4l6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 



ALASKA INSECTS. 



By W. J. Holland, L.L.D. 



PART II. 



Family LYC^NID^. 



Genus LTGiENA Fabricius. 



24. L. saepiolns Bdv. 



I i , Fort Selkirk, N. W. Territory, June 28. (Young.) 



25. L. aira Edwards. 



I S , Tagish Lake, B. C, June 21 (Koonce) ; i $ , White 

 Horse, N. W. Territory, June 24 (Young) ; S S , Lake La- 

 barge, N. W. Territor)', June 27 (Young). 



26. L. sp. ? 



I have a number of specimens of a form which is near L. 

 afra Edw., and yet .still nearer to L. lygdamas Doubleday, 

 which puzzle me. They are not exactly referable to either 

 species. They may represent a boreal race of L. lygdamas, but 

 I am in doubt, and therefore withhold further comment. 



27. L. lotis Lintner. 



This species was originally described from Mendocino, Cali- 

 fornia. The specimens probably came from Mt. Shasta. It 

 appears to be common in Alaska, 



25 <? ^ , 9 9 , Eagle City, Ala.ska, July 8-14. (Young.) 



28. L. ynkona sp. nov. 



cf — Wings on the upper side uniformly dark purplish violet, the outer 

 margin of both wings marked by a very narrow brown line, the fringes 

 whitish. On the under side the wings are obscure ashen-gray, both wings 

 at the base obscured by bluish gray scales. The primaries have a discal 

 mark at the end of the cell surrounded by a light whitish circle. Beyond 

 this there is a transverse line of discal spots, six in number, gradually in- 

 creasing in size from the costa to the inner margin, the spot nearest the 

 inner margin being double. Beyond this along the m^gin is an even row 

 of fine narrow dark linear spots, succeeded inwardly by a corresponding 

 series of heavier .sagittate markings, the points turned toward the base. 

 The secondaries are marked by three small black spots near the base, 

 arranged in a straight series, one above the cell, one on the cell, and one 

 about the middle of the inner margin. At the end of the cell is a trans- 

 verse linear dark spot margined with white ; beyond this a curved limbal 

 serieH of black spots margined witli white ; the upper live spots forming 

 an evenly curved series beyond the cell, the sixth, which is a double spot, 



