134 Journal New York Extomological Society, [^'o'- ^^^ 



prised to find examples of this species masquerading among the 



Notodontids. 



Demas electa, new species. 



Ground color bluish ash gray, the maculation black or blackish. Head 

 whitish, collar gray. Thorax crossed transversely by alternate bands of 

 blacl^ and white. Abdom«n smok-y. Primaries with the broad sub-terminal 

 area of the palest, least powdered ground, the darkest area extending through 

 the lower half of wing from base to t.p. line. There is a black broken basal 

 line and basal streak. Median lines single, black, narrow, very close together, 

 irregular, an outward tooth from the t.a. line joining an inward curve from 

 the t.p., and thus connecting the two in the submedian interspace. The s.t. 

 space is very wide and is outwardly limited by the slightly irregular and 

 dentate s.t. line which is itself outwardly defined by a whitish shade. A 

 terminal blackish line at base of fringes. Orbicular small, round, whitish, 

 with a black central dot. Reniform oblong, narrow, not well defined, whitish 

 with a distinct central blackish lunate mark. Secondaries blackish, semi- 

 diaphanous, fringes whitish, preceded and cut by blackish. Beneath smoky, 

 powdery, secondaries paler with traces of two diffuse transverse lines and a 

 small discal lunule. 



Expands 37-40 mm. := 1.50-1.60 inches. 



Habitat. — Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 31, 1909, Mr. J. B. Wallis. 



Two very fine females, through Mr. Arthur Gibson of the Central 



Experimental Farm. As compared with the previously described 



species this is darker and decidedly blue gray, much better marked 



than flavicornis, with which it agrees in the connected median lines. 



The latter character and the more contrasting maculation distinguish 



it from infanta, than which it is also a somewhat smaller species. 



The type is in my collection, the paratype has been returned to Mr. 



Gibson. 



ANTITYPE Hbn. 



Under this term Hampson lists the species with lashed eyes that 

 have been heretofore termed Folia in European catalogues. No 

 American species are referred to the genus by Hampson, but a series 

 of specimens lately received from California seem best referred to 

 it. The characters other than the lashed eyes are given by Hampson 

 as follows: "Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, 

 short, the 2nd joint thickly clothed with hair in front; frons smooth, 

 rounded, eyes large; antennae of male typically ciliated; thorax 

 clothed chiefly with scales, or with hair and hair-like scales, the 

 pro- and meta-thorax with spreading crests; pectus clothed with long 

 hair; tibiae frinfred with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal 



