80 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Vol. xiv. 



.-//'. />., foeminalis, new variety. g . Fore wing dark slaty gray as in the nor- 

 mal female with a black discal mark and one on submedian interspace. Hind wing 

 immaculate white. 



3 rj', Palm Beach, Fla., January 25, 1900 (H. G. Dyar). 

 Type no. 9494, U. S. Xat. Mus. 



.11'. i ., masculinalis, new variety. 9- Entirely white, the fore wing with only 

 slight gray shading on costa, outer margin, discal and submedian spots as in the 

 normal male. 



2 9> Cocoanut Grove, Fla. (E. A. Schwarz). 



Type no. 9495, U. S. Xat. Mus. 



The larva appears to be unknown." It is probably aquatic, as the 

 adults are taken resting on leaves of water plants and flying from one 

 to another when disturbed, at considerable distances from shore. 



Nymphula allionealis Walker. 

 Paraponyx allionealis Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., xii, 458, 1859. 

 Hydrocampa itealis Walker Cat. Brit. Mus., xvii, 45S, 1859. 

 Paraponyx cretacealis Lederer, Wien. ent. Mon., vii, 4S4, 1863. 

 Paraponyx plenilinealis Grote, Pap., i, 17, 1881. 

 Paraponyx cretacealis Grote, New ch. list No. Am. moths, 54, 1882. 

 Paraponyx plenilinealis Grote, New ch. list No. Am. moths, 54, 1882. 

 Hydrocampa allionealis Fernald, Smith List Lep. Bor. Am. no. 4171, 1891. 

 Paraponyx allionealis Hart, Bull. 111. Sta. lab. Nat. Hist., iv, 173, 1 895. 

 Nymphula allionealis llampson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 142, 1897. 

 Nymphula itealis llampson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 142, 1897. 

 Nymphula plenilinealis Hampson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 142, 1897. 

 Nymphula allionealis Fernald, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4491, 1903. 



$ . Inner margin long, outer margin convex, not oblique. Wings white to 

 fuscous brown, rarely pure white, more often variously tinted with yellowish brown, 

 rarely darkly colored ; lines narrow, fuscous ; fringe dark spotted ; a narrow terminal 

 line ; a broader slightly waved band within ; an irregular oblique outer line, bent in 

 below discal dot and pointed out on submedian fold ; an obscure inner line. Hind 

 wing with a faint inner line, discal dot, two parallel lines beyond it, a waved sub- 

 marginal line and dots on fringe. Below the marks repeated more faintly. Expanse, 

 14 to 17 mm. 



9 • Wings more pointed, outer margin straight. Marks as in the male ; ground 

 color generally white, overspread with brown as in the male but more variable' than 

 that sex. Some specimens are entirely white, the marks all obliterated although in 

 part traceable, very faintly brown. Others are all obscured by brownish gray, the 

 markings obliterate, even less traceable than in the white form. 



Georgia (Walker); Wisconsin, September (Grote) ; Urbana, 111., 



Max 29, June 7, 29, July 6, 7, 23, 27 (Hart). 



