1907.] Kcarjott, Micwlcpidoplcra jrom the Black Mouittuina, N. C, 155 



Salebria contatella Orote. 



Two specimens bred from larviie on locust, received May 28 and June 

 6. Moths issued July 4 and 7. ^Mature larva agrees with description by 

 Packard, p. 361, Fifth Re])ort of Entomological Commission; but just 

 before pupating the green becomes dull red. Cocoon, flattened oval, ^pun 

 among debris at bottom of breeding jar. 



Platyptilia Carolina sp. nov. 

 Plate VIII, Fig. 17. 



Expanse 22 to 25 mm. 



Head, palpi, thorax and fore wing clay yellow. The fore wing is minutely dotted 

 with a darker shade and the costa from inner third to outer fourth is dusted with 

 blackish scales. There is a dark brown dot below costa, about a third from base, 

 and another on lower lobe just within and below inner end of cleft; on the apex of 

 the second lobe is a similar spot. There is a preciliate line of blackish brown on the 

 termens of each lobe; a paler line separates another but less dark line from the long 

 scales of the cilia, which are pale purplish fuscous. The hind wing is the same 

 color as the fore wing but with a faint pinkish tinge, with brownish lines before the 

 cilia, and a tiny black dot near outer end of cilia of third lobe. The body is .shaded 

 with brown posteriorly and on the sides, with a few whitish scales in the lateral tufts. 

 Legs bleached .straw color, dusted with brown. 



I have a darker specimen, where the ground color is more thickly pow- 

 dered with brown, and all of the dark lines and spots are accentuated. 

 This specimen shows a tiny brown dot at the base of the first lobe, just 

 above the dot on the second lobe; the hind margin cilia are also mixed 

 with black scales on the outer half. Three specimens, "Valley," May 27 

 to June 26. 



^ Exartema hippo castanum sp. nov. 

 Plate VIII, Fig. 2. 



Expanse 21 to 22 mm. 



Head olivaceous brown in which are mixed blackish brown scales, face cream 

 color. Palpi cream color, outside of tuft on second joint stained with blackish 

 fuscous on inner half of upper edge and the lower outer end of tuft; apical joint 

 black with a tiny whitish dot on extreme apex. Antennte fuscous, paler within. 

 Thorax pinkish brown in front, gray in the middle divided by a black line, behind 

 which are pink scales tipped with white; the tuft is of long fuscous scales tipped 

 with pink, and with several white scales in.serted; patagia fuscous and pink with 

 lateral scales white. Abdomen, first joint white, others fuscous on upper side, 

 white on sides, ochreous white beneath, tuft ochreous. 



Fore wing with the usual Exartema scroll-work. The inner fascia transversely 



