40 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



9 ■ — Expanse 17-22 mm. 



Forewiiig: brownish or dark reddish-ochreous, a slightly darker median shade 

 from base running into the blackish-brown shade, which covers the outer third. 

 Ocellic spot: of two curved bars of shining leaden scales, shaped as two halves of 

 a circle but open top and bottom. Costal spots absent, but the boundary lines of 

 shining leaden present, with a few scales of same color in middle of termen. 

 Cilia dark brown and shining fuscous, preceded by a line, of gray scales. 



Hindwing: reddish- or Indian-brown, with a coppery reflection, darker around 

 edges, cilia paler, with a darker basal line. 



Twelve Z and six 9 specimens, all collected near Caldwell, N. J. 

 I have also bred this species from larvse living in the main stem of 

 Aster patens throughout the winter.* 



Thiodia umbrastriana sp. nov. 



^ . — Expanse 16-18 mm. 



Head : pale fawn color, mixed with brown scales, thorax the same, with brown 

 central and lateral lines, pa tagia paler; palpi gray, whitish internally ; antenna 

 pale fawn, darker at base ; abdomen shining fuscous, anal tuft fawn ; legs whit- 

 ish-fawn, dusted with brown. 



Forewing: light ochreous, straw color, with a diffused median streak of pale 

 umber from base to outer third, where it joins the shade of the same color cover- 

 ing outer third of wing. The ocellus consists of a double bar of leaden scales, 

 joined below in shape of U. The costal lines are not distinct as in the preceding 

 species, and a streak of the ground color runs al)ove the dark shade nearly to 

 apex but towards its outer end becomes brown. Cilia ochreous-fuscous, preceded 

 by a line of gray and black dots. 



Hindwing: smoky fuscous, cilia whitish, preceded by a darker line; underside 

 shining ochreous-white. 



Underside forewing: brownish-ochreous, paler along costa and a darker shade 

 in upper half of cell. 



9 . — Expanse 16-18 mm. 



Head: as in male but darker, and containing gray scales;' palpi, thorax and 

 legs darker. 



Forewing: similar to male, but very much darker and more clouded with the 

 umber color, which is not confined to outer third. 



Hindwing: dark coppery smoky brown ; cilia ochreous-brown, preceded by a 

 darker line. 



Eighteen % and five 9 specimens: Aweme, Man., June 9th to 

 22d, Griddle; Cincinnati, Ohio, May 23d to June 6th, Miss Braun ; 

 Beaver Co., Pa., F. A. Merrick. 



Thiodia roseoterminana sp. nov. 



% . — Expanse 17.5-21 mm. 



Head : grayish-brown ; palpi gray, whitish internally ; thorax pale fawn, darker 

 in front and behind, patagia darker at base; antenna grayish-fuscous; abdomen 

 yellowish-fuscous, tuft paler; legs pale fawn, dusted with darker. 



* Recorded in Journal of New York Entomological Society, Vol. XI, Sept., 

 1903, p. 159, as T. radiatana owing to a wrong determination. 



