LYGiENA. 



has inserted in his "Synopsis" a name which has no corresponding description. It would be always ?i great 

 convenience to the student, even if not so mucli to the compiler, if the latter would favour us always with the 

 No. of the Vol. and page on which the species cited may be found, and the year of its publication ; it is this that 

 has made the great catalogues of Kirby and Staudinger indispensable to every Lepidopterist. When an author 

 cites his species, but withholds the number of the vol. and page, it causes unwholesome ideas to suggest them- 

 selves that the less such species are investigated the beiter for their stability. 



Hesperia KiowAH, Reakirt, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil., Vol. VI, p. 150, (1866), is a synonym o{ Hesperia Metacomet, Harris, Ins. Mass., 

 p. 317. (1862). 



Hesperia Powesheik, Parker, Am. Ent. II, p. 271, (1870), is identical with Hesperia Garita, Reakirt, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil.. VI, 

 p. 150, (1866). 



Bapta Viatica, Harvey, Bull. Buff. Soc, p. 265, t. 11, f. 6, (1874), is the same as the old Corycia Semidarata, Walker. 



AonoTis Depresscs, Grote, Can. Ent. Ill, p. 192, (1871), is the .^mpAipi/ra Tragopoginis of Linnxua in the Fauna Svecica, 316, 

 (1746), and later in his Systema Naturse, and also in Hubner, Esper, Treitschke, Godart and others. It is a species common to both 

 Europe and America. 



NOTICES OF SOME NEW AND RARE SPECIES WHICH I SHALL FIGURE AT AN EARLF DATE. 



Macroglossa Fumosa, nov. sp. 



Expands li| inch. Head and body same colour as Diffinis, but the yellow of head .and upper part of thorax slightly more inclined 

 to green. Primaries : costa bl.ick with the middle third yellow ; exterior margin black, 3-10 inch wide on cossta at apex, and diminishing 

 to a mere line at the inner angle ; at base of wing a triangular patch, inner two-thirds black, outer, which extends along the inner margin 

 and diminishes to a point, is yellow; all the space, which in Diffinis and allied species is vitreous, is here clothed, on both upper and 

 under surface, with large, he.avy, ashen or smoky scales. Secondaries have the exterior margin narrowly edged with black (but still 

 broader than in Diffinis, Tenuis and Thetis) ; a broad black border on abdominal margin; disc of wing covered with same heavy ashen 

 scales as on primaries. Three examples, two in collection of Mr. O. Meske, at Albany, the third — owing to the goodness of that gentle- 

 man — is now in my cabinet. 



Sphinx Coniferarum, Abbot & Smith, Ins. Georgia, p. 81, t. 41, (1797). 



Of this species, which has been lost since the time of Abbot, I have had the rare good fortune to obtain two examples, both males; 

 the first one I rectived about two years since from my old friend, Edward Baumhauer, of Baltimore, who bred it from a checquered cater- 

 pillar which he found feeding on pine, and the description of which agreed with Abbot's figure ; the second example came from northern 

 New York, .and was taken on the wing. Both examples exp.and a triHe over 2^ inches, and in all their details agree with Abbot's figure ; 

 it is as different from Ellema Harrisii, with which it was so long confounded, as it is from Sphinx Eremilus. It comes amaz- 

 ingly close to the European Sphinx Pinaslri, but on the primaries of the latter are two irregular, oblique, transverse, brownish sh.ides 

 which are wanting in Coniferarura, but what most strikingly distinguishes this from all allied forms is the immaculate abdomen which 

 has not the shadow of a line or of any mark whatsoever. 



Sphinx Eremitoides, nov. sp. ^ _ 



Male expands 3 inches. Head and thorax whitish grey; tegulse edged with a black line; abdomen with a broad, whitish-grey, 

 dorsal band, destitute of any dorsal line, on its sides are seven short black b.ands, the ones at the base largest, and lessening in size as they 

 approach the extremity where the last two are mere spots. Primaries whitish or silvery -grey, marked much as in Eremitas but not near 

 so heavily. Secondaries greyish- white; on exterior margin a bread band, black inwardly and dark greyish nearest the margin ; at biise 

 of wing a black patch which'does not extend to the abdominal margin, between this patch and the marginal band or border is a narrower 

 black mesial band, but this is not entire— being broken near the middle by the white ground colour— giving to the latter the appearance of 

 a large white H on a dark back-ground. Female expands 3J inches; resembles the male with the exception of the mesial band of secon- 

 daries which is not broken but narrowly continued over the white space th.at breaks it in the male. Under surface, both sexes : primaries 

 grey; secondaries white, greyish at exterior margin; an irregular, narrow, mesial, brown band which is also continued up the primaries 

 in a double transverse line or shade. Allied to Eremilus, but easily to be known by its pale silvery-grey colour, by the almost entire ab- 

 sence of a dorsal stripe, and the peculiar ornamentation of secondaries. Taken in Kansas by Mr. T. B. Ashton, to whose kindness I am 

 indebted for the examples above described. 



Eud/emonia Jehovah, nov. sp. ^ 



Male. Expands 4| inches. Same form as Semiramis, Cram., but the exterior margin of primaries, between the veins, is indented a 

 little more deeply, and the tails are not quite so long in proportion. The colour is a dark grey or mouse color ornamented in darker 

 shades almost in the same manner .as Semirdmis. Brazil — in collection of Prof. J. E. Meyer, in New York. 

 There are known to me three species of these most wonderful moths, all S. American, viz. : 



EriD.EMONiA Semiramis. Cramer, Vol. I, t. XIII, a, c^, (1775). 3faassen, Beit. Schmett., f. 5 $,6 c?, (1869). 

 EuD^EJiONiA Derceto, Maassen, Beit. Schmett., f. 13, 14 c?, (1872). 

 Eud^mosia Jehovah, mihi, (1874). 



Catocala Magdalena, nov. sp. 



Female expands 2| inches. Head and thorax, above, pale ashen ; abdomen yellow, body beneath whitish. Primaries pale uniform 

 ash-grey nearly like the paler examples of Concumbem ; transverse posterior, anterior and sub-basal lines very narrow and inconspicuous ; ^^ 



reniform faint and double ringed ; sub-reniform caused by a widely open sinus of the transverse posterior line ; fringe concolorous with )/^ 



