12 Psyche [February 



(Webber), Montreal, Can., June 11 (Chagnon), Ottawa, June 14 

 (Bro. Germain), Canada and Kentucky (Mus. Comp. Zool.), and 

 near Lander, Wyo., June (Roy Moodie) are in the collections of the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, McGill Univ., Ottawa Museum, 

 Gipsy Moth Laboratory and the author. 



Readily separated from A. morio by the less amount of black, 

 which in jnorio covers about two-third of the wing, filling nearly all 

 of the anal and axillary cells, and a slightly larger proportion of the 

 other cells. In the color of the wings it resembles more closely A. 

 higradata Loew and A. edivardsi Coq., but lacks the light colored 

 pile characteristic of those species. 



Villa lepidotoides sp. nov. 



Anthrax lepidota Johnson {non Osten Sacken) Smith's Insects 

 of N. J. Ann. Rept., N. J. State Museum, 1909 (1910), p. 746. 



cf • Head black, with sparse yellow tomentum and black hairs, 

 antennse black. Thorax and scutellum black, with golden yellow 

 tomentum, on the sides between the humeri and wings. The 

 tomentum is longer and whitish, on the pleura yellow. Abdomen 

 black, first and base of the second and fourth segments broadly 

 banded with white; tomentum, the extreme posterior edges of 

 which are yellowish, the last two segments with yellow tomentum 

 and black hairs. Legs black, with sparse yellowish tomentum, the 

 rows of spines on the posterior tibiae conspicuous, on the front and 

 middle tibise absent. Halteres brown with a yellowish-white knob. 

 Wings hyaline with about one-third of the anterior dark brown, 

 the line between the brown and hyaline crossing the following cells: 

 near the extreme tips of the costal, outer two-thirds of the marginal, 

 near the base of the first submarginal and first posterior (forming 

 small squares of brown at the base of each), basal fourth of the 

 discal and fourth posterior and middle of the anal cell. This 

 leaves all of the second submarginal, the second and third posterior 

 and the axillary cell hyaline. A subhyaline spot is present near 

 the end of the second basal cell. Length, 5 mm. One specimen, 

 collected by the late Erich Daecke, at lona, Gloucester Co., N. J., 

 June 16, 1902. Type in the author's collection. 



Similar to ^. lepidota O. S. from Mexico and Southern California, 

 but readily separated by the yellow tomentum of the thorax and 

 scutellum and the three bands of whitish tomentum on the abdo- 



