AMKUrCAN LIJ'IDOPTKRA. 27!) 



New York, Wiushin^'-ton, ^Monluini, Alherta, Canadii. Very nnicli 

 in appearance like Eudroma prunnta, with which it may have been 

 confounded, hut easily distiniruished hy the bipectinate anteniuc. 



Tiie specimen received from ( algarry has the cross-bands bhickish 

 instead of brown, and tlie hind wings have a more distinct banding. 



X. !>«|>0('i<»»$a II. s]). — Expands 40 mm. Palpi dark fuscous: front blackisli 

 fuscous: front black : aiitenuic black above, fuscous ochreous below; thorax dark 

 fuscous, the tufts hriglit orange-yellow. Abdomen gray, mixed with fuscous, 

 with white dorsal line and with each segment black subdorsally and posteriorly ; 

 fore wings base black with some gray scales across middle, a broad wliite intra- 

 discal Itand beyond, shaded with yellowish, except at edges, and with some mixing 

 of blackish scales, a discal band beyond this black, rather narrower than the 

 intra-discal, veiy slightly lightened at middle: outer space white shaded with 

 yellow and olive to edge ; a scalloped submarginal line, the lunulcs white without 

 black within, with two heavy black triangular spots below costa near apex, and 

 a large subapical black spot along edge lined above and inwardly with white; a 

 bioken submarginal black line; bind wings smoky gray with two outer scalloped 

 lines both edged with whitish outwardly ; beneath smoky to outer part of discal 

 l)aiid on both wings, then a whitish band ; on fore wings beyond this smoky, with 

 whitish at apex, and on hind wings witli a blackish cross-line, the outer space 

 whitish. 



One % , C.'algarry, Alberta, Canada. From Mr. F. II. Wulley-Dod. 



This may be a variety of N. xylina Hidst, but the color and 

 shaping of the bands is different, and there is difference of position 

 in the lines of the hind wings. 



27. PI^KMVKIA Hub. 

 Verz. 327, 1818 {Rheumaptera Iliib. Tentamen 1810). 

 Type bicolorata Hiib. 



('osiiii>rlit>i' Hiib.. Verz. 32(), 1818. ty))e (jdliafa Hiib. 

 Kpin-ltoc Hiib., Verz. 328, 1818, type rivata Hiib. 

 Eiilfipa Hiib., Verz., .328, 1818. type hastala L. 

 MHdtiippe Dup., Hist. Nat. viii. 277, 1829, type hastaiu L. 



Palpi moderate, scaled; tongue - developed ; clypeus somewhat 

 scale tufted; antennie filiform ciliate in both sexes; thorax and al)- 

 domen smooth; hind tibite with all spurs; fore wings 12 veins, one 

 accessory cell ; hind wings, 8 vein.s, G and 7 stemmed.. 8 with cell to 

 beyond middle. 



This corresponds to the Tentamen genus Rlieumapteni, the tyj)e 

 of which was Itusfatd. Mr. Meyrick calls this genus P/emijria, of 

 which hlco/onitu Hiib. is the type. C'osuiorhoe was named by Hiib-, 

 ner with (jdliuta Hiib. as ty})e. Galhtta and bicolorata are conge- 



TRANS. .\M. ENT. SOC. XXIII. AUGUST. 1896. 



