liitliophaiH; Tiiaxtori n. h. 



f, . — Of a (If^licato lilac pray, IIk; n-iiiforiii sjuuhil witli riiiMy. 'Iln; (o.Kta at 

 bant!, aliovo tlw; diHliiicf, haHal daHli, Hoim-what vvhitiMli. 'J'lic traiiHV<-r.se lines ar« 

 tolerably distinct. The t. a. lino is well removed outwardly, jiale with a nar- 

 row external black edging, waved, distinctly notched on vein 1, its upper por- 

 tion fused with the edging of the large orbicular. In its course the line is 

 more outwardly obli(iue than in confoi'mis, and furthfsr rf^moved from the 

 base of the wing. There is no claviform spot (evident in conforinU), the black 

 eubmedian dash running from the t. a. line itself across the median space to 

 the t. p. lino. The posterior half of the median space is darker than the ba- 

 sal portion limited by the median shade, much as in conformii. The reniform 

 is smaller than in covformin, differently shaped, being excavated inwardly as 

 well as outwardly, distinctly black edged inferiorly. The t. p. line is more 

 distinct than in covformis, indicated by pale denticulations, of which one is 

 quite noticeable where the line receives the submedian dash. The sub ter- 

 minal line is shaded with blackish outwardly, quite distinct and with a deter- 

 minate inflection opposite the cell, not nearly so apparent in conformvi. An 

 oblique blackish shade above the internal angle below which the wing is 

 whitish. The s. t. line in conformis is brown and more or less dotted, not 

 shaded so distinctly with whitish anteriorly, our species approaching ZincArerm 

 in the contrast of shading. Hind wings fuscous with pale fringes. Beneath 

 rosy fuscous with obliterate faded traces of the usual markings. Thorax like 

 the fore wings, dark at the sides. Abdomen carinated, with very minute dor- 

 sal tuftings, fuscous, rosy at the sides. 



Exjjanse, 40 m. m. May 10th, 1874. 



Our species seems in a measure iutermcdiate between conformis 

 and Zinckenii. I cannot consider it the American representative 

 of either species, since it differs quite markedly on close examina- 

 tion, while on the whole, perhaps, nearer to conformis. Thaxteri 

 resembles ZincTccnii in the sharpness of the lines, the tone is, how- 

 ever, loss cold and the suffusion of the reniform reminds us of 

 conformis^z^\\Q dorsal abdominal tufts are very inconspicuous, but 

 I think are present; it would thus agree with conformis, which 

 Lederer places in his first group. In my arrangement it would fall 

 into the subgenus Graptolitlia, my first group including only socia 

 and seviihrunnea among the European species.* 



Dicopis Thaxterianns n. s. 



5 . — The tibial claw is present, and the testaceous antennae are bi pectinate, 

 somewhat less heavily so than in D. muralis. The colors are mainly those of 



* I Irave received also from Mr. Thaxter a uew DicojAs from the same locality, ■which I here 

 dcscribt!. 



