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NEW SPECIES OF PYRALID.3E. 



By Geo. D. Hulst. 



For a number of years I have been gathering material in the family 

 PyralicLe, and in Transactions of the American Entomological Soc. Vol. 

 VIII, pp. 145-168, July 1886, published a number of new species. 

 Since that time very much material has come to me from various sources, 

 and again I find myself with many insects, which neither our best speci- 

 alists nor myself can identify ; and once more- 1 take myself to the task 

 of describing what seems to me to be new to science. 



The sub-families in which are the species described in the present 

 paper I have for a considerable time given very diligent study. My form- 

 er determinations were hastily made, without opportunity to study vena- 

 tion, and the species were by necessity in many cases incorrectly referred. 

 Those described in the present papei, as iar as genera exist for their recep- 

 tion, are I believe correctly referred, and can be relied upon. 



Of the species in Grote's Check List, I have nearly all before me. I 

 have all the species described since the issue of the Check List. More- 

 over Prof. C. H. Fernald and Mr. Henry Edwards, both among the most 

 generous of Lepidopterists, have placed their entire collections at my dis- 

 posal, so I have in material- unrivalled facilities for comparison and study. 

 And it is with all this, that I deem the following to be new species, and 

 therefore describe them. 



EPIPASCHI^E, Grt. 

 Toripalpus adulatalis, Sp. nov. Expand 26 mm. Head black with light 

 gray scales intermingled. Tongue light gray. Labial palpi black, slightly mixed 

 with gray, extending half the length of the thorax. 'Antennae dark brown, strongly 

 pubescent. Scaled process of the $ antennae reaching beyond the collar. Ocelli dis- 

 tinct. Thorax reddish brown in front, gray behind. Abdomen gray, blackish at 

 base, with lateral scale tufts on the 2 segments preceding anal segment. Wings on 

 the basal field dark brown mixed with gray scales with a longitudinal light gray dash 

 in center, running two-thirds the length of the field and ending in a black point of 

 raised scales preceded by another. The field is limited quite distantly from base by 

 a light gray strongly thrice waved line which has beyond it a shadow line of dark 

 brown. Beyond this the middle field is gray, very light costally and centrally, 

 darker posteriorly. Anteriorly slightly washed, and shaded with a black discal point 

 of raised scales, posteriorly strongly shaded with brown which at the outer edge of 

 the field is slightly reddish. The light gray centrally extends to the outer margin of 

 the wing. Outer line clear at costa, shaded inwardly and outwardly with black, the 

 outward shading making a large apical blotch. The line ends at the extension of the 

 gray central field \ from costa in a black longitudinal dash. It shows somewhat in- 

 distinctly on the posterior £ in the continuation of the reddish brown ot the middle 

 field, and is there waved inwardly, dentate outwardly, and shaded on both sides with 

 blackish. Outer field narrow, gray, except towards posterior angle where it is 

 brown, slightly reddish. A black marginal line cut by the veins. Fringes interlined. 

 Entomologica Americana. Vol. iii. 20 October, 1887. 



