NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTEKA. 145 



Descriptiou<!> of new PYRAL,ID.E. 



BY GEO. D. HULST. 



Some two years since I was led to endeavor to make a special 

 study of the Geometridce and Pymliche. The principal part of the 

 work done by me up to the present time has been in the first family, 

 — but I have been looking somewhat into the Pyralidce and collecting 

 at the same time, and a very considerable amount of material has 

 accumulated, for which I can get no names. That it may be handled 

 and in time classified, is the object of the present descriptive paper. 

 The most of the Pyralidce already described are determined in the 

 different American collections. The National Museum has a very 

 considerable collection l)y Belfrage, with Zeller's determinations I 

 believe, though, coming tlirough several hands, I am not able to say 

 how much reliance can be placed upon them. Mr. Henry Edwards 

 has some types, and many typical specimens of Mr. Grote, from the 

 Pacific Coast, and his whole collection has had the advantage of Mr. 

 Grote's determination. Prof. Fernald has the advantage of having 

 the most, if not all, of Packard's, Grote's and Zeller's types identified. 

 So, though Mr. Grote's types went to the British Museum, the loss 

 is in ])art remedied by the possession of typical specimens. A large 

 number of Lederer's, Guenee's alid Walker's species have been de- 

 termined, but quite a large number (almost all of them from the 

 East and South) are yet, after from twenty-five to thirty years, un- 

 identified. Some of them undoubtedly can never be determined. 

 My material described below has been through the hands of our best 

 American specialists, and has come back to me marked or declared 

 " unknown to me." So, making use of the knowledge of others as 

 well as giving faithful study myself, I publish the following as new 

 species. 



PYRALID^. 



PAR.f:DI$ Grote. 



Parsedis uapsealis sp. nor. — Expands 22 mm. Head, anteuua^ aud tho- 

 rax fuscous cinereous ; palpi and abdomen cinereous ; fore wings cinereous along 

 outer and inner margins, forming a broad band, fuscous brown along costa aud 



TRANS. AMEE. ENT. SOC. XIII. (19) JULY, 1886. 



