172 fiNtOMOLOGlCAL NEWS. [June, 'o2 



Description of an Apparently New Species of Palindia. 



By W. J. Holland. 



Through the kindness of Mr. H, D. Merrick of New Bright- 

 ton, Pa., I have been permitted to carefully examine a speci- 

 men of the genus Palindia captured by him last year fly- 

 ing among low herbage in the outskirts of the town of New 

 Brighton. I have carefully examined the literature of the sub- 

 ject and am inclined to believe that we are dealing with a new 

 species of the genus, although the specimen in certain respects 

 comes very near to Palindia niabis Guenee, which is a synonym 

 for Palijidia fnmata of Felder and Rogenhofer. There is no 

 traflfic between New Brighton and tropical America, so far as 

 is known, unless it be in tropical fruits. There is a bare possi- 

 bility that the insect may have been imported from the South, 

 but the specimen presents the appearance of having freshly 

 emerged and is in good condition. It is altogether improbable 

 that so frail a creature should have, by the action of the wind, 

 and by the powers of flight, been transported from the tro- 

 pics to the locality where it was captured. 



Palindia merricki sp. nov.— Front, palpi, collar, thorax and tegulae 

 dark wood brown ; upper side of abdomen paler wood brown ; lower 

 side of thorax and abdomen ashen gray. Legs concolorous, the tarsi 

 white, ringed with black. The primaries are brown, more or less irro- 

 ated with purplish scales, clouded near the middle with a dark purplish 

 shade and laved on the outer margin with the same color. There is a 

 dark basal line which extends from the costa to the median vein. The 

 transverse anterior and median lines run ol)li<iuely from the costa to the 

 inner margin, very nearly parallel to each other, the transverse anterior 

 terminating about the middle of the inner margin, the median line termi- 

 nating just before the irmer angle. The median line is defined externally 

 by a pale yellow line running from the lower margin of the cell toward 

 the inner angle, and this line is in turn defined externally by a narrow 

 dark brown line. At the end of the cell there is a large pale reniform 

 spot surrounded by a dark brown line. The transverse posterior line is 

 sharply angulated below the costa and then runs from the costa to the 

 inner angle, constantly diminishing in width. Between this and the sub- 

 terminal line are some reddish shades. The subterminal line is more or 

 le»s t>b»cure, angulated inwardly just below the costa and on vein 2. At 

 the points where this line is bent inwardly, and half way between these 

 points, are dark brown shades produced inwardly. The marginal line is 



