92 Notes on North American Lepidoptera. 



' M. Guenee notices in the first volume of the "Species 

 General" the great resemblance of E. albifrons to the higher 

 genera of the Noctuiche, and the discovery of the species de- 

 scribed below gives fresh force to his remarks. 



We would not be surprised if the genus should be ulti- 

 mately referred to the neighborhood of Demas and Diloba. 



Edema albifrons, Sm. Abb. 



As this species is not uncommon in the Northern States it 

 is known to almost every collector, and a specific description 

 is unnecessary. 



Edema Packardii, nov. sp. 



Expanse 31 mm . Length of body 16 mm . The ground color of the an- 

 terior wings gray, sprinkled with black atoms and with white, and faint 

 brownish and ochreous stains ; the half-line and the interior line absent ; 

 the orbicular spot present as a geminate blackish upright lunulate mark, 

 preceded by a white stain ; the reniform a similar, but simple and more 

 distinct mark, surrounded by a faint ochreous annulus; the median 

 shade passes between the spots, it is thickened below the reniform form- 

 ing a black spot, but is afterward lost ; the exterior line is only present 

 in the central part of the wings, it is "geminate, dentate and forms a 

 particularly prominent indentation opposite the reniform spot; a con- 

 trasting apical white shade, below which appears a diffuse blackish shade 

 clearly cut above, and the black distinct subterminal line formed of ob- 

 lique marks between the nervules ; fringes long. Posterior wings uni- 

 form dark fuscous, with lighter fringes. 



Beneath gray, with numerous black atoms ; the lines and discal dots are 

 obsolete. 



Habitat. Waco, Texas. March 9. (Belfrage.) 

 We dedicate this interesting species to Dr. A. S. Packard, 

 Jr.,. as an acknowledgment of the value of his exhaustive 

 "Synopsis of the Bombycidee" as well as of his kindness to 

 a younger naturalist. 



Family NOCTUID^. 



Acronycta brumosa, Guen. 



Acronycta Verrilli, G. & R. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, Vol. Ill, p. 178, 

 PI. 2, fig. 82. 



