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VOL. V. 



BROOKLYN, MAY, 1889. 



NO. 5. 



Phragmatobia assimilans, Wci/^er. 

 Bv Annie Trumbull Slosson. 



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Mr, Henry Edwards, in his preface to the supplement to "New 

 Clieck List" (Ento. Atner., March, 1888), in speaking of Walker's types 

 in the British Museum, says : "It is probable that a few of the species 

 mentioned may yet await re discovery by our entomologists, and that 

 they are fully entitled to a position in our lists."' 



I feel confident that I have reclaimed, from the doubt and suspicion 

 long surrounding it, one of these .species, and can prove its right to the 

 place in our lists given it by Mr. Edwards. 



Last May I took at light in Franconia, N, H. , on a cool evening 

 towards the last of the monih, a Bombyx which puzzled me greatly. It 

 was much like Phragmatobia rubricosa, Harris, but a good" deal larger, 

 and differing in other respects. Still I thought, at first, that it might be 

 a large female of an early brood. 



On my return to New York in the Autumn I showed the insect to 

 several entomologists, but it was new to all. One day, during the winter, 

 in glancing over Mr. Edwards' supplement I saw the name of P. assim- 

 ilans, Walk., and began to wonder if my moth might not be this long 

 sought species. The supplement refers to "Cat. B, Mus. ,//. j, p. 630.' 

 I wrote to Mr. Edwards in regard to this and was told that the reference 

 to "plate" was an error and should be "par/ j." I could find but 

 little literature on the subject. In Morris's Synopsis is given this extract 

 from Cat, B. Mus. 



"P. assimilans. Walk. Male. — Red, Antennae, testaceous. 

 Thorax with brown hairs. Wings red, veins darker. Primaries slightly 

 brown along the costa, and elsewhere indistinctly sprinkled with pale 



