TON Clee 
AMERICANA 
OL, VY, ae eS 1889, NO. 5. 
Phragmatobia assimilans, Walker. 
By Anniz TRUMBULL SLOSSON. 
Mr. Henry Edwards, in his preface to the supplement to ‘‘ New 
Check List” (Ento, Amer., March, 1888), in speaking of Walker’s types 
in the British Museum, says: ‘‘It is probable that a few of the species 
mentioned may yet await re discovery by our entomologists, and that 
they are fully entitled to a position in our lists.” 
I feel confident that I have reclaimed, from the doubt and suspicion 
long surrounding it, one of these species, and can prove its right to the 
place in our lists given it by Mr. Edwards. 
Last May I took at light in Franconia, N. H., on a cool evening 
towards the last of the month, a Bombyx which puzzled me greatly. It 
was much like Phragmadéotia rubricosa, Harris, but a good deal larger, 
and differing in other respects. Still I thought, at first, that it might be 
a large female of an early brood. 
On my return to New York in the Autumn I showed the insect to 
several entomologists, but it was new to all. One day, during the winter, 
in glancing over Mr. Edwards’ supplement I saw the name of ?. assim- 
dlans, Walk., and began to wonder if my moth might not be this long 
sought species. The supplement refers to ‘‘Cat. B. Mus., pl. 3, p. 630.” 
I wrote to Mr. Edwards in regard to this and was told that the reference 
to ‘‘plate” was an error and should be ‘“‘farf 3.” I could find but 
little literature on the subject. In Morris’s Synopsis is given this extract 
from Cat. B. Mus. 
‘‘P. assimilans, Walk. . A/ale.—Red. Antenne, testaceous. 
Thorax with brown hairs. Wings red, veins darker. Primaries slightly 
brown along the costa, and elsewhere indistinctly sprinkled with pale 
