158 GEO. D. HULST. 



This resembles petrellas in, shape, size and lines, and may be a 

 black variety of that species, but with a considerable number of 

 specimens I have no intergradations. 



2. E. petrelliis Zell., Isis 1846, p. 771; 1848, p. 886; Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges. 

 Wieu. 1872, p. 545 (Beit, i, 99), (Pempelia). 



, erectalis Wlk., Cat. B. Mus. pt. 27, p. 42, 1863 (Trachonitis). - 



^rufinalis Walk., C. B. M. pt. 27, p. 56. 1863 (Nephopteryx). 



y hapsella HuLst, Ento. Am. iii, 132, 1887 (Nephopteryx). 



'^obsipella Hnlst, Ento. Am. iv, 118, 1888 (Honora). 



Expands 20 — 26 mm. Labial palpi reddish; tongue white ; liead and thorax 

 reddish with fuscous tinge; fore wings brown, with lighter, almost light gray 

 costal stripe, pink towards base; base of wing deep red; basal line a reddish 

 band edged on either side with a more or less broken dentate line, the inner bor- 

 dered basally with a broad blackish band ; outer line distinct, not far from mar- 

 gin, finely dentate ; discal spots evident. Hind wings light fuscous. 



Florida, Texas. 



This species is quite variable in depth of color and distinctness of 

 its markings ; some specimens have considerable gray scattered over 

 the fore wings, others are quite decidedly brown with costal stripe 

 not very evident. Zeller's specimens of pefrellus, with his labels in 

 the Cambridge Museum, are this species, not lignosellus, as Ragonot 

 catalogues the insect. It seems impossible, in any case, that Zeller 

 could have described the same insect under four names. I have 

 received the species from Florida in April, and from Texas in Sep- 

 tember, so it may hibernate. 



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3. E. decoralis Walk.. C. B. M. pt. 27, p. 42, 1863 [Nephopteryx). 



metagrammalis Wlk., C. B. M. pt. 27, p. 54, 1863 {Nephopteryx). 



I do not know this insect. The reference is by Mr. Ragonot. 

 Walker's description is : 



"Cinereous, rather slender, with a tinge of fawn color. Palpi stout, obliquely 

 ascending, rising a little higher than the vertex ; third joint conical, one-sixth 

 length of second. Antennae dilated at base. Abdomen extending a little beyond 

 the hind wings, with two lanceolate apical appendages. Fore wings narrow, 

 rounded at the tips, irregularly powdered with pale cinereous; a black mark on 

 the exterior border before the middle, and two or three minute, indistinct, black 

 marks in the exterior part of the disc. Marginal points black ; exterior border 

 slightly convex, rather oblique. Hind wings pale cinereous, with an aeneous 

 tinge. Length of body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 — 16 lines. 



" United States." 



4. E. florirtellus'n. sp. — Expands 24 — 26 mm. Labial j)alpi, head and 

 thorax fuscous gray, the thorax washed with reddish violet; abdomen yellow 

 fuscous; fore wings rather even light gray, pretty heavily powdered with black- 

 ish, giving a blue-gray appearance, darkest along costa apically. and in outer 



