burgess, Secretary of the Boston Society of Natural History, a 

 most careful student, and naturalist. 



Luceria loculata (nov. sp.). 

 Expanse, 36 m. m. Length of hody, 18 m. m. 



Eyes naked, without bristlj' lashes. Male antennae setiform, the fringes 

 extremely fine. Thorax dark grayish or carneoua brown, the vertex and front 

 almost black. Anterior wings dull carneous grayish brown, with the terminal 

 space and the wings adjoining the nervules, particularly in the median space, 

 dull black, with a slight purple reflection in certain lights. Interior line, sin- 

 gle, subobsolete, dentate, forming two broad teeth between the median and 

 submedian nervures, and tlie latter and the inner margin. The ordinary spots 

 give the only strongly marked characteristics of the wings ; the orbicular and 

 reniform are concolorous and contained in a shade of the ground color situa- 

 ted between the two blackish shade lines following the subcostal and median 

 nervures. The orbicular varies in shape ; it is sometimes round, again it is 



