270 Notes on some PyralidcB from ISFeiv England, 



mandsii Pack, find other allied species; base of wing pale whitish ash, 

 beyond a broad dark shade crosses the wing, limited externally by a white 

 distinct zigzag line which is directed obliquely outward towards the inner 

 edge; the line has an acute narrow point running inwards on the median 

 vein, and a bi'oader angle directed inwards on the subraedian vein, the 

 line directed outwards at its termination on the inner edge. A costal 

 dark shade on the outer edge of this line. In the middle of, and extending 

 across, the shade is a long ochreous spot. The two discal black dots are 

 more obscure than usual. The submarginal white line is very distinct, 

 consisting of three scallops, the middle one forming a grand curve ex- 

 tending from the subcostal vein around to the submedian, the curve is 

 well rounded not augulated as in N. Edmnmhii. This line has a dark 

 shade on both sides, distinctly on the costa. A marginal row of distinct 

 black dots. Fringe concolorous with the rest of the wing. Hind wings 

 of the usual shade. Tore wings dusky beneath, with a costal submarginal 

 pale line. Legs cinereous, hind tibiai with a dark ring, tarsi ringed with 

 whitish. 



Length of body -35 of an inch; of fore wing -38 of an inch. Maine, 

 (Packard). 



This species may be known by the broad dusky shade on the inner tliird 

 of the fore wings, enclosing an ochreous patch. It is of about the same 

 size as N. Edmandsii. 



Nephopteryx roseatella, n. sp. — 2 ^ . With the same cut of the wings and 

 almost exactly repeating the coloration of the European Pempelia semiru- 

 hella, it has all the structural characters of Nepliopteryx. The palpi are 

 larger and less ascending than usual ; antennce without the tuft of scales 

 with short broad joints, well ciliated beneath. Front with longer scales, 

 than usual. Head and palpi reddish. Costa of fore wings conspicuously 

 white, the band not reaching the apex, the rest of the wing dull roseate ; 

 inner edge whitish, the band not reaching the inner angle. Hind wings 

 whitish. Beneath fore wings a little dusky; hind wings same as above. 

 Two hind pairs of legs reddish externally. 



Length of fore wing -37 of an inch. Dorchester, Mass. (F. G. San- 

 born). 



In one specimen the roseate color on the wings has apparently faded 

 out into a pale drab, but the head is red. Though the antennas are with- 

 out the usual tuft of scales, and the palpi are longer than usual, I should 

 judge that it was a Nephopteryx. 



REMARKS ON CERTAIN LABRADOR PYRALID^. 



Ill his Beitrilge zur Schmetterlings Fauna von Labrador 

 (Entomologiscber Zeituug, Stettiu, 1870, p. 371), Herr H. 

 B. Moschler makes some intei-esting remarks on the moths 

 described by American writers from Labrador. As soon as I 



