Noctuidae, although in this larger group I can hardly hope to ac- 

 complish what Lord Walsingham has completed in the Tortri- 

 cidae, namely, the finding out what all Mr. Walker's descriptions 

 really covered. With every assistance it has been a difificult 

 task for Lord Walsingham, and in cases where more than one 

 species has been included by Mr. Walker under the same name, 

 perhaps the last word has not been said. In any event, while it 

 must be acknowledged that, aside from the question of synonymy, 

 Mr. Walker's work was not worth preserving, it must be con- 

 ceded that Lord Walsingham's setting has given it a permanent 

 value, and that so far as the North American Tortrices are con- 

 cerned, the question what we are to do with Mr. Walker's de- 

 scriptions has been satisfactorily answered. 



With regard to the new material figured and described there is 

 much of interest. The remarkable new form, Synnoina lyiiosyrana, 

 with its unusually dissimilar sexes is a case in point. The new 

 species of Ccnopis, then LopJiodcriis triferana, Pacdisca cratnbi- 

 tana and Proteopteryx eniarginana are all strange and interesting 

 forms. In describing Lozotaenia retana, however, Lord Walsing- 

 ham has renamed konstonana, and his Cenopis gracilana is a 

 synonym of sulfur c ana. 



The lithographic plates are good without being excellent. 

 The drawing is a little stiff, but the coloring has been carefully 

 done. The plates are, on the whole, perhaps, better than Robin- 

 son's, while they want the enlarged detail of Zeller's illustrations. 

 But as they are in the same style as Robinson's, they are best 

 compared with these, and they add much to the value of a work 

 one of the main purposes of which is a ready identification of 

 the species it discusses. A. R. Grote. 



ON A NEW SPECIES OF ARCTIA FROM FLORIDA. 



By B. Neumoegen. 



Arctia FLAMMEA. n. sp. 



Head, antennae, palpi, eyes, patagia^ and thorax of dark black 

 color; antennae serrated and moderate; palpi hairy; abdomen 

 black ; above with a broad, double dorsal line of brilliantly red 

 color, segmentarily serrated ; beneath dark black, with slight indi- 

 cations of a dotted red lateral line ; legs black ; anterior coxae 

 reddish below. 



Primaries deep velvety black, a little pointed towards apex, with 

 concolorous fringes; markings of cream color, intermixed with light 

 red, as follows : two longitudinal lines of irregularly shaped, square 

 dots, starting from sub-costal nervure, the interior one following 

 straight to median nervure ; thence, somewhat diverted from its 

 course, down to inner angle of interior margin, looking like a 

 straight line bent in the middle, and dividing the space between 



