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North American Entomologist 



Etlitor: A. R. GKOTE. Publishers: REIXECKE & ZESCn. 



Buff:ilo Society of Nalural Hc'.axces. 600 Main Street, Cuflalo, N.V. 



Vol. 1. JUIVE, 18SO. ]No. 1?5. 



New Species of Moths 

 By a. R. Grote. 



Nymphaeella. n. g. Pyralidae. 



No ocelli. Tongue short. Antennae simple. Labial jjalpi por- 

 rect, tliird joint distinct, rather long. Maxillary palpi scaled, nearly 

 as long as the labial, porrect. Eyes naked; legs slender, thinly 

 scaled; front fiat. Fore wings long, narrow, rounded at tips. 

 Frenulum of the ? divided, of the male simple. Primaries 1'^ 

 veined, cell open, 9 out of 8; 10, 11, simple. Hind wings 8 veined. 

 Median vein 4-branched ; 8 out 7 a short furcation to costa ; 6 pro- 

 longed inwardly to base along side the vein margining the cell 

 to which it is joined by a short branch beyond the point of 

 closure of the cell, the latter closed by a fold sweeping down 

 within the point where 5 and 4 unite. 



Nymphasella dispar. ^'. s. 



$, . Fore wings leaden gray Avith a white quadrate elongate 

 patch on cell and two larger Avhite patches on submedian space 

 separated by a dark spot, the internal margin of the wing dark. 

 Before the s. t. line at costa another white clouding, and the 

 terminal space washed with white ; nervules dark. Hind wings 

 Avhite, with a thread line before margin and a fuscous mark at 

 anal angle. Abdomen above leaden gray, the segments marked with 

 white, beneath white, legs are white, fore tibia and palpi externally 

 dusky. Expanse 22 mil. 



?. Fore wings entirely leaden gray, the white patches wanting, 

 yet some faint indication of their position may be made out. 

 Hind wings as in the male. Abdomea entirely leaden gray above. 

 Beneath white, as in the male, the foro^wings more or less clouded 

 with fuscous. Expands 26 mil. 



I have examined 4 S and 2 ? specimens sent by Mr. Hill 

 from Ijewis Co., N. Y., and said to fcert on the white Water Lily. 



