REVISION OF SOME NOGTUID, MOTHS— SMITH. 197 



gray transverse lines. Thorax a little black powdered. Primaries 

 more or less shaded with red l)rown and streaked with l)lack. A 

 prominent blaek .streak below the broadly white median vein. A 

 black dot at the l)ranching of the median vein. Veiiis narrowly white, 

 and hence the costal region is a little paler. A black mark is on the 

 inner margin near the base; another is in the submedian interspace 

 toward the anal angle. Other black streaks are in the interspaces 

 above vein o, forming the base of a triangular dusky shade. Trans- 

 verse posterior line punctiform, not well marked. A series of black 

 terminal dots. Secondaries dirty fuscous, with pale yellowish fringes. 

 Beneath, the sexual tuftings are discoloi'ed, brown. Primaries red- 

 dish gray, powdery, a little darker on the disk. Secondaries whitish, 

 with the costal area powdery, yellowish. 



Krjxmxc. — 1.40 to 1.50 inches (35 to 137.5 mm). 



Jliihltdf. — Nova Scotia; Canada; Winnipeg, Manitoba, July 2 (Han- 

 ham); Maine (Fei'uald); Massachusetts; Albany, New York, June 22 

 (Bailey); New York, June to August; Wisconsin; Minnesota; Illinois; 

 New Mexico (Snow); Colorado; Florida in March. 



The species has a wide distribution, is not at all rare, and is easily 

 recognized. The prominent black streak beneath the white median 

 vein and the dark red color are distinctive characteristics. Add to 

 this the prominent abdominal and leg tuftings of the male and the 

 species becomes unmistakable. 



The leg tuftings are as follows: Anterior femora with a continuous 

 fringing of hairy scales beneath, making a thick mass, but no tuft. 

 Tibia with a thick outward scaling, but no tuftings or longer hair. 

 Middle leg somewhat shortened, tibial spurs long, the inner curved 

 and somewhat flattened. Femora with continuous dense fringing of 

 long hair and scales, longer at base. Tibiii? with long hair tufts in 

 front and at sides, capable of brush-like expansion; one at the side 

 may be also capable of fan-like expansion. Posterior femora with 

 long hair fringe basally. Tibia^ with longtn- hair outwardly toward 

 base, ])ut no brush. 



The harpes of the genitalia are densely clothed outwardly with long- 

 yellow hair, intermixed with broadly flattened scales, forming a mass 

 that can l)e fluffily expanded, making neither a deflnits brush nor fan- 

 like expansion. 



LEUCANIA PHRAGMATIDICOLA Guenee. 



Leiicania pjiritf/maliilicola Gtenee, Spec, (ieii., Noct., I, 1S52, p. Si). — Walker, 



C. B.,Mus., Het., IX, 1856, \). 97. 

 ILIiojiliilii plinujtnutidicola \SiV. texmia Morhisox, Proc. BofJt. Soc. N. H., XVII, 



1874, p. 211. 



Ground color a very pale luteous, varying to grayish or i-eddish, 

 sometimes reaching a decided warm fawn brown. Head and thorax 

 concolorous. Collar with three darker transverse lines, which tend 



