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That our determination of laspis admits of no doubt, follows 

 from Guenee's description. He calls the color " very pale testa- 

 ceous grey," and the body "slender." The rest of his description 

 falls in with our specimens, of which I took several males in the 

 vicinity of Buffalo in July. In arranging our Noctuidge I saw at 

 once that Guenee's Apamea laspis could not remain in the same 

 genus with his other species, which are mainly Hadenas, and I made 

 it the type of a new genus. Only later I saw its affinity with 

 Guenee's Bryophila Palliatricula, although so widely separated 

 by him, and I divided it on the character of mixed and flattened 

 scales on the thorax. I believe the genus containing laspis, Pal- 

 liatricula, (if these two are distinct) and Scnsilis should be placed 

 next to Bryophila, but until the European species are all com- 

 pared its exact value cannot be ascertained. The species are 

 more robust and have a somewhat Hadeniform appearance. They 

 all have a white spot attached to the t. p. line, while it is lost in 

 the white shading of the median space in Palliatricida. 



Spragueia pardalis. n. s. 



Allied to Dania, by the orange fringes, which are flecked with 

 black opposite the cell. Fore wings black, with a large, pale yel- 

 low oblique costal patch before the t. a. line ; another on the 

 median space enclosing a dark dot, and a smaller spot before the 

 apex. Median lines broad, orange, only marked on the lower 

 half of the wing. Hind wings blackish. The outer smaller pale 

 spot on centre of primaries surmounts a little patch of orange 

 and then some brown-black scales. These deep brown-black 

 scales obtain below the larger median pale costal patch and cover 

 the upper extremity of the outer median orange line. Front 

 smooth, bulged. Collar edged with orange. Head behind, orange. 

 Tegulae orange within ; the shoulders blue-black. Abdomen black- 

 ish, finely annulate with pale. Beneath, the body is pale yellow. 

 Expanse 17 mil. Florida, several specimens collected by Mr. Roland 

 Thaxter. 



This species is more black than any of the others and is eas- 

 ily recognized by the pale white costal spots extending to the 

 middle of the wing. For a discussion of the structure of Sprag- 

 ueia and allied North American genera I refer the student to a 

 paper published in the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XI, p. 231. 



ON SOME APPARENTLY NEW FORMS OF DIURNAL 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



By Henry Edwards. 



• Anthocaris coloradensis. n. sp. (?) 



I have long had in my possession a ^ example of Anthocaris, 

 which appears to be distinct from any known form, but I hesi- 

 tated to describe it until more material might present itself. 



