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wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures brown-black, upper nervure of third 

 discoidal cell bent downwards at about the middle, so that the cell is nar- 

 rowed at base; legs, including coxae, white; spot on coxae and trochanters 

 within, broad stripe on femora within, tips of four posterior tibiae and of 

 their tarsal joints, black; abdomen brown-black, rather closely punctured, 

 segments 2-5 above with a rounded elevation on each side about the mid- 

 dle; segment; i and 3-5 quadrate; segment 2 rather longer than broad; 

 ovipositor as long as the body, honey-yellow, sheaths black. Length .40 

 inch. 



r^. — More slender than the $ ; head, metathorax and abdomen jet-black; 

 face with a fine whitish pubescence; all the abdominal segments longer 

 than broad and clothed with a short, fine, whitish sericeous pubescence; 

 basal segment above with a longitudinal central groove. Length .37 — .40 

 inch. 



Described from one female in collection Amer. Ent. Soc. from 

 Missouri, and two males reared by Dr. Hamilton, as stated above. 

 — E. T. C] 



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NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY HENRY SKINNER, M. D. 



A Sphinx not known in American Collections. — Proto- 

 parce dalica was described by Kirby in Trans. Eat. Soc. London 

 (1877), p. 243. Locality Canada. There is a good figure of it 

 on page 70 in the " Aid to the Identifications of Insects," Vol. i, 

 by C. O. Waterhouse. Dr. H. Strecker thinks this is an aber- 

 rant form of P. rustica, and such it will likely prove to be. 



Arctia pallida Pack. — Prof. J. B. Smith, in "Can. Ent." 

 February, 1890, p. 35, says " the type oi pallida is in the collec- 

 tion of the Am. Ent. Soc, where I have several times seen it. 

 It is certainly not an Arctia, but perhaps nearer Seirardia.' ' The 

 specimen in the collection" of the Society was marked type on the 

 authority of Mr. Aaron. He showed it to Prof Packard, when 

 he was here on a visit, who said he thought it might be his type. 

 The specimen has a Pennsylvania locality label on it, and also 

 Dr. Lewis' name. In the original description of the species Prof. 

 Packard says, " I am indebted to Mr. Calverly for the loan of 

 this fine, and apparently very rare species." Locality given is. 

 New York. The specimen in question, in my opinion, is an aber- 

 ration of Hyphantria cunea of Drury, but it also answers to the 

 description of A. pallida. Is pallida known to exist ? has any 

 one the species ? Is our specimen the type ? 



