176 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



Beneatli, body and legs obscure purplish, abdomen reddish. Wings 

 reddish-fuscous, with common dark shade line, and discal marks equally 

 distinct. Uxpansion, 33 millimetres. Old town, Me. {Mr. Charles Fish). 

 The primaries are more pointed at apices than in janualis. The dark 

 shade before s. t. line and obsolete orbicular are strong characters. The 

 male antennse are pyramidal-toothed, ciliate ; hind wings pale fuscous. 



Hadena viaiLANS, n. sp. 



9 . — Eyes naked, lashless. Abdomen untufted; thorax tufted at base; 

 legs unarmed. Blackish purple-brown, deeper- shaded over costal region. 

 Collar and base of head pale yellowish, discolorous. Subterminal line 

 near the margin, pale, followed by dark scales, which become velvety- 

 black below vein 3. Four pale anteapical dots, wide apart. Median 

 lines obliterate. Discal marks distinct, well-sized ; reniform with a vel- 

 vety-black annulus on the inside, excavate outwardly, filled in with 

 whitish scales ; orbicular concolorous, subequal, outwardly oblique, with 

 complete velvety-black annulu^. Hind wings pale fuscous, with double, 

 diffuse, subterminal band and discal lunule reflected from beneath. 

 On the under surface, the discal lunule on primaries is open, on second- 

 aries solid ; the hind wings are powdered with brownish ; fore wings 

 blackish. Abdomen like hind wings ; thorax like primaries. Above, 

 the primaries show a little reddish staining at the base, along the s. t. 

 line and on median space. Expansion, 32 millimetres. Orono, Me. 

 {Prof. C. H, Fernald). 



This species is easily known by the characters of the subterminal line 

 and stigmata. 



Hadena cristata, Harvey, MS. 



(? . — Thorax ferruginous, strongly crested ; body comparatively slender ; 

 abdomen tufted ; size large. Fore wings dusky ochreous, with all the 

 markings dotted and fragmentary. Lines marked in black on costa. 

 Eeniform barely indicated with a black, central dot. T. p. line a double 

 series of black dots, the inner line represented by a white curved streak 

 crossing a dark shade on submedian fold, thus allying the moth to cu. 

 culliiformis and verbascoides. Terminally the wing is shaded blackish, 

 twice more prominently at the middle and at internal margin across the 

 narrow, pale s.t. line. Fringes blackish, cut with ferruginousochrey at end 

 of veins. A fine ferruginous basal streak and internal margin shaded 

 with rusty. Hind wings fuscous, with rusty-ochre fringes, and shaded 

 with ochrey along external margin. Beneath pale ochrey, with rusty 

 tinge; on hind wings a waved mesial line marked on the veins and a 

 discal lunule. Primaries with lunule and straight line, double and angu- 

 late at costa. Expansion, 45 millimetres. Buffalo {A. B. Grote). 



Hadena duct a, n. sp. 



5 — A large species resembling eastanea and some of the European 

 allied forms in appearance. Abdomen tufted. Fore wings black or 

 blackish. Subterminal line powdery, white, narrow, continuous, preceded 



