NEAV^ SPECIES OF I.EPIDOPTERA. 



By HERMAN STRECKER. 



CossHS Zaboliciis □. »p. 



Comes in with Robiitiir, but is a heavier, far more roljust-looking insect, the wings are broader and less pointed, more stumpy, 

 and secondaries as well as primaries are opaque without any tendency to semitransparency. The color is a dirty yellowish or ochrey 

 white. The secondaries are as strongly striated as the primaries. As the reticulations and stria; are diflerent in every example of any 

 species of Cossus, it is an impossibility to describe them. I have now in sight a dozen $ $ Robiniir and the markings in no two are 

 alike, all differing more or le.ss from each other; the one example I am now describing is a $, and I will say the markings are in the 

 style of Jiobini(c but heavier, and as I already remarked, the hind wings are as heavily marked as the superiors. The same yellowish 

 white color prevails over the whole insect as well as on the wings. 



This single 9 type expands 3j inches, and was found emerging from the chrysalis by Charles Dury in 

 Florida some twenty years since, when he sent it to me. The chrysalis was diiFerent from that of Rohinkv. 



Cyniatopliora Teioa n. sp. 



Head and collar brown. Patagia? grayish white edged with brown, .\bdomen brownish. Wings, basal and apical patches same 

 color as patagia', the first which is strongly angulate extends to the inner margin and is succeeded by a dusky liand traversed by dark 

 brown lines. The median space is paler and succeeded by another dusky dark-lined band. Keniform indistinct. Terminal space paler 

 gray, a dark line edges outwardly the pale apical patch. Secondaries light gray, showing indistinct mesial and marginal bands. 



Expands If inches. Habitat, State of Washington. Type, one example. 



Acronyeta Ariooh n. sp. 



Head, body, and wings creamy ochraceous white, four black dots or points in the discoidal cell, a row of small sagittate marks 

 indicate the t. p. line, a row of very faint subniarginal dashes, and a marginal row of distinct round black dots, fringe white, whol& 

 wing more or less faintly powdered with brown, more especially along the costal part. Secondaries pure white. 



Expands 2J inches. Type, one example taken at New Orleans. 



This makes a third in the group of Oblinata and Lanceolaria, from both of which it is easily distinguished 

 by the yellowish tint of primaries and much lighter and less distinct markings. 



Acronycta diasta n. sp. 



Head and body above gray, beneath white. Primaries sordid white, in most part shaded or covered with rather dark smoky 

 gray. The reniform and orbicular are fairly distinct, as is also the double t. a. line. A white, somewhat triangular patch exterior to the 

 reniforra and extending thence to the t. p. line, and terminating inwardly on vein o. A white streak extends from base along and 

 anterior to vein 2 to the t. p. line. An irregular white submarginal band. A row of black marginal points. Secondaries wliite, 

 powdered slightly witli brown on inner part. Veins indicated by brown, as also a broken marginal line. All fringes white. 



Expands 1^ inches. Type, one exam]ile taken near Chicago, 111. 



This differs widel}^ from all other known American species, its nearest ally being the European A. 

 Megacephala, F to which in a general way it bears considerable superficial resemblance, which is not, however^ 

 carried out on any point in detail. 



Cerina Cialva n. sp. 



Entire ground color white. Patagite and collar edged and sprinkled with black atoms, as is also more or less the surface of pri- 

 maries. The basal, t. a., t. p., and submarginal lines bhack, which contrasted with the white ground color shows these lines as well as 

 the reniform and orbicular very distinctly. Fringe black and white. Secondaries with a pale gray discal mark and mesial line, space 

 between the latter and the margin light gray. Fringe white. 



Expands 1^ inches. Type, one cJ* example from Clyde, N. Y. 



This insect bears a most remarkable superficial resemblance to Acronycta Fragilis Gn., for which, in fact,. 

 before close inspection, I first mistook it. 



Agrotis IViinia n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and primaries brown of a slightly reddish cast. Secondaries a paler tint of the same color. T. a. line well defined 

 and edged outwardly with darker brown, as is also the t. p. line on its inner edge; a distinct dark submarginal shade, as also a rather 

 broad median shade. Reniform and orbicular well defined, the latter the more distinct. A row of dark marginal points on the spaces 

 between the veins. Fringe concolorous with the rest of wing. Secondaries darker towards and at exterior margin ; a faint discal mark. 

 Fringe brown marginally and white beyond. 



Expands 1| inches. From Seattle, Wash. Type, one example. 



This insect belongs to the group Carneades Grote along with Alticola and Basiflava, than which, however,, 

 it is smaller and by no means as richly colored or conspicuous. 



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