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the fourth on the apical fourth, both 

 these bands are curved outwardly. 

 Secondaries pale cinnamon brown. 

 Primaries beneath same color as the 

 secondaries above. Secondaries be- 

 neath ochreous. Expanse 48 mm. 4 

 $ $ . Hab. Delawai'e Water Gap, 

 Penn. Junfe. Collected by Chas. Palm 

 to whom I gratefullv dedicate this odd 

 species. 



Allied to D. integerriina., from 

 which it can be distinguished by the 

 absence of the two discal spots, different 

 position of the bands and also by the 

 different color. 



Both the foregoing species were com- 

 pared with the types of allied species. 



Orgyia inorntata. n. sp. 



$ Body above and below fuscous, 

 pectinations of antennae blackish, stalk 

 grayish. Primaries uniformly fuscous 

 with a curved, transverse band beyond 

 the middle, bending inwardly as it 

 reaches the inner margin. Secondaries 

 fuscovis. Wings beneath somewhat 

 paler than above. Expanse 15 mm. 



9 . Wholly dirty whitish above and 

 below. Length 16 mm. Width 7 mm. 



\$. 3 99. Collection W. Beu- 

 tenmiiller. Hab. Enterprise, Fla. May. 



Differ from all its congeners bv the 



absence of the ante-apical white spot 

 near the inner angle, and bv its plain 

 coloration. 



Larva. — Head and cervical shield 

 bright coral red. l^ody above mouse 

 color with three rows orange tubercles 

 along each side. Each tubercle pro- 

 vided with a bunch of long, silvery gray 

 hairs. Along the subdorsal region of the 

 second, third, ninth, tenth, eleventh and 

 twelfth segments is also a row of orange 

 tubercles Avith silvery gray hair while 

 on the dorsum of the fourth, fifth, sixth 

 and seventh segment is a thick bunch of 

 white hairs and from the eighth segment 

 to the end of the body there is a broad, 

 black stripe, with three small orange 

 spots on each segment. On each side 

 of the anterior parts of the first segment 

 is a long, black pencil and one on the 

 eleventh segment which is brown at the 

 base. A few brown hairs are also scat- 

 tered here and there over the body. 

 Underside vellowish green. Length 

 about 30 mm. 



Food-Plants. Live oak {^uercus 

 virefis)., and cypress {Cupresst(s) . 



Cocoon. — Similar to that of O. leu- 

 cost igma light brown, oval, composed 

 of fine silk, interwoven with the hair of 

 the larva. Length 25 mm. Width 

 12 mm. 



Entomological Society of London. —At 

 the meeting of the Entomological society of 

 London held 7 August 18S9. Dr. C. V. Riley 

 was elected an honorary fellow in place of 

 the late Dr. V. Signoret. The number of 

 honorary fellows is limited to ten, and less 

 than forty of the most celebrated entomolo- 

 gists in the world have been thus honored- 

 Dr. H. A. Hagen was elected in 1863, Dr. J. 



L. Leconte in the same year and Dr. A. S- 

 Packard in 1884. 



Classified according to the land of their 

 birth there are but two Americans, Drs. 

 Leconte and Packard. 



Prof. C. H. Fernald was elected a fellow 

 at the meeting held 4 September 1S89. 



No. 160-164 were issued 2 Jan. 1890. 



