_i8 3 - 



The head is small, not more than one-third the width of thorax. Eyes very large. 

 Palpi barely exceeding the head, with long hairs at their base, the terminal article 

 small, and sharply pointed. Antennae closely and deeply pectinated. Thorax densely 

 tufted with short scale-like hairs. Abdomen cylindrical, dotted with Fhorl hairs. 

 Feet and legs are covered with hair to the base of the tarsi, whi h are also sparselj 

 clothed with hairs. Wings much narrower than usual in the genus Casms, the 

 secondaries being a little more than half the length of primaries. Th • median cell < t 

 both wings is divided, and there is an accessory cell on the primaries only. The in- 

 ternal vein of primaries is reduced to a mere fold, and there is a connecting vein 

 between the costal and subcostal of.secondaries. Oil, Twise, the n uration resembks 

 that of Cossus. 



Inguromorpha Slossoni, n. sp. 



Pale gray. At base of primaries is a deep black transverse hand, extending 

 quite across the wing. At internal angle and apex are distinct black lines forming 

 circles, the enclosed spaces being dotted with brownish black scales, and there are 

 also several irregular black dashes on the rest of the wing. The secondaries are pale 

 gray, with taint black reticulations. The under side has the markings repeated, but 

 a little more faintly. Thorax and abdomen gray, with blacki-h mottling. 

 Exp. wings, 32 mm. Length of body. 15 mm. 

 From 1 (-7, taken at Jacksonville, Florida, al electric light, by Mrs. 

 A. Trumbull Slosson, to whom I respectfully dedicate it. 1 have taken 

 considerable pains to compare this singular species with the descriptions 

 of those in our lists which are unknown to the general entomologist, and 

 cannot make it to be anything but a new species. It is certainly not C. 

 nanus ofStrecker, as that is said to resemble C. iigniperda. Itjs not at 

 all like the descriptions of Walker's C. plagiatus or C. populi, and differs 

 lIso -really in size, these two being each said to be 18 lines, or 2.^ inches 

 in expanse, while the present species is only 1 \ inches. Lintner's C. 

 undosus would appear, if perfect, to be of the same size as Walker's spe- 

 cies. The markings too, are very different from either of them, the strange 

 circular apical blotch, ami the distinct black basal transverse line being 

 Strong characters. I shall. endeavour at an early day to give a figure of 

 this very interesting species. 



Arctia Brucei, n. sp. 



($. Ground color of primaries brownish black. At the base is a rosy red patch, 



enclosing 3 black dashes. Costa for its entire length, a large triangular patch in the 



middle, an almost straight line from costa to internal margin, fringe and internal 



margin all rosy n-d. The line across the wing is slightly bent about its middle, and 



from it are two slight dashes, indicating the W mark common to the genus, but in 



re is no trace of the marls beyond these faint lines. Secondaries wholly 



ed, with broken maculate marginal band. Head chestnut brown. Shaft of 



antenn 'or. Disc of thorax, upper side of abdomen, pectus, base oi I 



and pectinations of antennae brown. Collar, tibiae, and abdomen beneath and at the 



rosy red. Underside of wings marked as above, but more faintly. 



Similar to the ', but the red is brighter and the mark on the outer third 

 of the wing more distinct. It is however, more like the lettei X than W, aid ihc 



