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Gluphisia lintneri (Grote.) 



(I'l. I, tig. 18.) 



Dasychira Unlnei-i Grote, Cau. Ent., ix, p. 85, 1877. 

 Gluphisia lintneri Dyar, Can. Ent. xxiii, p. 159, 1891. 



.Smith, List Lep. Bor. Aiuer., p. 30, 1891. 



Kirby, Cat. Lep. Hot., i, p. 593, 1892. 



Pack., Psyche, vi., p. 500, Aug., 1893. 



Neum. and Dyar, Trans. Amer. Ent. 8oc., xxi, p. 194, 1894; Journ. K". Y. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 115, 

 Sept., 1894. 



Originally described as a Dasychira, this is a true Gluphisia, but, with G. sevcra and 

 avhnacitla, belouging to a distinct section of the genus. Tlie ariteinia' are iirovided with long, 

 close pectinations; the body is stout and hairy, and there is not a well-marked dorsal tuft present; 

 the costa of the fore wings is much more convex than in G. septentrionis, and the apex somewhat 

 produced as in G. isevera. Body stout and hairy; antennie almost plumose, having long, dense 

 branches, white, the branches duskj\ 



Body and wings ash or mouse gray. Head nearly as large in proportion as in G. septentrionis; 

 palpi feeble, small, not distinct from the hairs of the front. Fore wings with the costa much more 

 convex than in G. septentrionis^ and the apex somewhat produced, of the same color as the 

 body; a basal black line bent outward at a right angle on the costal vein, and again sending out 

 a distinct long loop on the cubical vein; tlie middle or intradiscal black line firm, straight, not 

 curved inward as in septentrionis, slightly bent outward on the cubical vein; extradiscal line 

 slightly scalloped, bent inward on the costal edge. A very faint, linear, dark, discal spot. A 

 tawny or clay-yellow (luteous) patch at base of wing in the median space and passing a little 

 beyond the basal line. The space between the inner and the outer (extradiscal) line is filled in 

 with clay-yellow, forming a broad median luteous band which is nearly as wide on the inner edge 

 as on the costal edge. There is also a series of submargmal lunate faint luteous patclies or 

 blotches, with some black scales intermingled. The costal edge is entirely free from luteous 

 scales. Hind wings dark, like the fore wings, with a distinct dark line on the outer third, which 

 is most distinct on the inner edge of the wing, succeeded by a light shade. Beneath the wings 

 are dusky and both crossed by a common dark diffuse line. No discal spot, as in wrightii and var. 

 avimacida. 



Expanse of wings, i 40 mm.; length of body, S 15 mm. 



Geographical (//sfr(6/(</o».— Plattsbiirg, N. Y., April :.'."., flying to light April 12, 20. 23, 30, 

 May 11 (G. II. Iludsou) (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 0217); Francouia, N. H. (Mrs. Slosson); New 

 York!, April (U. S. Nat. Mus.); New York (French). 



Gluphisia severa Ed wards. 



(PI. I, figs. 14-16.) 

 Gluphisia severa H. Edwards, Ent. Amer., ii, p. 167, Dec, 1886. 

 Gluphisia avimacula Hudson, Ent. News, ii, No. 8, p. 1.55, Oct., 1891. 



Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lep. Het., p. 593, 1892. 



D.yar, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, xxi, p. 194, 1894. 

 Gluphisia scrcra var. slossoniiv. Packard. 

 Alelia dunhiji Neum. Cau. Ent., xxiv, p. 22.5, 1892. 

 Eumelia tlunbiji Neum. Can. Ent., xxv, p. 25, 1892. 



Eumelia serera Neum. and Dyar, Trans. Amer. Eut. Soc, xxi, p. 194, June, 1894; ,Touru. N. Y. Ent. Soc, ii, p. 115, 

 Sept., 1894. 



Larva. 

 Dyar, Psyche, vi, p. 503, Aug., 1893. 



Of the two female specimens placed under G. severa in the Edwards collection, one (not the 

 type, which is a 9 from Soda Springs, Cal., April 15, with eggs), probably added after his 

 description was published, I regarded provisionally as a specimen of G. wrightii. Its locality is 

 Sierra Nevada, Cal. (and Mr. Beuteumiiller suggests that it may have been taken at Mount 

 Shasta). The specimen is perfectly preserved, and in its structural characters is clo.selj allied to 

 G. severa. The thorax has a median tuft, as in G. severa. From the type of icrightii it differs in 

 the more distinct and darker markings, being less rubbed. 



