AmeriqAna 



VOL. VI. 



BROOKLYN, JULY, 1890. 



No. 7. 



NE^A^ SPECIES OF TiENIOCAMPINI. 



BY JOHN B. SMITH. 



Since the publication of my Revision of some of the Taeniocam- 

 pid genera (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xii, 455-496, 1889-90) a number 

 of species which merit description have come into my hands. It is 

 matter of regret that a monographic work should be so soon made 

 incomplete by describing new species, but there seems to be no help 

 for it in the present state of our science. From the appearance of 

 collections coming in, I believe that fully one-third more than are at 

 present known will be added to our list of Nodiuda: in the next live 

 years, and that our lists then will be very much different in arrange- 

 ment from those at present in use. 



Taeniocampa carminata sp. nov. — Head and thorax a luteous brown, with 

 a more or less evident carmine washing, most distinct in the female of the 

 specimens before me. Primaries: ground color rather a pale luteous, more 

 or less completely suffused with carmine. In the specimens before me the 

 ground color is faintly visible through the centre of the wing only in the 

 female; in the male all the interspaces up to the terminal space are distinctly 

 luteous, while the latter space and the veins are carmine. The usual macu- 

 lation is obsolete. Secondaries blackish fuscous with yellow fringes. Be- 

 neath yellowish fuscous, with a more or less obvious reddish suffusion. 

 Expands 1.40 inches; 35 mm. 



Hab. — Colorado (Bruce). 



The vestiture is entirely hairy, forming no thoracic tufts. An- 

 tennae of male lengthily bipectinated, of 9 simple. The primaries 

 have the apex rectangular, the outer margin rounded, and thus the 

 species belongs to the riifida group, from which it differs in the dis- 

 tinctly roughened front, which is not, however, protuberant. The 

 species is unique in appearance and unlike any other of our species 



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