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populifolia, the moth appearing in Maine, September i. I have 

 also raised Tliera contractata Pack., from a pupa beaten out of 

 the hackmatack, the moth appearing the first week in September. 



SOME NEW NOCTUID^ AND NOTES. 



By a. R. Grote, a. M. • 



Spragueia magnifica, Gr. 



Base of fore wings very pale yellow, with a dark basal, mesi- 

 al, longitudinal stripe sprinkled with chalybeous scales ; internal 

 margin also narrowly striped. Median space defined by out- 

 wardly oblique orange line, fusing with an outer orange line or 

 band, exerted superiorly ; the median space is thus narrowed 

 inferiorly ; ground color whitish or pale yellow ; the small chaly- 

 beous discal spots are surrounded by the orange inferior shade of 

 median space ; a subterminal black band, edged with and sur- 

 mounted by orange ; terminal space pale yellow before the dark 

 fringes. The smallest and most beautifully marked of the genus. 

 Arizona, coll. B. Neumoegen, Esq. 



This species differs from Leo by its smaller size, the narrower 

 subterminal plumbeous band, widening a little inferiorly, which 

 is not indented or broken ; the even, curved edge to the pale 

 basal field comes down to the margin at middle of wing; the 

 costal black dots are absent ; the submedian pale streak of the 

 ground color at base is much wider, the inner margin here being 

 only narrowly plumbeous. A most beautiful and vividly colored 

 insect, very near Leo, but quite distinct on examination. 



Spragueia Inorata, n. s. 



A small, inconspicuous species, with the usual dark spots and 

 bands absent.. Ochrey orange, dull colored ; reniform, an open 

 ringlet, orbicular a minute dark point. Median space wide. 

 Traces of the pale median lines, the t. a. nearly straight. Fringes 

 slightly soiled inferiorly. The wing is darkest along internal 

 margin and on terminal margin irregularly. Hind wings pale 

 fuscous, subtransparent. Head and thorax like fore wings. The 

 color is a pale buff-yellow, the darker shading somewhat dull 

 ochrey orange. Texas. One specimen, coll. B. Neumoegen, 

 Esq. This form approaches Tarache, slightly, in appearance. 



Besides comparative details as to the $ genitalia and anten- 

 nae, the genus Spragueia differs from Erotyla, by the narrower 

 primaries, which are also proportionately longer ; the longer vein 

 9, and the different origin of 7 and 8, while the hind wings are 

 only 7-veined, its European genus having them 8-veined. The 

 ornamentation is different in pattern, and the American genus 

 contains a number of little Tortricid-like species, the European 

 having only one, comparatively broad-winged, more like Erastria. 

 The genus comes to our fauna from the South, and our Cuban 



