50 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



Had.— Conn. (East River), Chas. R. Ely ; Md. (Plummer's 

 Island), A. Busck ; Md. (Frederick); N. J. (Essex County), 

 W. D. Kearfott. 



Fifteen specimens in my own collection and two in the 

 Nat. Mus. Coll. — all males — are before me. All were col- 

 lected in July and August. Most of the specimens are more 

 or less worn or rubbed, and in these the markings will fall 

 short of the above description and the figure. It gives me 

 pleasure to name this very distinct species after Mr. Charles 

 R. Ely, of Washington, D. C, who collected all my Con- 

 necticut material, and to whom I consider myself under great 

 obligation for this and much other material. In thirty hind- 

 wings examined vein 5 was free in six, in these the stem of 

 3 + 4 was short, among the remaining 5 was connate with the 

 stem, or in a few instances arose from the latter near its 

 origin. 



26. H. insulatella n. sp. (Plate III, fig. 26) .—Palpi, head, basal 

 joint of antennae and thorax sordid white, lightly dusted with pale fus- 

 cous. Palpi rather short and stout, the second joint more densely 

 dusted externally, nearly twice the length of the terminal joint, the latter 

 acutely pointed, scarcely dusted at all. Basal joint of antennae nearly 

 twice as long as wide, feebly curved, pecten of long, not closely set 

 setae, stalk slender, simple, grayish-fuscous, scarcely pubescent (cf). 

 Posterior margin of head more distinctly whitish. Thorax anteriorly, 

 except the patagia, infuscate. Forewings elongate, acutely pointed, 

 costa approximately straight from the base to the apical fourth ; ground 

 color white, lightly suffused with dark fuscous, the latter prevailing 

 more in the costal and apical portions of the wing, at one-third from 

 the base is a heavy costal spot extending somewhat backward, then 

 sends a narrower line obliquely backward, a spot less distinct but 

 similar to the costal one, but a little nearer the base, on the dorsal 

 margin, extending slightly backward and from which proceeds a nar- 

 row curved line which with the line from the costal spot forms an 

 acute angulated fascia, the summit of the angle is a little nearer the 

 costa than the dorsal margin, and which, viewed from the base re- 

 sembles somewhat the letter W, at the end of the cell are two large, 

 dark fuscous spots, and between the lower one of these and the angle 

 of the fascia is a series of four or five unequal spots, the elongate oval 

 space, enclosed between these and the rather densely speckled sub- 

 costal space, is almost white ; cilia sordid grayish-white. Hindwings 

 as wide as the forewings, costa not retuse, depressed towards the apex, 

 latter acute, grayish-white, lightly dusted with fuscous externally; 



