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also streaked with two olive shades. Abdomen dull yellow on the posterior half, the 

 base and dorsal streak being olivaceous. Beneath the markings of the primaries are 

 more confused, the margins of the wing and some spots in the center being pale. 

 Secondaries same as on upper side. The feet and legs are stone drab, with blackish 

 blotches. 



Exp. wings 31, mm. Length of body 12, mm. 3 examples tf, 

 9. Indian River, Florida. 



I place this curious insect in li. SchaeJer's genus at the suggestion 

 of Mr. Grote. It is however remarkably like a small Halisidota. 

 Ichthyura bifiria n, sp. 



Closely allied to I. brucei, Hy. Edw. but still widely differing in imponant par 

 ticulars. The general color is a bright silver gray, the white lines all very clearly dc - 

 fined, and the brown shades very strongly contrasted. Tbe basal line is slightly ob 

 lique with a sharp tooth in the middle. The second line is nearly straight, joining 

 the third, (which is oblique) exactly in the middle. The third line runs sharply to a 

 space 2 mm. from the internal margin, where it is joined by the fourth line, which 

 is sinuate, and opens into a white dentate triangular mark 4 mm. from the apex. 

 There is a dark brown cloud surrounding this fourth line in the costal region, and 

 the line is edged with reddish brown posteriorly, another brown cloud at the junc- 

 tion of the third and fourth line, a submarginal broken line of black spots, and nu- 

 merous blackish irrorations over the whole surface. Behind the brown sub apical 

 cloud is a whitish shade. Secondaries siWer gray with blackish scales over the whole 

 surface. Thorax with central brown tuft narrow and extending over the front of the 

 head. Abdomen silver gray, grizzled with black. Under side wholly darker gray, 

 with blackish scales, and the white sub-apical streak very distinct. Shaft of anten- 

 ime white, pectinations fawn color. The anal tuft is tipped with dark brown, and 

 the orbits of the eyes are surrounded by a dark shading of the -ame color. 

 Ex. wings, 28 mm. Length of body, 16 mm. 

 Soda Springs, Shasta Co., Cal. J. Behrens. 

 Gluphisia severa. n. sp. 



9- Base of the primaries blackish gray as far as the t. a. line, but covered 

 thickly with black scales, and the basal half line distinctly black. The t. a. line is 

 broad, velvety black, not quite reaching the costa, and is preceed.d by a whitish 

 shade. The t. p. line is dentate; whitish, more oblique than the t. a., which turns 

 abruptly at a right angle just as it readies the costa. The median space is velvety 

 black, varied with dull gray and ches nut brown, the latter about the anterior por- 

 tion. At the posterior end of the cell is an ochreous dash. Margins of the wing 

 broadly gray with olivaceous dashes, and blackish irrorations. Fringe gray mottled 

 with brown and olive. Secondaries smoky white, passing into dusky toward the 

 margins with slightly waved median band, and a black anal spot broken up with 

 gray. Thorax gray. Abdomen brown, mottled with gray. Beneath, the surface is 

 wholly gray, with the bands and markings geminate, and darker than the ground 

 color. There is no trace of the black, so conspicuous in the median space of tin- 

 upper side, and the color is far lighter. 



Exp. wings, 45 mm. Length of body, 17 mm. 

 1 9- Soda Springs. Shasta Co., Cal. J. Behrens. 

 I place this fine insect, (which is utterly unlike anything 

 I have ever before seen, provisionally in the genus Gluphisia, 



