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Genus DRYOBOTA, Lederer. 



Dryobota iibulata (uov. sp.). 



Expanse, 36 m. m. Length of body, 15 m. m. 



Eyes naked, with strong bristly lasbes. Palpi blackisb witli intermixed 

 gray hairs, third joint cylindrical, distinct. Front and vertex gray. Collar 

 arched, dark gray, with an evident central black line ; the upper edge of the 

 collar whitish. Thorax square with an angular projection on each side, and a 

 flat, longitudinally furrowed fore and hind tuft above ; the front of the tuft 

 is marked in the same manner as the collar, that is to say, gray, with a black 

 central line and tipped with white. Thorax mixed gray and white beneath ; 

 beneath the angular projection in tbe sides there is a clear white spot. Abdo- 

 men with four strong tufts, the third the most prominent, vertical, rounded 

 behind ; the fourth is horizontal and square behind. Anterior wings with 

 light gray and blackish fields. A short basal longitudinal dash between the 

 median and submedian nervures. Ground color of the basal and sub-basal 

 spaces light gray with numerous darker and brownish gray discolorations ; 

 shades of the latter color are also to be found in and around the orbicular and 

 beyond the reniform. Interior line irregular, thickened opposite the orbicular, 

 which it adjoins, then nearly straight to the submedian nervure, below which 

 it forms a spade-shaped tooth. Median space blackish gray, with various 

 lighter and brownish gray spots. Orbicular of medium size, light gray, with 

 central brownish gray shades ; forming a perfect ellipsis, its major axis par- 

 allel to the fourth median nervule. Median nervure and its branches blackish, 

 beneath the former, the claviform spot distinct, large, concolorous, triangular, is 

 outlined in black. Its lower side forming part of a black dash which connects 

 the interior and exterior lines. Reniform spot large, indistinctly outlined 

 outwardly, light gray, with a crescent-shaped brownish gray internal shade. 

 Exterior line indistinctly geminate, dentate, of usual shape. Subterminal 

 space whitish gray, darker costally ; terminal space dark gray, separated from 

 the former by a white line following the lobate black subterminal line, both 

 more distinct near and at the costa. The line at the base of the fringe dentate, 

 connected with short lines which extend inward between the nervules. Pos- 

 terior wings uniform dark gray, without lines or spots. Beneath both wings 

 dark gray, the anteriors nearly uniformly colored ; the posteriors lighter at the 

 base with a distinct discal dot and faint line. 



Hah., Quebec, Can. In my collection from Prof, F. X. Belanger. 



Our first species of Dryobota, is perhaps separated with the greatest 

 facility from the species it resembles most, by its generic charac- 

 ters. It has somewhat the color and markings of Mamestra atlan- 



