Packard.] 44 [October 17, 



Macaria sex-maculata n. sp. 



3 , ? . Head pale gray, dusted with blackish scales. Palpi stout, 

 bushy, with darker scales, extending well beyond the front. Thorax 

 and laody concolorous with the wings. Fore wings of a uniform stone 

 gray, with brown scales, and six large conspicuous dark-brown 

 patches, four on the costa, and two geminate ones on the middle of 

 the outer third of the wing ; the inner costal spot is nearly obsolete ; 

 the third one connects with an indistinct line, and goes straight to 

 the inner edge, including the inner edge of the second square mesial 

 spot, becoming obsolete toward the inner angle. Margin narrowly 

 edged with brown ; fringe dark gray, with darker nervular streaks, 

 which become obsolete towards the inner edge. Hind wings paler, 

 with a slight luteous tinge, a slight discal dot, and two obscure diffuse 

 outer brownish lines. Fringe long, interrupted by dark spots. 



Beneath, the costa and nervules are ochreous, with dusky mottled 

 flecks ; edge of the wings paler ; just before the edge a broad dusky 

 band, most distinct just below the costa, bounded within by a distinct 

 dark line. Hind wings with a rather broad, diffuse, submarginal band. 

 Edge of the wings flecked with white. 



Length of the body .35 ; fore wing .45 inch. 



This species differs from any more southern form by its smaller 

 size, its dull, obscure, stone gray color ; the two square, mesial, twin 

 spots, the two outer obscure lines, and the double line on the hind 

 wings. Also by the want of any discal dot on the fore wings, and 

 the absence of the intradiscal lines. 



Square Island, Labrador, July 14. Occasionally seen. 



Scotosia dubitata var. 



? . Specimens of this species, which were collected in Hudson's 

 Bay Territory by Barnston, and also in Canada, were referred by Mr. 

 Walker in the Catalogue of the Lepidoptera in the British Museum, 

 to a variety of the common European dubitata. 



Our Labrador species agrees well with a specimen from the Fish 

 River Lakes in Northern Maine, and they seem to present indications 

 of a climatal variety of the European form. We have compared 

 a Labrador and a Maine specimen with a single English specimen. 



It is a large, pale cinereous species, with a reddish tinge. The fore 

 wings are crossed by three reddish zigzag bands ; the basal one being 

 curved angularly on the costa. Beyond are three very zigzag lines, 

 interrupted by two paler bands ; the middle reddish band is less 

 curved than the basal one, accompanied on the inner side by a dusky 

 band ; this line contracts slightly opposite the small, dark, narrow, 

 oblique, discal spot, which is nearer the line than in the European 



