336 EDWARD NORTON. 



mandibles and tip of palpi yellow; tegulae, V-spot, scutel, a transverse 

 line on base of nietatliorax, spots on the sides of the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 

 6th segments and the apex of tergum and four bands beneath on the 

 same segments, yellow; legs yellow, varying to ferruginous, the coxae, 

 except at tip and a spot on the femora,' black; a broad blackish band 

 covers basal two-thirds of superior and most part of inferior wings; 

 apex of wings hyaline, stigma large, rounded, black. 



S . — The male has no V-spot on mesothorax nor transverse line on 

 metathorax, no yellow spot on 3rd segment of tergum and no black 

 spots on femora. The basal joints of antennae are yellow beneath. 



Var. a. % . — No V-spot. The edge of fascia on wings is not clearly 

 defined from the clear apex. The 2nd brachial has a complete cross- 

 line. 



United States (Smiths. Inst.). 



Pennsylvania (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc), New York, Connecticut, 4 S ,29. 



The female has in one case four discoidal cells, the first submarginal 

 receiving two recurrent nervures. 



9. L. plagiata. 



Lyda plagiata, Klug, Berl. Mag. ii, 1808, 278, Tab. 7, fig 6, 9 . Lepel. Mon. 

 Tenth, b, 11. 



Pamphilius plagiatus, Latr., Eneye. No. 6. 



Black; middle of tergum black. Length 0.44. Br. wings, 0.80 inch. 



"Antennae black ; head luteo-testaceous, vertex black ; thorax black, 

 anterior part luteo-testaceous; abdomen black, excepting the base of ter- 

 gum, which is pale testaceous. Legs luteous; wings fuscous." 



" Baltimore, N. Am." 



% . — Antennae 26-jointed, 3rd joint one-half longer than 4th ; head of 

 one color, except a black spot extending from ocelli to occiput within 

 sutures ; tegulae and prothorax pale ; legs pale, the coxae and apex of 

 hinder tibiae black, tarsi fuscous ; wings violaceous, semi-obscure, mar- 

 ginal cross-nervure not coinciding with that below; the 2nd brachial 

 cell with cross-line, broken at bottom ; a round obscure spot in the 

 contraction of lanceolate cell. 



Tennessee, (Smiths. Inst.); Pennsylvania, (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc). 

 Two %. 



10. Lyda canadensis, n. sp. 



Color black; with slender orbital spots, mouth, tegulse, seutels, pleura and 

 venter straw yellow; a rufous band on tergum. Length 0.45; Br. wings 0.90 

 inch. 



% . — Antennae black, sub-serrate, as long as to base of abdomen, 

 slender, 22-jointed ; 1st joint twice as long as 2nd, 3rd as long as 4th 

 and 5th together, apical join-t a little longer than the preceding ; head 



