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has inserter! in his "Synopsis" a name which lias no corresponrling description. It would l)c always a great 

 convenience to the student, even if not so much 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 groat catalogues of Kirby and Slaudinger 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 lor their stability. 



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

 p. 317. (1862). , . . 



Hesperia Powesheik, Parker, Am. Ent. H, p. 271, il870), is identical with Hesperia Garita, Reakirt, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil.. VI, 

 p. 160, (1866). 



Bapta Viatica, Harvey, Bull. Buff'. Soc, p. 265, t. 11, f. 6, (1874), is the same as the old Corycia Semidarata, Walker. 



Agrotis Depre 

 J), and later in hi; 

 Europe and America. 



Agrotis Depressus, Grote, Can. Ent. Ill, p. 192, {IS71), in the Amph!pi/m Tiw/opocjinis o! Linnieus in the Fauna Svecica, 316, 

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



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



Macroglossa Fumos.\, nov. sp. 



Expands Ij inch. Head and bmly same colour as Diffinh, but the yellow of head and upper part of thorax slightly more inclined 

 to green. Primaries: costa black with the middle third yellow; exterior margin black, 3-16 inch wide on costa at apex, and diminishing 

 to a mere line at the inner angle ; at b.ase of wing a triangular patch, inner iwu-thirds black, outer, which eitends along the inner margin 

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

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

 broader than in Dijiiiis, Tcntiis and Thclis) ; 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 Coniferariim, Abbot it Smith, Ins. Georgia, (i. 81, t. 41, (1797). 



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

 ihe first one I received about two years since from my old friend, Edward Baundi.auer, of Baltimore, who bred it from a cliecquered 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 expand a trifle over 2', inches, and in all their details agree with Abbot's figure; 

 it is as ditiiirent from EUema Harrhii, with which it was so long confounded, as it is from Sphinx Ereniitus. It comes amaz- 

 ingly close to the European Spliinx Piiiuxlri, but on tlie primaries of the latter are two irregular, oblique, tran-iverse, brownish ishades 

 which are wanting in Coniferarum, 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. 



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Sphinx Eremitoides, nnv. sp. 



Male expands 3 inches. He.ad .and thorax whitish grey ; teguUe 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 bands, the ones at the base largest, and lessening in size .as they 

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

 BO heavily. Secondaries greyish-white ; on exterior margin a broad band, bl.ack inwardly aud dark greyish nearest the margin ; at base 

 of wing a black patch which does not extend to the .abdominal margin, between tliis 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 groimd colour — giving to the hatter the appearance of 

 a large white H on a dark back-ground. Feaiale expands :i\ inches ; resembles the male with the exception of tlie mesial band of secon- 

 daries which is not broken but narrowly continued over the white space that breaks it in the male. Under surf ice, 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 Eremitus, but easily to be known by its pale .sUvery-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^MONi.v Jehovah, nov. sp. 



Male. Expands 4j inches. Same form a.s 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 Semiramis. 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. : 



Eud.emoxia Semira.mis. Cramer, Vol. I, t. XIII, a, ^, (17751. Maassen, Beit. Schmett., f . 5 9.6 (^, (1869). 

 EUD.EMONIA Derceto, Maasscn, Beit. Schmelt., f. 13, 14 ^, (1872). 

 Eud.s;mosia Jehovah, mihi, (1874). 



Catocala Magd.\i.ena, nov. sp. 



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

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

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



