NO. 1283. REVISION OF SOME NOCTUID MOTHS— SMITH. 179 



Expa^ise.'—l.^Q to 1.85 inches (33-46 mm.). 



Habitat. — Canada, July and August; New Hampshire, July; Now 

 Jersey, April, May, June, July; New York, Ma}^ to August; Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, in June; Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in April. 



As a whole this common species occurs east of the Rocky Mountains 

 and does not seem to extend into the Southern States. The sexual 

 structures have been sufficiently noted elsewhere. The males are uni- 

 formly larger than the females and sometimes the disproportion is 

 very striking. 



Besides this variation in size there is a difference in color, the tend- 

 ency being to a reddish tint. The distinctly red form Mr. Grote 

 named callida^ and comparing it with Guenee's ohast-a, in the British 

 Museum, I concluded that the two were identical. The species was 

 described as from America, and Walker credits it to the United States, 

 from Doubleday. Mr. Grote, in 1882, referred it somewhat doubt- 

 fully as a synonym of pseudargyria, and I saw no reason to differ with 

 him. Now Sir George Hampson declares that Guenee's species is 

 from Tasmania; hence should not be associated with the American 

 form. I therefore restore Mr. Grote's term callida to indicate the red 

 form of jjneadargyria. 



LEUCANIA PILIPALPIS Grote. 



Hclioph i la pllipalpis GnoTE, Proc. Bost. 8of. Nat. Hist, XVIII, 1875, p. 415. 

 "A male specimen having the facies and ornamentation ot j)seudargyria Guen., but 

 without the exaggerated tufting of abdomen and tibife. Stout, with hairy eyes and 

 smooth front, and with a curious fan-shaped tuft of spreading hair arising from the 

 upper surface of the second joint of the unusually prominent palpi. Head, thorax, 

 and anterior wings concolorous, fawn gray, like pale specimens of its ally. Fore- 

 wings sparsely speckled with black. Median lines fragmentary, composed of black 

 marks; transverse anterior line outwardly oblique, subobsolete. Cell shaded with 

 black. Orbicular spot wanting. Reniform, narrow, pale, S-shaped, intersecting 

 inferiorly the black discal shade. Transverse posterior line formed of double dots, 

 connected as in pseudargyria, but the line is more oblique and inwardly removed. 

 Fringes pinkish, as is the internal margin, the latter showing an accumulation of the 

 black irrorations. Hind wings whitish, with a smoky clouding outwardly above 

 vein 2. Beneath whitish, without markings, with the fringes on fore wings pink, 

 and the black transverse line visible on costa. ' ' 



Expmnae. — 1.72 inches (43 mm.). 



Ilahitat. — Appalachicola, Florida (Thaxter). 



Since seeing the original tj'pe of this species I have seen only one 

 other example of this species, a female, which, through the courtesy 

 of Mr. Schaus, is now before me. It is in poor condition, but 

 undou])tedly this species. Compared with the description of the male, 

 the transverse anterior line is less obvious and the reniform is not 

 S-shaped. Otherwise the agreement is close. 



The palpi in the female are unusually long and slender for a meml)cr 

 of this genus, are closely clothed, and without special modification. 



