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distinct median lines on the fore wings, -wliicli latter are of a rusty olivaceous 

 ochreous. Tlie reniform appears merely as a pale luniform mark looking of 

 a piece -with the t. p. line. This latter in S. WalJceri is dark, single, narrow, 

 irregular or wavy, or a little interspaceally notched over the median nervules. 

 Hind wings blackish, with fringes like the fore Avings and thorax in color. 

 Beneath like the fore wings above, irrorate with black scales, with distinct 

 blackish discal spot and median band, the latter centrally more deeply indented 

 than usual. Costal edge of primaries straight. 



Expanse, 38 m. m. 



(24.) Scopelosoma Walkeri. 



I have my type before me and it agrees with the specimens taken 

 about Buffalo before alluded to in this Bulletin. The color is dusky 

 olivaceous ochreous and the reniform is white or whitish ochreous ; 

 again the color is more rusty and the spot reddish. The costal edge 

 is straight. It appears to differ essentially from S.sidus in this par- 

 ticular, though the color is not the same. The narrow blackish t. p. 

 line has been before described. 



(25.) Scopelosoma sidus. 



Mr. H. K. Morrison sends me a specimen with this determination 

 and I find a second among my material of S. Walkeri taken about 

 Buffalo. On comparison the color of the primaries is seen to be of 

 a dusty pale brick red, the median lines distinct, blackish and as in 

 S. WalJceri and S. satellitia ; I have little doubt then that this is 

 Guenee's species. The costa of the primaries is less straight, more 

 arched than in the other species, and the median space is narrower, 

 owing to the greater proximity of the median lines. All the species 

 are nearly allied but can be readily distinguished by the characters 

 pointed out; my only doubt is as to the specific validity of the dis- 

 tinction between this species and S. Walkeri, yet the characters 

 afford good reason for a sejiarate designation. 



(26.) Xyloiuig'es hicmalis, Grote. 



S 2 . — This species has hairy eyes and in the shape of the wings is like X. 

 curialis. The ornamentation recalls that of Mamestra latex {Guen.), than 

 which this is a narrower si:)ecies, the abdomen with a basal tuft, the thorax 

 uncrested. The $ antennae are provided with bristled pectinations, the joints 

 bead-like. The female antennae are simple, brush-like. Gray, shaded witli 

 blackish, with a warm tinge, the markings on the primaries distinct. A black 



