342 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



Tornos abjectarius Hulst (Eiit. Am., ii, 192, 1887). 



This was originally described as a dark variety of Tornos ruhigi- 

 nosus Morr. ^= scolopacmaria Gn., but in Dyar's Catalogue it appears 

 as a distinct species. A rather long series of specimens shows it to 

 be simply the male of scolopacinaria, and indeed Guenee in his 

 description refers to the male as being reddish-brown, while he 

 speaks of the female as being yellowish-testaceous; furthermore, 

 rubiginosus, long since placed by Hulst himself (Ent. Am., iii, 11, 

 1887) as a synonym scolopacinaria appears to be abjectarius. Abbot 

 also figures both sexes as well as the larva on "Coreopsis [^Priymila] 

 auriculata or probably grandiflora," and from this Packard secured 

 his illustration of the larva on plate 13, fig. 3, of his Monograph. 

 In the text he also speaks of the variation in color of the adults, but 

 he does not apply the two colors to the diflferent sexes. Of my 

 thirty specimens fifteen are pale yellow females, thirteen are brown 

 males, while two males are intermediate between the extremes. 



This species is apparently common in Texas, and extends north- 

 ward to Kansas and Missouri and eastward to Alabama and Florida. 



Seliclosema delicatum Hulst (Can. Ent., xxx, 106, 1900). 



This was described from a male and a supposed female. The 

 former is not in my possession, bus is evidently a distinct species 

 and being a male is probably also correctly referred to Selidosema. 

 The supposed female type is before me, but instead of being a female 

 of delicatum it is a male of Stergamatcea inornata Hulst. The 

 description of Stergaviatoia is from a female only, so 1 append a 

 generic diagnosis of the male. 



Palpi abruptly upturned, closely appressed to the head and ex- 

 tending a little beyond the somewhat projecting front; tongue well 

 developed ; antennae simple, filiform ; thorax hairs, the patagia pro- 

 duced into tufts of fine long hairs much as in Spodolepis ; abdomen 

 smooth ; hind tibia slightly thickened, with two pair of spurs and a 

 hair pencil. Venation as in the female. 



Cleora formosata Hulst (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxiii, 357, 1896). 



This species was described from a single female from Colorado as a 

 Cleora, but on the type label Hulst wrote "Selidosema ; " neverthe- 

 less, perhaps, for want of a male, he retains the species in Cleora in his 

 portion of Dyar's Catalogue. Male specimens at hand from Stockton, 

 Utah (Spalding), shows it to possess no hair pencil on the posterior 

 tibia, so the species may now with certainty be referred to Selidosema. 



