96 ME.MOIHS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Gluphisia liutueri ((irote.) 



(PI. 1,11-. 18.) 



Daai/chira Undien Grote, Can. Ent., is, p. 85, 1877. 

 Gluj)hi«hi Ihitiitii Myar, Can. Ent. xxiii, p. 159, 1891. 



Smith, List Lep. IS.ir. Ainer., p. 30, 1891. 



Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., i, p. 59.3, 1892. 



Pack., Psyche, vi., p. 5(X), Au^., 1893. 



\cuni. and Uyar, Tr.ms. Amer. ICnt. Soc, .\xi. ]>. 191, 1894; Jonru. N. Y. Ent. Soc. ii.p. 115, 

 Sept., 1H9L 



Origiually described as a Dasycliiia, this is a true (ilupliisia, but, with G. scrcra aud 

 avimaciihi, beloujiiiii;' to a distinct section of the yenus. Tlie antenna- are ]iiovided with long, 

 close pectinations; the body is stout and hairy, and there is not a well niarlced dorsal tutt i)resent; 

 the costii of the fore wiugs is much more convex than in (1. nrjilcntrionis. and the ajiex sonuMvliat 

 jn-oduced as in (i.xcvvni. lUxly stout and hairy: antenna' almost ii]nnio>f. having long, dense 

 branches, white, tlie branches dusky. 



Body and wiugs ash or mouse gray. Head nearly as large in proportion as in 0. sepientrionis; 

 ])alpi feeble, snndl, not distiiu;t from the hairs of the front. Fore wings with the costa much more 

 CDUvex than in (/. ncplciitrioiiis, and tin; ajjex somewhat prodnce(l, of the same color as the 

 body; a basal black line bent outward at a right angle on the costal vein, and again sending out 

 a distinct long loop on the cubical vein; the middle or intradiscal black line firm, straight, not 

 curved inward as in scptcntrionis, sliglitly bent outward on the cubi(;al vein; extradiscal line 

 slightly scalloi)ed, bent inward on the costal edge. A very faint, linear, dark, discal spot. A 

 tawny or clay-yellow (luteous) i)atch at base of wing in the median space and passing a little 

 beyond the basal line. The space between the inner and the outer (extradiscal) line is lilled in 

 with clay-yellow, forming a broad median luteous band wliich is nearly as wide on the inner edge 

 .as on the costal edge. There is also a series of snbnmrginul lunate faint luteous patches or 

 blotches, with some black scales intermingled. The costal edge is entirely free from luteous 

 scales. Hind wings daik, like the fore wings, with a distinct dark line on the outer third, which 

 is most distinct on the inner edge of the wing, succeeded by a light siiade. Beneath the wings 

 are dusky and both crossed by a common dark diffuse line. No diseal sjjot, as in wriglifii and var. 

 ■(tfimacnla. 



Exi)anse of wings, S 40 nun.; length of body, S J.") mm. 



(Icogmphival dintribittioii. — I'lattsbnrg, N. Y., Ai)ril 23, flying to light April 12, 20, 23, 30, 

 May 11 (G. H. Hudson) (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 0217); Franwmia, N. H. (Mrs. Slosson); New 

 York?, April (U. S. Nat. Mus.); New York (French). 



Gluphisia severa ICil wards. 



(PI. 1, \\ii%. 14-1(3.) 

 Gluphisia ervcrn H. Edwards, Ent. Amer., ii, p. 167, Dec, 1886. 

 Gluphisia avintKcula Hudson, Ent. News, ii, No. 8, p. 155, Oct., 1891. 

 Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lep. Het., p. 593, 189L'. 

 Dyar, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, xxi, p. 194, 1894. 

 Gluphisia nevcra var. «/«ss«h id-, Packard. 

 ilelin (l(iiihi/i Ncnin. Can. Ent., xxiv, ]>. 22.i, 1892. 

 Enmitia (luiibjii Nenni. Can. Ent., xxv, p. 25, 1892. 



Eumeliu aeveia Neuni. aud Dyar, Trans, .\nier. Ent. Soc, xxi, ji. 191. .Jnne, 1894; .lonni. N. Y. Ent. Snc. ii, p. 115, 

 Sept., 1894. 



Larva. 

 Dyar, Psyche, vi, p. .503, Aug., 1893. 



Of the two female sjiecimens jjlaced under 0. severa in the Edwards collection, one (not the 

 type, which is a 9 from Soda Springs, Cal., Ain-il 15, with eggs), probably added after his 

 description was published, I regarded provisiomilly as a si)ecimen of (1. irrii/htii. Its locality is 

 Sierra Nevada, Cal. (and .Mr. lieutenmiiller suggests tlnit it may have been taken at Mount 

 Shasta). The sjjecimen is |)erfectly preserved, and in its structural characters is clo.sely allied to 

 G. severa. The thorax has a median tuft, as in G. severa. From the type of ■wrightii it differs in 

 the more distinct and darker markings, being less rubbed. 



