THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 17 



NEW SPECIES AND GENERA OF NORTH AMERICAN 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY WiM. BARNES, iM.D, , AND J. MCDUNNOUGH, PH.D., DECATUR, ILL. 



Faviily Noduidce. 

 He Hot hi s œtheria, sp. no v. 



Head and thorax clothed with olivaceous hairs ; primaries dark olive 

 green, in most cases entirely suffased with rich purplish as far as the sub- 

 terminal line ; a blue spot on costa near base, often extending along costa 

 to t. a. line ; this latter pale blue, rather broad, strongly and evenly 

 convex ; t. p. line narrower, slightly defined by blue, especially on costal 

 and inner margins, perpendicular to costa and well beyond reniform to a 

 point opposite base of same, then strongly incurved to below reniform 

 and again straight to inner margin ; median area largely filled with pale 

 yellowish, leaving a narrow costal border and a larger patch on inner 

 margin of the ground colour, and containing a large dark quadrate 

 reniform more or less scaled with purplish, the upper portion of which 

 tends to suffuse with costal border ; s. t. line marked by the difference in 

 shade between the purplish subterminal area and the narrow olive terminal 

 portion, slightly waved, on the whole parallel to outer margin ; fringes 

 concolorous. Secondaries black, with an irregular pale yellow median 

 band not reaching inner margin, and much constricted in central portion, 

 or even broken into two spots ; fringes whitish. Beneath, primaries 

 black, with a broad, sharply defined pale yellow median band containing 

 a large black discal spot corresponding to reniform, terminal area at costa 

 suffused with whitish; secondaries as above, but costal area pale yellowish 

 and median band broader, entirely enclosing black discal spot; costal half 

 of terminal area suffused with whitish ; fringes pale, darker at apex of 

 primaries. Expanse, 25 mm. 



Habitat: Redington, Ariz, 10 ^^ s, 14 $ s. Types, collection 

 Barnes. 



The species is closely related \o siieta Grt., which, however, lacks the 

 blue shading of the Arizona form ; the ground colour is quite variable, at 

 times all traces of the pink suffusion being lost. 



Schinia velutina, sp. nov. 



Head, thorax, abdomen and wings white, very slightly suffused vvith 

 a pale ochreous. At first glance apparently immaculate, by holding in 

 certain lights the maculation of primaries is distinctly visible as satiny 

 white lines ; t. a. line strongly outwardly oblique to just below cubital 



January. 1912 



