Tackard.] 56 [October IT, 



It is allied to Scluphila osseana of Europe, and may be easily rec- 

 ognized by its chalky white wings, and dusky scales clouding the sur- 

 face at the base, in the middle, and towards the apex of the wing; 

 sometimes the wing is nearly white, with only a dusky, diffuse, discal 

 spot. Legs brown, with a deep olive reflection. 



Okak, Weiz. Hopedale, August 3. Not infrequent. 



Pandemis leueophaleratana n. sp. 



Pale cinereous. Head very hairy ; palpi large and bushy. Fore 

 wings cinereous, with reddish-brown scales ; checkered minutely on 

 the costa with white dots, alternating with very oblique brown streaks, 

 and directed outward. Just before the falcate apex are two parallel 

 white short lines ; a large white patch on the internal angle of the 

 Aving, reaching two-thii'ds of the way to the costa, not extending to 

 the outside of the fringe, and on the inside presenting a well-defined 

 once-angulated mai-gin. Apex much elongated, very falcate, fringe 

 on the costa blackish, white at base ; below the apex the fringe is 

 white, interrupted by a black line just under the ajicx. Hind wings 

 uniformly cinereous. 



Beneath, paler, hind wings paler than the primaries, costa white, 

 interrupted with dark linear spots, apex black-brown, with a mesial 

 longitudinal white streak, and below suddenly white. Legs ashen ; 

 tarsi annulated with white. 



Length .26 ; fore wings .27 inch. 



Allied to P. heparana of EurojDe. It may be known by its very 

 falcate primaries ; the large white patch on the internal margin, and 

 the two small white costal lines just before the apex. 



Hopedale, Labrador, August 3. Not common. 



Conchylis chalcana n. sp. 



Front bushy, palpi long and thick, middle of front white, on each 

 side broadly margined with yellow ; palpi ochreous on the sides ; an- 

 tennae dark, thorax with pale and ochreous scales, wings whitish gray, 

 with an ochreous band and patches. Base of the wing dusky ; be- 

 yond, a broad whitish band, succeeded by an oblique bronzed, ochre- 

 ous band, which is dark on the costa, with dark scales in the middle 

 of the wing. The band is deeply acutely indented on the submedian 

 space ; this is succeeded by a whitish band, with an interrupted row 

 of deep ochreous patches, consisting of a costal and internal spot, the 

 latter triangular, and situated on the inner edge, and margined wit)i 

 blackish on the edge, with a small mesial spot, with scattei'ed deep 

 ochreous scales. Beyond, is a dusky shade, going from the costal spot 

 to the inner angle. Margin whitish, fringe whitish, black at base. 



