Sept, igio.] Barnes-McDunnough : AMERICAN Lepidoptera. 149 



NEW SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF NORTH 

 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



By Wm. Barnes, S.B., M.D., and J. McDunnough, Ph.D., 



Decatur, III. 



Arctiid^. 



1. Apantesis sociata, new species. 



Female. — Head and thorax deep black brown ; anterior portion of thorax 

 with red band partially hidden beneath collar ; abdomen vermillion dorsally, 

 with a confluent row of black dorsal spots, beneath blackish ; primaries deep 

 chocolate thrown ; at one half distance from base an ochreous dash extends 

 from costa inwards to cubital vein, slightly angled inwardly on costa ; this 

 is followed towards apex by a small ochreous spot ; fringes concolorous with 

 wings. Secondaries vermillion, with broad irregular dark brown marginal 

 border, extending to anal angle, and similar colored spot just beyond cell. 

 Beneath, as above, rather paler. , 



Expanse, 34 mm. 



Allied to A. placcntia S. & h. but much smaller; the ochreous 

 dash on median area of primaries and the broad marginal border of 

 secondaries may serve to distinguish it from this species. It is 

 probably merely a good geographical race. 



Habitat. — Ft. Wingate, N. M. (June 16-23). I female. Type, 

 Coll. Barnes. 



2. Opharus (Phaegoptera) astur fumata, new variety. 



A long series of both sexes from Arizona differs from the type 

 form in that both wings are much more suffused with smoky brown 

 and the white bands of spots crossing primaries are considerably 

 smaller, especially in median area. Typical astur does not probably 

 extend north of Mexico. Our N. American race is sufficiently dis- 

 tinct to merit a name. Exp., male 42 mm. ; female 50 mm. 



Habitat. — Palmerlee, Ariz., Huachuca Mts., Ariz. (July 8-15). 

 Type, Coll. Barnes. 



3. Hemihyalea splendens, new name. Syn. mausueta Druce (nee H. Edw.). 



The species figured by Druce as mansucta Edw. (Biol. Cent. 

 Am. Het., PI. 10, f. i) and placed by Hampson as a subspecies of 

 labcciila Grt. proves, on examination of a good series, to be distinct. 



