1876.] 415 [Grote. 



Eriopus granitosa Guen., Noct. n, 295. 



Appalachicola, Dr. Chapman. This is the first specimen I have 

 ever seen of this beautiful species, which has not been previously al- 

 luded to by American writers. 



Scolecocampa liburna Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., u, 20. 



Appalachicola, Mr. Thaxter. Southern specimens of this species 

 show a red- brown shading along internal margin of primaries, and 

 on the renifbrm spot, exaggeratedly given in Geyer's figure. 



Heliophila pilipalpis sp. nov. 



A male specimen having the fades and ornamentation of })seudar- 

 gyria Guen., but without the exaggerated tufting of abdomen and 

 tibiae. Stout, with hairy eyes and smooth front, and with a curious 

 fan-shaped tuft of spreading hair arising from • the upper surface of 

 the second joint oi the unusually prominent palpi. Head, thorax 

 and anterior wings concolorous, fawn gray, like pale specimens of its 

 ally. Fore wings sparsely speckled with black. Median lines frag- 

 mentary, composed of black marks; t. a. line outwardly oblique, 

 subobsolete. Cell shaded with black. Orbicular spot wanting. Reni- 

 form narrow, pale, S-shaped, intersecting inferiorly the black discal 

 shade. T. p. line formed of double dots, connected as in pseudar- 

 gyria, but the line is more oblique and inwardly removed. Fringes 

 pinkish, as is the internal margin, the latter showing an accumulation 

 of the blaek irrorations. Hind wings whitish, with a smoky cloud- 

 ing outwardly above vein 2. Beneath whitish, without markings, 

 with the fringes on fore wings pink, and the black transverse line 

 visible on costa. Expanse 43 mill. Appalachicola, Mr. Thaxter, 

 No. 31 GO. 



Lygranthoscia seissa sp. nov. 



A moderately sized species between lynx and arcifera, remarkable 

 for the angulation of the exterior black band of primaries opposite 

 the cell. Fore wings triangulate, without defined lines, brownish 

 blaek, median space more rusty and paler, showing the large black 

 renit'orm spot; median lines obscure, indieated by difference of shad- 

 ing. Hind wings with the central portion clear dark yellow, showing 

 a large black discal spot. Marginal black band broad, sharply de- 

 fined, angulated opposite the cell; base and internal margin black. 

 Beneath the median fields of both wings yellow, secondaries darkest, 

 defined by black discal spots; basal and terminal fields blackish; 

 coital region of secondaries red, as arc more slightly the apices of 

 primaries. Thorax red-brown; abdomen black, with narrow yellow 



