50 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTEKA. 



ocellna are small patches of hrowTi, the latter being a continuation of the dorsal 

 brown streak. Cilia gray, sjieckled with fuscous. 



Hindwing: light brown, the hair pencil-fold edged with black; underside the 

 same. 



Underside forewing: grayish-fuscous, creamy-white below fold. 



The hindwing and underside of both wings are the same in male and female 

 specimens. 



Seven specimens: Iowa, Gillette, Ac. Cat., Nos. 36 and 46; 

 West Manitoba ; Kansas ; Cincinnati, Ohio, June 17th, Miss Braun ; 

 Pluminer's Island, Md., June, A. Busck ; Elk Grove, 111., June 

 2oth, K. L. McElhose. 



Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mas. and Miss Braun's collection. 



Prateoteras torontana sp. uov. 



Expanse 20 mm. 



Head, palpi and thorax light brown ; outer joint of palpi darker brown ; an- 

 tenna gray; legs whitish-cinereous, dusted with brown. 



Forewing: yellowish-gray, dusted with brown. A brown crescent-shaped 

 streak from middle of costa to apex, enclosing a costal patch of pure white, the 

 costa in this patch dotted with three large and five small brown dots. The brown 

 crescent streak is broadest on costa, narrower on lower curve, and at the apex it 

 broadens, involving all the space above the indentation of termen. The inner 

 half of Gosta, before the crescent, is bordered also with pure white, in wliich there 

 are about six brown dots on extreme edge, and a line of three or four below on 

 upper edges of cell. Cilia brown at apex, white below. 



Hindwing: cinereous, speckled with brown, narrowly shaded with dark brown 

 at outer edge and base of cilia, outer ends of cilia whitish, light whitish-brown, 

 with a pure white spot in apex, cut by a narrow submarginal daik brown line. 



Underside forewing: smoky brown, dark brown at apex and narrowly at ter- 

 men, white costal patches and brown costal dots repeated. 



One specimen : Toronto, Ont,, June 5th ; collected by Arthur 

 Gibson ; received from Dr. Fletcher, 



Proteoleras naracana sp. nov. 



Esjianse 16-20 mm. 



Head : brown, lighter in front; face white; palpi white, shaded with black on 

 outside and upper edge; antenna light brown, basal joint brown, with a white 

 spot on posterior side; thorax white, with a pair of joined olivaceous spots on 

 front and a patch of same color on posterior end, patagia white, with yellow and 

 brown scales at base and near outer end; abdomen fuscous, lateral tufts on anal 

 segment white, anal tuft fuscous; legs yellowish-white, banded and dusted with 

 blackish-brown. 



Forewing: a white streak from base to outer fifth on upper part of wing; its 

 lower edge runs from middle of base, slightly above fold and parallel to it, 

 nearly to middle of wing, then goes obliquely upward to costa at outer fifth, it is 

 indented by a semi-circular depression at the beginning of the upward angle be- 

 yond which its lower edge is overlaid with gray, and is bounded by a horizontal 



