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were wholly black, with the hairs of the posterior segments longer than 

 the rest, and tipped with white. 



Apatela sancta, ii. var. 



Pure clean wliite, with all the markings reduced to mere spots or dashes. There 

 is a very minute lilack dash at the base of primaries, hardly visible without a lens, 

 three black spots on costa, one at basal third, the other two near togetlier beyond 

 the middle — one in middle of wing, and a faint one behind the cell. The submarginal 

 line is indicated by three spots, one on internal margin, one near the middle of vein 

 3, and a smaller one near the apex, close to which are two very indistinct dots. The 

 marginal line is composed of minute black dots, and there is also a black dot in the 

 middle of the internal margin. F"ringe clear glossy white. Secondaries silvery 

 white, glossy, shining, the marginal line barely visible. Fringe clear white. Head, 

 thorax, breast, palpi, outer side of coxse, femora and tibite clear white, as is also the 

 underside of abdomen. Shaft of antennee white, pectinations black. Tarsi white, 

 banded with black. Interior of legs blackish. Upperside of abdomen black, covered 

 with long white hairs, and with white band, indicating the sepai-ation of the seg- 

 ments. 



Exp. wings, 42 mm. Length of body, 20 mm. 

 I ^. Wliite jMountains, N. H., ]\Irs. A. E. SIossoti. I have for 

 the present regarded this as a variation of A. populi, Riley, but it may 

 prove to be a new species. I took an example of this form at St. John, 

 N. Brunswick, in August 1886. It has at first sight a good deal of the 

 appearance of the European A. Leporina. I may here lemark that INIr. 

 Grote is in error in supposing A. popidi to be identical with A. lepusculina , 

 Guen. I have now a very long series of both forms, and am confident 

 that though closely allied, they are distinct species, A. lepusculina being 

 much (.larker than its relative, the ground color of the wing being gray 

 instead of white, with the black markings less distinct. In this respect it 

 approaches .-J. yt'//;w, Grote, with which it is probably sometimes con- 

 founded. 



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Has the form oS. Ecpa7itheria scribonia, Stoll, found in Florida — and 

 perhaps in other Southern States — received a name as a variety.? I took 

 last Spring, in Jacksonville, between thirty and forty of this species. The 

 specimens were all fresh and unworn, save that the tips of primaries were 

 invariably devoid of scales. Later, in reading Abbot's Insects of Georgia, 

 I found a reference to a Southern form of scribonia as having "tips of 

 primaries denuded.'' (I cannot quote literally, not having the book at 

 hand.) I have never met with the ordinary form in Florida. 



New York Annie Trumbull Slossox. 



