144 Twenty-sixth Report on the State Museum. 



with hlack scales^ and connected with a broader black spot resting on 

 the colta. 



Spilosoma latipennis Stretch. 



This species is described and figured by Mr. Stretch,* " from one 

 imperfect broken ? (wanting the body) received from Mr. James 

 Angus, of West Farms, E". Y., without any definite locality attached 

 to the specimen." 



Its description (loc. cit.) is as follows : " ? , white. Head, thorax 

 and patagia white. Eyes black. Palpi brownish, white beneatl). 

 Legs white, with the coxm 2.w^ femora of the anterior pair hright pinlc 

 inwardly ; tibiae and tarsi of the same pair black inwardly, white 

 outwardly. All the wings are pure silky-white, immaculate. The 

 eosta of the primaries is decidedly convex from the base to the apex. 

 Expanse of wings, ? , 1.75 in. ; length of body, 0.70 inch." 



In the collection of Mr. O. Meske is a (^ and $ of this rare species, 

 captured at Center, N". Y., June 19th, 1872. They show the follow- 

 ing features in addition to those above mentioned : The antennae are 

 white above, black beneath, and with black pectinations of about the 

 same length as in S. virginica. Compared with that species, the 

 wings are thinner scaled ; the thoracic hairs are longer and finer, 

 readily floated in every direction by the breath, hiding the patagia; 

 abdomen of the $> not carinated. 



The femora in these are not *' bright pink," but of a peculiar bright 

 red shade, between an orange and a vermilion ; the coxae of the ? of 

 a paler red, and of the ,5 of a yellowish-red with brown hadrs superi- 

 orly beneath the head. Palpi of the $> , white inwardly and black 

 outwardly ; the $ has only a few fuscous hairs outwardly. Expanse 

 of wings of the 6 1.^5 in. ; of the ? 1.80 in. Length of the body of 

 the $> .65 inch ; of the ? .60 inch. 



Mr. Grote informs me that a specimen of this species is in the col- 

 lection of the Buifalo Society of Natural Sciences, which was captured 

 in the vicinity of Buffalo. 



Eiicliaetes Oregonensis Stretch. 



In the collection of Mr. O. Meske, of Albany, is an example of this 

 species, a male, taken on the wing at Center, near Alban}^, on the 

 13th of June; another example, also a male, was taken by him in the 

 same locality May 25, 1869, and is now in the cabinet of Mr. C. Y. 



* Illus. Zyg.-Bomb. N. Amer., I, p. 133, pi. 6, f. 5. 



