160 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Hind wing blaclcish-gray ; cilia paler, with a broad darker line close 

 to base ; under side dark gray, mottled outwardly with black in middle of 

 wing; cih'a preceded by a fine ochreous line. Under side fore wing 

 smoky-black, dotted with cream-white on outer half of costa. 



Three specimens: Oak Station, Allegheny Co, Penn., Sept. i, Fred. 

 Marloff; Pittsburg, Penna., Sept. 12 and 2r, Carnegie Museum, Ace. 

 No. 2960, through Dr. W. G. Holland, in whose honour the species is 

 named, and to whom I am indebted for the privilege of studying and 

 identifying a large nuniber of most interesting specimens of Micro- 

 Lepidoptera. 

 '~~^Commophila contrastana, sp. nov. 



Expanse, S > 20 mm.; 9,21 mm. 



Head and palpi cream-white; antenna, basal joint white, shaded with 

 brown ; outer joints light whitish-fuscous ; thorax and patagia purplish- 

 black, with an iridescent blue and red reflection ; abdomen and legs 

 ochreous-cream, .latter shaded in front with brown. 



Fore wing : Upper half and outer third cream-white ; a sharply- 

 defined band of bluish-black, with an iridescent reflection, as on the thorax, 

 occupies the dorsal edge of the wing. This band begins on costa, cover- 

 incr the inner sixth ; it covers the basal area, the outer edge, is outwardly 

 oblique to lower third of wing, where it curves and continues parallel to 

 dorsum ; the band is slightly wider at outer end, and terminates before the 

 ocellic space. Paralleling the apex in the outer fourth is a shade of light 

 olivaceous-fuscous, with a cluster.of leaden scales before apex, divided into 

 four lines by shining-cream strigulas from the costa. Between middle and 

 outer third there is a quadrate spot of same shade on costa. Cilia cream- 

 white. 



Hind wing light brownish-fuscous, darker around margin; cilia whitish; 

 under side ochreous-white. Under side fore wing light ochreous-brovvn ; 

 shining gray-white below fold. 



One J, Oak Station, Allegheny Co., Penn., May 23, Fred. Marloff; 

 one $, New Haven, Conn., June 7, A. E. Britton. 



This species is very closely allied to C. fuscodorsana, K., and may 

 prove to be the eastern form of this western species. The dorsal band in 

 fuscodorsana sends a spur up to end of cell at its outer end; the strigula- 

 tions in apex are much darker and limited to two well-defined broader 

 lines. The shade of the dorsal- band is fuscous-brown. 



Correction.— On pages 5 and 6 rt«/'^ read, "University of Kansas" 

 in the place of " Kansas Academy of Science." 



(To be continued.) 



