176 GROTE & ROBINSON. 



could hardly be identical with either of them. This paper of Dr. 

 Boisduval's ends with a list of the Noctuidae of California collated from 

 M. Gueuee's works and descriptions of two new species of Brephos, 

 viz : B. californicus, Boisd., and B. melanis, Boml. p. 88. 



From a perusal of this paper of Dr. Boisduval's it will be seen, that the 

 acquaintance of that distinguished Entomologist with his subject ha? 

 not greatly increased since 1852, the date of his first paper; while. a 

 knowledge of American entomological publications since that date 

 would have obviated alike the redescription of several species and the 

 appearance of refuting for the first time many errors of the older 

 writers already well understood and corrected in this country. 



DESCEIPTION OF AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA, No. 5. 



BY A. R. GROTE & C. T. ROBINSON. 



BOMBYCIDAE. 



LITHOSIINAE. 

 LITHOSIA, Fabr. 

 Lithosia cephalica n. s. 



% 9 . — White. Primaries and secondaries above white or whitish, 

 immaculate. Primaries beneath dusky. Head entirely i'ulvous yel- 

 low. Body parts above whitish, beneath with the legs dusky. Exp. 

 24 to 26 mm. 



Ilahitat. — Texas (Belfrage). Form of L. casta Sanhorn, but a 

 smaller insect, dlff"ering by the discolorous head. 



ARCTIINAE. 

 We have received from Texas specimens of a moth with dun-colored 

 semitransparent wings, reminding us of Kuphanessa, but with plu- 

 mose antennae and other characters more nearly allying it to the 

 Arctian genus .Euchaetes, for which we propose the name: 



Vanessodes clarus. 



While the eyes are large and globose, the head itself is relatively 

 small. The ciypeus is narrow and its sides comparatively straight. 

 The frontal scales converge from the sides of the ciypeus, while those 

 from the occiputal region depend forwards between the antennae. 

 The labial palpi are divaricate, exceed the front and are coarsely 

 scaled so as to conceal the joints. In this respect the moth does not 



