86 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



shining gray-fuscous, anal tuft dull ochreous; legs whitish, banded and powdered 

 with bronzy-black. 



Forewing : pale pinkish-cream, the ground color of the outer third pale whitish- 

 pink. The basal area extends beyond third on both margins. The costa is 

 marked with two small black dots close to base; a large rectangular blackish 

 spot in middle and two or three small dots between the latter and middle fascia. 

 There are two small blackish dots on fold close to base and a larger dot on dor- 

 sum near base. The outer edge below fold is speckled with black. The middle 

 fascia begins as a large square blackish spot on costa, obliquely outward ; below 

 it, inwardly, an olivaceous fascia continues to dorsum. Its edges are dentate, 

 on the fold and on the outer edge at dorsum are black dots. The blackish 

 middle (;ostal spot sends an obscure streak of black into dorsum before tornus; 

 on the middle of the wing it is Interrupted by a patch of shining white, and a 

 similar larger pinkish patch covers the dorsum between the two fascial ends. 

 A conspicuous fascia leaves costa before apex, curving into termeu at upper 

 third, diminishing below; is black on costa and before apex, with a small oliva- 

 ceous patch between and below. It encloses a large spot of shining white, mot- 

 tled with gray and olivaceous. Above it is a patch of pink with two dark costal 

 dashes. There is a small brown shade in apex, with two dark costal spots before 

 apex on a pink ground. Terminal line black, cilia ochreous, outwardly dotted 

 with black. 



Hind wing: whitish-gray, darker around margin; cilia paler; underside the 

 same, shaded and dotted with dark brown below costa. Underside forewing 

 smoky brown, with costal and ciliate spots repeated. 



Twenty specimens : Essex County Park, N. J., Aug. 16th to 

 Sept. 11th, light trap. 



Plialonia zoxeana sp. nov. 



Expanse 8-11 mm. 



Head: dark gray ; palpi whitish within, dark brownish-gray outside ; antenna 

 gray; thorax gray-black, tips of patagia and posterior tuft whitish; abdomen 

 above fuscous, tuft ochreous; legs whitish, banded with blackish. 



Forewing: basal area shining, pinkish-white, costal, dorsal and basal margins 

 shaded with olivaceous, and costa dotted with blackish line, a black dot on dor- 

 sum near base and a larger vertical streak at lower half of outer edge. The mid- 

 dle fascia is olivaceous-brown, edges irregular, edged with black on costa and a 

 black dash on fold, outwardly, in middle is a short vertical black line. The sub- 

 apical fascia combines with a black patch before it, in a large rounded black spot, 

 divided by a line of shining gray scales. Below is a patch of olivaceous-brown, 

 and between these dark shades and the middle fascia is an irregular fascia of 

 shining pink, dotted with black on costa and enclosing an olivaceous patch on 

 dorsum, the latter containing three black dorsal dots. Before the black terminal 

 line is a narrow olivaceous brown line, and before this a line of shining pink and 

 gray scales. Cilia divided into four ochreous and five blackish spots of about 

 equal size. 



Hindwing: dark gray, cilia paler, with a broad, darker line near base; under- 

 side the same, dotted with fuscous between 5 and 6. 



Underside forewing: smoky black, with costal and ciliate spots repeated. 



