256 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi vii. 



Sannifioidea exitiosa. The figures are good and cannot be mistaken 

 for anything else. 



Calasesia, gen. nov. 



Palpi upturned with appressed scales and reaching top of head ; third joint long, 

 slender. Antennse thickened at apical half to a slender club, simple. Legs scaled ; 

 hind legs with small tufts at end of tibiae above ; no tarsal tufts. Body tapering to a 

 point; anal tuft slight, straight. Fore- wings with II veins ; 2-11 free from cell ; 5 

 absent ; 7-8 not stalked ; 12 from base. Hind wings with vein 2 from cell ; 3 just 

 before end ; 5 from middle ; vein retreating, 6-7. Type, Pyrrhotcenia coccinea. 



Calasesia coccinea Ben ten. 



Pyrrhotcenia coccinea Beutenmuller, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Vol. VI, 189S, p. 

 241. 



This species was wrongly placed by me in the genus Pyrrhotania, 

 but after examination of the type find that it is structurely different 

 from that genus. It comes near Paranthrene of Europe and Zenodoxus 

 of North America. 



Sesia asilipennis Wilscm. 



Boisduval in the Suites a Buffon, Nat. Hist. Lepid. Het. I, 1874, 

 p. 391, credits himself as being the author of this species and refers to 

 Guerin-Meneville, Regne Animal, pi. 84, figure 3. The date of this 

 volume is 1844, and unless Boisduval described this species somewhere 

 else, previous to 1835, Wilson must be credited as being the author. 

 He gives a good uncolored figure of the male of Sesia asilipennis in his 

 Treatise, Ins. Gen. and Syst. Encyclop. Brit. 1835, PL CCXXXVI, 

 fig. 12. It is the same insect described as Tarsa bombycifortnis, by 

 Walker, Troehiliiiw vespipenne, by Herrick-Schaffer, from China, and 

 Trochiliiim denudainm by Harris. The synonymy now stands as follows: 



Tarsa asilipennis JViison. 



Sesia asilipennis WiLSON, Treat. Lis. Gen. & Syst. Encyl. Brit. 1835, PI. 

 CCXXXVI, fig. 12. 



Troc/iilium denudatum Harris, Am. Jour. Sc. & Arts, Vol. XXXVI, 1839, 

 p. 310. 



Trochilium vespipenne, Herrich-Schaeffer, Aussereurop, Schmett. 1850-58, 

 p. 57, fig. 217. 



Tarsa bonibycifortnis Walker, Cat. Lep. B. Mus. pt. VIII, 1856, p. 61. 



I 



