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gular black lines : secotidart'es ?ind under surfaces grayish fuscous: legs 

 white, the anterior tarsi tinged with fuscous above. Abdo?nen whitish, the 

 apical joint of the ovipositor piceo-testaceous, laterally compressed, evenly 

 chitinized, stout. 



Described from two specimens ; Kansas (G. F. Gaumer) ; 

 Iowa, March, 1874 (Hoftmeister). Prof. Fernald, having a male 

 of this species, informs me that that sex agrees in coloration with 

 the females, and has the costal fold characteristic of the genus. 



P^DiscA CELTiSANA, n. sp. — (^ . Expanse 15.5 mm. Ashy, the prima- 

 ries mostly ashy-fuscous. Head ashy. Thorax ashy-brown : primaries 

 pale fuscous with a slight coppery reflection; base toward the inner mar- 

 gin white, the middle of the inner margin with an elongated ashy-white 

 patch; costa and disc of the wing slightly speckled with white and black, 

 the black most distinct on the costal border of the large white patch ; an 

 apical dark fuscous spot; fringes ashy, speckled with fuscous and pre- 

 ceded by a white line : secondaries ashy : under surfaces ashy, the prima- 

 ries tinged with fuscous : legs ashy, varied with fuscous on the tibiae and 

 tarsi. Abdomen ashy, paler beneath. 



Described from one specimen bred from Celtis in Texas (Boll.) 

 Prof. Fernald thinks that this may prove to be one of the varieties 

 of vertu?nnana Zell. 



Semasia helianthana, n. sp. — c?. Expanse 15 and 20 mm. Whitish 

 gray, the primaries with two quadrate blackish patches on inner margin 

 and with a black dash and white triangle at the apical angle. Head pale 

 gray, apical joint of palpi in one specimen fuscous, antennae fuscous. 

 Thorax pale gray : primaries gray ; streaked with white and fuscous along 

 the costa; base of wing dark gray, this followed by pale gray, which is in 

 turn followed on the inner margin by a quadrate black or dark brown 

 patch before the middle, this patch produced to a point posteriorly upon 

 the disc of the wing, and in the larger specimen faintly connected there 

 with some of the costal streaks; a similar spot on the inner margin before 

 the posterior angle, extending in the larger specimen upon the disc of the 

 wing before the ocellated spot and there connected with a light brown 

 streak extending from the middle of the costa; ocellated spot white, con- 

 taining a black dot and upon its costal border two longitudinal black lines ; 

 a light brown streak from the outer third of costa extending around the 

 apical border of the ocellated spot to attain the middle of posterior mar- 

 gin ; apical angle with a black dash, preceded upon the costa by a conspi- 

 cuous geminate white triangle, the space behind which has a slight fulvous 

 tinge ; fringes gray, speckled with dark brown or black in the smaller spe- 

 cimen : secondaries gray with lighter fringes: under surface of primaries 

 fuscous, the streaks indicated on the costa; of secondaries silvery-gray: 

 legs gray, the four anterior tibitc and tarsi marked with blackish above. 

 Abdomen gray. 



