70 Journal New York Entomological Society. [VoI. xvii. 



Renia exserta, new species. 



Dull smoky gray or luteous, sometimes with a reddish tint. Palpi darker at 

 sides. Head and thorax concolorous ; abdomen scarcely paler, with narrow paler 

 edgings to segments. Primaries rather evenly colored, the basal area on the whole a 

 little paler. T. a. line rigidly upright, yellowish, outwardly shaded with smoky 

 brown. T. p. line even, yellowish or whitish, with a broad outcurve over cell and a 

 less marked incurve below, just enough dark edging to the line to make it stand out 

 conspicuously. S. t. line broken, irregular, yellowish, marked by brownish preceding 

 shades, of which those at about the middle of its course are best marked. A series 

 of small black terminal lunules. Orbicular a small, indefined yellowish blotch. 

 Reniform upright, narrow, yellowish with black dots at either end. Secondaries a 

 little paler than primaries ; a narrow, pale, median line continuing the t. p. line of 

 the fore wing across the hind wing ; a broken dusky terminal line ; between the 

 median line and the margin there is another, more indefinite and fragmentary, pale 

 line. Beneath more rusty, powdery, with extra-median and s. t. line and discal spot 

 on all wings. 



Expands, I.10-1.12 inches 1=: 27-28 mm. 



Habitat. — Trenton, Ontario, VIII, 11, John D. Evans ; London, 

 Ontario, witliout date. 



One male and female, in good condition. The female, from Lon- 

 don, has been in my collection for years and I have kept it associated 

 with flavipuiictalis for lack of companions to prove that it was not 

 merely an aberration. From whom I received it I do not now remem- 

 ber, and the label gives no indication. Recently I received a nice 

 male from Mr. Evans, and am now convinced that the species is a good 

 one, differing from all others in the genus by the very rigid t. a. line 

 and the very even, contrasting, bi-sinuate t. p. line, which is con- 

 tinued with equal distinctness across the secondaries. 



Renia tilosalis, new species. 



Ground color in the male blackish smoky throughout ; in the female the primaries 

 distinctly red-brown. Head and thorax concolorous with primaries in each sex. 

 Basal line traceable across the costal area in some, specimens. T. a. line single, a 

 little darker than the ground, often preceded by a paler or even whitish line, a little 

 irregular, slightly excurved at the middle of its course ; but as a whole nearly upright. 

 T. p. line single, narrow, darker than the ground, irregularly denticulate, followed 

 by a paler shading which, in the male, is often whitish and conspicuous, and on the 

 costa forms a distinct paler or whitish spot. S. t. line pale or whitish, very distinct 

 and almost rigid to vein 5, then much more obscure, with an inward angle followed 

 by an outcurve, and that in turn by a much less marked inward angle. In the female 

 the line is more distinct and is usually preceded by a darker shade. A series of black 

 terminal lunules, followed by a pale line at base of fringes. There is a diffuse darker, 

 almost upright median shade crossing the wing over or just within the reniform, much 

 more obvious in the female than in the male, in which it is often lost in the dark 

 ground. Orbicular round, yellowish, not outlined, tending to become lost. Reni- 



