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EUPHANESSA Packard (18G4). 



Type: Niidaria mendica Walk. 



mcndica (.Walk), Cat. Lep. B. M. 2, p. 576 ; Eudule Useriata H.-S., Exot. S. 19, 

 fig. 441 ; Enphanessa mendica Pack., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., 1804, p. 102; 

 Kob., Ann., N. Y. Lye, Vol. 9, PI. 1, fig. 1 ; Stretch, Zyg. Bomb., p. 53, 

 PI. 2, fig. 9. (Canada to Middle States.) 



Dryocampa rubicuuda {Fair.) var. alba Grote. 



I have received this singular variety from Professor Townend 

 Glover of the Agricultural Department. Both sexes are entirely of 

 a creamy white, the wings and body having lost all yellow and rosy 

 tintings. The feet remain pink and the costae beneath at base are 

 sometimes faintly suffused. The specimens received were from 

 Kansas, and a study of the geographical limits of this distinct form 

 would prove interesting. Prof. Glover has figured this form on his 

 unpublished plates of Lepidoptera, 



NOCTUAE. 



Acronycta suboclirea Grote. 



S . — A species allied to A. Verrillii and A. hrumosa, larger and recognisable 

 by the dark fuscous hind wings strongly tinged with subocherous from the 

 base outwardly. Fore wings dark blue gray, much shaded with blackish 

 Reniform and orbicular large, incompletely ringed with deep black. The trans- 

 verse lines are much as in Verrillii ; beyond the t. p. line the black shading 

 suffuses the wing above internal angle ; the narrow black terminal space ap- 

 pearing as wedge shaped marks between the teeth of the pale s. t. line supe- 

 riorly. The median space shows a black streak before the distinct median 

 shade on cell 2. The fringes are subdentate, pale tipped, with an interior dark 

 hair line. On the hind wings they are whitish with an interior line. Beneath 

 dusty ochery tinted, the primaries largely fuscous with the costa pale, dotted 

 with blackish and traces of three outer transverse blackish shade lines. Hind 

 wings with a deeply scalloped median line, a discal lunule and terminal fuscous 

 shading. Head and thorax like fore wings ; palpi rather long and slender 

 whitish at base, second joint black, terminal joint gray. 



Expanse, 37 m. m. St. Catherines (Geo. Norman, Escj.); New 

 York (Coll. B. 8. N. S.). 



BUL. BUr. soc. NAT. SCI. (20) SEl'TEJIBEU, 1874. 



