150 Entomological news. [April, '07 



I can detect no hair pencil in the male ; neither is it a Cyma- 

 tophora ( — Diastictis) , as the male antennae are plumose. 



The two types of the true ScUdosema correllatum are not 

 conspecific; the male, from Colorado, is darker, more heavily 

 marked, and is the one from which the original description 

 was chiefly drawn; the female, from California, is a white 

 insect with broader wings and the outer margin of the prima- 

 ries below the falcation is more produced. The Colorado type 

 is, therefore, left to represent Hulst's species, and the Cali- 

 fornian specimen is herewith described as new. 



Selidosema pallescens n. sp. 



$. — Expanse, 26 mm. — Ground color, creamy-white, except the upper 

 side of the primaries, which is white. Head, palpi, thorax and 

 ahdomen with a scattering of brown scales. Primaries with dark 

 brown scales, sparsely and pale brown-ochre ones more numerously 

 scattered over the surface, these latter forming small squares along 

 the inner half of the costa. Basal line brown, broadest between 

 costa and radius, and from there is incomplete to inner margin, 

 where it is very dark brown. Median line visible only on costa, where 

 it appears as a brown-ochre, squarish patch, which extends slightly 

 into the discal space. Discal spot dark brown, transversely oval, 

 situated at end of discal space. Outer space with two widely separated 

 brown lines. The inner begins on the costa one-third from the apex 

 and forms a slight S to inner margin ; below radius 5 to immediately 

 before cubitus 2 this line is very faint, but is otherwise broad and 

 distinct. The outer line begins on the costa, midway between the 

 apex and the inner line, and extends toward inner line to media 1 and 

 then runs parallel with it to inner margin; this line is faint in the 

 same place as the inner line, and is also much narrower than that line. 

 In the space between these two lines there is a small brown spot 

 just above media 3 and a little below this is a large patch, which 

 extends to the inner margin. The marginal line shows only between 

 radius 5 and media 3, where it appears as three black lunules. Fringes 

 checkered brown-ochre and white. Secondaries with a scattering of 

 brown scales along inner margin. Discal spot round, distinct. Mar- 

 ginal line broken; most obvious toward apex. Outer margin scalloped, 

 each scallop tipped with pale brown. Beneath, the primaries have 

 a scattering of ochreous scales, thickest at the costa and apex; the 

 secondaries are peppered chiefly with brown scales, though also some 

 ochre ones toward outer margin and at apex. Discal spot present on 

 all wings. 



Type : one female from California in the Hulst collection 

 at Rutgers College. 



