Packard.] 60 [October 17, 



Penthina murina n. sp. 



Mouse color, dusted thickly -with tawny scales, head and thorax 

 darker. Palpi blackish towards the tip ; third joint black. Anten- 

 na3 brown, minutely annulated with white. Fore wings mouse color, 

 with pale, tawny, obscure, small costal spots, and an obscure trans- 

 verse, diffuse pale band, extending from just beyond the middle of 

 the costa to the internal mai'gln. There are no other markings. The 

 apical portion of the costa is pale luteous, concolorous with the fi-inge, 

 which on the outer half is dusky on the apex, sending an interrupted 

 line towards the internal angle, with a similar dusky line at the base. 

 Hind wings pale, becoming dusky towards the apex, concolorous with 

 the hind legs. Abdomen dusky cinereous, anal tuft paler. Fore 

 tarsi dusky cinereous, ringed with pale luteous. 



Length of the body .30; fore wing .36 inch. 



A common species at the Straits of Belle Isle. It is dull-colored 

 mouse-brown, with lighter, fine scales, and paler spots on the fore 

 costa, with a broad diffuse band from just beyond the middle of the 

 costa to the internal margin, by which characters it may be known. 

 It belongs to Lederer's genus Heterognomon, but does not differ gen- 

 erically from the other species mentioned above, referred to PentJiina. 



July 14. Caribou Island. 



Penthina moestana Wocke. 



" Finland," (Wocke); Labi-ador, Mdschler, 1. c. p. 199. 



Penthina turfosana H.-Sch. 



Finland (Staudinger); Labrador, Moschler. p. 199. 



"Penthina n. sp." Christoph, 1. c. p. 313. Moschler, 1. c. p. 381. 

 "Near Sauciana." Labrador. 



Ablabia pratana HUbner. 



" Labrador," Christoph, 1. c. p. 313. Moschler, 1. c. p. 380. 



Anehylopera plagosana Clemens. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. p. 417. 



March, 1864. 



Abundant on the exposed low plains on Caribou Island, occurring 

 rarely at Square Island. 



Halonota Paekardiana Clem., 1. c 417. 

 Caribou Island. Common. 



Antithesia bipartitana Clem. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1860. 

 346. (1861.) Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. ii. p. 418. March, 1864. 

 Specimens from Labrador are a little larger, but do not differ es- 



