140 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



U. S. Nat. Mus. Type No. 7784. 



Ac/eris fragariana, sp. nov. — Head and palpi dull smoky black, tips 

 of scales gray, giving a mottled appearance, prothoracic legs and under 

 side of thorax the same ; the gray colour predominates on inside and 

 under side of palpi. Thorax, patagia and fore wings yellowish brown. 

 Scales on thorax long, arranged in a well-defined tuft. Fore wing : the 

 inner half, including the base, is of ground colour, mottled by four evenly 

 spaced, transverse, narrow, interrupted bands of a shade darker brown. 

 The dorsal margin, within this space, beginning just beyond the base, is 

 overlaid with dark blue-gray scales, formed into short vertical bars, 

 between the bars the ground colour is darker brown. This dorsal band 

 extends out to anal angle, but merges beyond the middle with the darker 

 outer half The latter is sharply defined by line beginning on costa, just 

 before the middle to the dorsum, oblique and curving slightly outwards. 

 The lower two-thirds of this line is of darker brown raised scales. Adjoin- 

 ing this line outwardly is a band of mixed rust brown, gray-blue and dark 

 brown scales ; in this band, where it touches costa, are two small dark 

 brown costal spots ; this oblique band continues down and merges into 

 dorsal dark band ; beyond this band on the costa is a small triangular 

 patch of ground colour scales, with a short oblique streak of d ark brown 

 on costa just before outer end of patch. Beyond this on costa, and just 

 before the apex, is an almost circular patch of dark gray-blue scales, 

 bounded by short raised scales tipped with black. Below this circular 

 patch the general colour is lighter, the lighter colour circling the patch on 

 outer side and running up to costa at apex. Beginning at apex and con- 

 tinuing to outer margin, just above anal angle, is a perfectly straight vertical 

 line of black raised scales, interrupted by a short break one-third below 

 costa ; and opposite this break; closer to outer margin, is a short line of 

 the same scales, slightly overlapping the inner line at the lower end, and 

 continuing up to apex, roughly margining the cilia. At the inner third, 

 just above dorsal margin, on lower median line, is a large cluster of raised 

 scales, dark brown mixed with black ; above this, a little nearer to base, 

 on median line, is a small cluster of brown raised scales, with a black dot 

 in centre ; a third small cluster is between these two, but a little beyond 

 them. These three clusters are all on the inner yellowish-brown half of 

 wing, the first mentioned and largest resting on the dark dorsal band. 

 (.'ilia long, mottled light and dark brown at apex, with a scale or two of 

 black. This colour continues to middle of outer margin, where it gradually 



