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 A NEW BOMBYCIA. 



BY JOHN B. SMITH. 



Bombycia Candida sp. nov.— Ground color fuscous brown; neck yellow; 

 a black line across middle of thorax. Primaries: basal space largely white, 

 except close to thorax, and at inner margin; median space white powdered 

 in the costal region, and a broad white costal shade beyond t. p. line, nar- 

 rowing to apex. T. a. line outcurved on costa, then nearly straight to hind 

 margin. T. p. line from middle of costal margin incurved, slightly angulated 

 outwardly on median vein, thence outwardly oblique and sinuate to hind 

 margin about one-quarter from anal angle. S. t. line traceable as a vague 

 whitish shade, preceded by an equally vague blackish shade, except just 

 above the anal angle, where both white and blackish shades are obvious. 

 Beyond the t. p. line there is a rusty shade through the centre of the wing 

 to the outer margin. Narrow, irregular, transverse strigte are obvious through 

 the dark parts of the wing; a continuous black terminal line; two longitudinal 

 black dashes before apex. Secondaries fuscous to the narrow, irregular me- 

 dian line, beyond which it is more yellowish and marked with blackish, ir- 

 regular transverse strigae. Beneath yellowish fuscous, with distinct black 

 discal spots on all wings, mottled with blackish transverse striga;; primaries 

 darker outwardly. Expands 1.55 inch.; 39 mm. 



Hab. — Florida. 



A single male .specimen from Mrs. Slosson's collection. It is 

 an easily recognizable species, very different from anything else 

 known to me, though apparently similar to B. magnijica Strk. in 

 type. It is not congeneric with semicircidaris or improvisa, but I 

 leave it with these for the present, as I do not know whether it does 

 not agree with some of the European genera into which Cyiuato- 

 phora (Bombycia Grt.), has been divided. The body is slight, ab- 

 domen slender, considerably exceeding hind angles of secondaries. 

 Head rather prominent, front bulging, protuberant, but not tuber- 

 culate; palpi short, weak, not reaching middle of front; antenna; of 

 male lengthily bipectinated. Legs stout, tibiie not spinose. Prima- 

 ries large, frail in appearance, apices drawn out, outer margin ob- 

 lique, rounded, without a distinct hind or anal angle. , 



Mr. Strecker says of his species that the. secondaries are re- 

 markably produced at outer angle, which is not the case here. 



Will those who took part in the field meeting at Jamesburg 

 please make a list of their captures on that occasion, and send to 

 the editor. So many good species have been mentioned that it 

 would be instructi\e to see how many species were taken by collec- 

 tors who did not gather indiscriminately all that came to their 

 view . 



