J;inii:iry iSqo.j 



PSl'CHE. 



299 



Zeller,^ this description being based on 

 specimens from Colombia, S. A. In 

 this country it was described by Hulst 

 in 1S87 in Entomologica Americana 

 (v. 3 p. 137) as Stenoptycha pallul- 

 ella. 



The original description of the genus 

 was given by Heinemann under the 

 name Stenoptycha^ in 1865, in his work 

 on the lepidoptera of Germany and 

 Switzerland,'^ but as this generic name 



1 Hor. Soc. ent. ross., 1SS2, v. 16, p. 224. 



2 Die schmetterlinge Deutschlands und der Schvveiz, 

 1S65, p. 190. 



was preoccupied by Zeller,^ the genus 

 was rechristened Melia by Heineman, 

 on a later page of the same work.^ Melia 

 proved, however, also to be preoccupied^ 

 as noted by Zeller in 1S67, and the cur- 

 rent EuzopJiera was then finally pro- 

 posed. 



' Entoni. zeitung Stettin, 1S63, p. 154. Zeller's use, 

 of this name for a genus of pterophoridae is also illegiti- 

 mate, as it has already been applied by Agassiz to a 

 Medusa (Contr. nat. hist. United States, 1S62, v. 2, p. 149) 



' /. c, p. 2094 



^ Used previously in muscidae, pyralidae, Crustacea, 

 moUuscaand botany. 



< Entom. zeitung Stettin, 1S67. p. 377. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW NORTH AMERICAN MOTHS. 



BY WILLIAM BEUTENMTJLLER, NEW YORK. 



Datana modesta, n. sp. 

 Head and thoracic patch yellowish 

 ochreous, remaining parts of thorax 

 rusty brown. Primaries rusty brown 

 with a small, elongated, discal spot on 

 the middle of the wing and another 

 smaller spot before the middle. About 

 the apical fourth of the wing is an ill- 

 defined, transverse, curved band a 

 little darker than the ground color. 

 Beyond this band the wing assumes a 

 purplish brownish color. Secondaries 

 much paler than the primaries. Body 

 above yellowish ochreous, beneath pale 

 ochreous. Secondaries beneath pale 

 ochreous, primaries somewhat darker. 

 Expanse 48 mm. \ $ . Hab. Kissim- 

 mee, Florida, May, Type Collection, 

 Chas. Palm. 



Allied to D. floridana. but diflering 

 from it by having the thoracic patch 

 yellowish ochreous, and by the absence 

 of the two additional transverse bands. 



Datana palmii, n. sp. 



Head and thoracic patch deep vel- 

 vety brown, remaining parts of thorax 

 cinnamon brown, mixed with whitish 

 scales. Primaries cinnamon brown 

 (in one specimen nearly as deep in 

 color as D. angusii) and thicklv cov- 

 ered with whitish scales so as to nearly 

 obscure the ground color. z\cross the 

 wing are four narrow, transverse bands 

 same as the ground color. The first on 

 the basal fourth, oblique; the second a 

 little before the middle slightly curved ; 

 the third a little beyond the middle and 



