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IX. North American Pyralides 



BY A. R, GROTE, 

 [Read before this Society, January 32, 1875.] 



Asopia (levialis, n. s. 



? . — About the size of olinalis. The color is pale, not so reddish or purplish 

 as usual and the fringes are not golden or yellow. As my specimen is not 

 fresh, the tints are not to be exactly ascertained, but the tone is evidently more 

 brownish and less reddish on the darker fields of the wing, while the second- 

 aries are pale and more transparent than usual ; the general tint is ocliery. 

 But this species is at once to be distinguished from all the four hitherto de- 

 scribed N. A. species, viz.: cortalis, olinalis (= trentonalis), Jiimonialis, and 

 binodulalis, by the shape of the transverse lines. These are darker than the 

 wing, not paler as is usual, on the primaries springing from costal ochery 

 blotches, their relative position being much as in olinalis. But the exterior 

 line on the fore wings is evenly and shortly dentate below the costal blotch 

 and the interior line is inwardly excavate between the median nervure and 

 vein 1. The dentations of the exterior line are four or five in number and are 

 discontinued below the s. m. fold. On the hind wings the dark lines are less 

 sinuate than in olinalis. Beneath pale, testaceous, shining, the lines faint. 



Expanse, 14 m. in. Habitat, Quebec (F. X. Belanger, Iso. 72). 



Asopia squamealis. 



Pseudasopia squamealis Grote, Bull., Vol. 1, p. 172. 



I have been led, by the discovery of ocelli in an allied species de- 

 scribed below, to denude a specimen of this species and I cannot find 

 any trace of ocelli, so that the character I have given the genns is 

 erroneous and the species must be referred as above. It appears to 

 me to fall in between the common farinalis and the species repre- 

 sented by costal is, olinalis, etc. 



Arta, n. g. 



This species is small, of the size of Condi/lolomia jxirticipialis. The orna- 

 mentation is like Asojria ; two yellow median lines cross the vinous primaries. 

 The ocelli are present. The maxillae are moderate, scaled, concealed by the 

 somewhat dependent palpi. The fore wings are rather narrower, the external 

 margin straighter than in Asopia. The antennae are simple. 



