COMRADE AND TRIPLE SPOTTED MOTHS- 233 



or the Comrade in the postscript to my communication on these 

 insects (Trans. N. Y. S. Ag. Soc. vol. xiii, p. 187). This moth is 

 of the same size with that of the Palmer worm and has the same 

 black dots on the middle and apex of the fore wings, but the 

 ground color of these wings is so very dissimilar as to separate it 

 at once from that species. 



Tub Comrade of the Palmer worm moth has the fore wings dark brown on 

 their inner sides and their outer half white, often tinged with tawny yellowish, 

 and sprinkled with minute black atoms. When the insect is at rest this white 

 color forms a broad stripe along each side. The inner edge of this stripe is 

 well defined, and the stripe occupies all that part of the wing which is outside 

 of the two outer dots of the four black ones near the middle of the wing, these 

 two dots forming indentations upon its inner edge. Posteriorly the white 

 stripe is gradually narrowed and ends in the fringe slightly forward of the tip; 

 the fringe being black at the tip and yellowish white inside of this, becoming 

 pale dusky towards the inner angle of the wing. On their under sides the fore 

 wings are smoky and the fringe is blackish at the tip and pale dull yellow on 

 each side of this. In all other points this moth is quite similar to that of the 

 palmer worm. 



We have several other New-York species pertaining to the 

 genus ChcBtochilus. One of these is occasionally met with the 

 latter part of June in the yards about our houses. It also is of 

 an ash-gray color and has a white band near the tips of its fore 

 wings and three small pale yellowish spots on their outer 

 edge beyond the middle, from which circumstance I propose 

 naming it 



The triple spotted, ( C. trimaculcllas'). It measures 0.G5 across the wings 

 when spread, is ash-gray and very glossy, the fore wings paler on the inner 

 ba-al portion, black at their tips and on the outer margin towards their tips, 

 and with a broad blackish streak through the middle, not reaching to the base. 

 The surface of the fore wings is sparsely sprinkled with whitish scales, which 

 forward of the tips become more numerous and condensed, forming an angu- 

 lated white band, very obvious to the naked eye, shaped like the letter V with 

 its angle towards the tip of the wing. This band ends on the outer margin in 

 a somewhat triangular pale yellow spot, with a smaller spot of the same color 

 beyond it, almost on the tip, and another forward of it, nearly on the middle 

 of the outer edge. The fringe is black, with a row of small whitish spots on 

 its base and larger ones opposite them on the outer edge. The hind wings are 

 sooty, their outer margin broadly whitish except at the tip, and their fringe 

 pale dusky with a band on its middle formed of black spots transversely con- 

 fluent. The wings on their under sides are dark gray, the anterior pair slightly 

 freckled with whitish and on their outer edge showing the three pale yellow 

 spots which occur above. The body and legs are silveiy white, the latter 

 blackish on their outer sides with a white band at each of the joints of the feet. 

 The feelers which project forward of the head are rather short and thick, of a 



