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MEMOIllS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF aCIENCES. 
G-luphisia lintneri (Grote.) 
(PI. I, fig. 18.) 
Dasycliira Unineri Grote, Can. Eut,, ix, p. 85, 1877. 
Gliiphma lintneri Dyar, Can. Ent. xxiii, p. 159, 1891. 
Siuitli, List Lep. Bor. Ainer., p. 30, 1891. 
Kirby, Cat. LoiJ. Hot,, i, ji. 59.3, 1892. 
PaoP., psyche, vi., p. 500, Aug., 1893. 
Neuiii. aiul Dyar, Trans, Amer. Ent. Soc., xxi, p. 194, 1894; Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., ii, p. 115, 
Sept., 1894. 
Originally described as a Dasycbiraj tins is a true Glupliisia, but, Tvitb (K severa and 
■avimaciilaj belonging to a di.stinct section of the genus. The autennte are provided with long, 
close iiectinations; the body is stout and hairy, aud there is not a well-inaidved dorsal tuft present; 
the costa of the fore wings is much more convex than in G. septentrionis^ and tiie apex somewhat 
produced as iu G. severa. Body stout and hairy; anteinne almost plumose, having long, dense 
branches, white, the branches du.sky. 
Body and ivings ash or mouse gray. Head nearly as large in proportion as in G, sepientrionis; 
l)alpi feeble, small, not distinct from the hairs of the front. Fore wings with the co.sta much more 
convex than in G, sepientrionis, and the apex somewhat produced, 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 septenfrionis, slightly bent outward on the cubical vein; extradiscal line 
slightly scalloped, bent inward on the costal edge. A very faint, linear, dark, discal spot. A 
tawny or clay-yellow (luteous) patch at base of wing in the median space aud passing a little 
beyond the basal line. The space between the inner and the outer (extradiscal) line is filled iu 
with clay-yellow, forming abroad median luteous band which is nearly as wide on the inner edge 
as on the costal edge. There is also a series of submarginal lunate faint luteous patches or 
blotches, with some black scales iuterniingled. The costal edge is entirely free from luteous 
scales. Hind wings dark, 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 vshade. Beneath the wings 
are dusky aud both crossed by a coinmou dark diffuse line. No discal spot, asiu wrightii and var, 
mnmacula. 
Expanse of wings, 3 40 mm.; length of body, 3 15 mm. 
Geographical distribution , — Plattsburg, N. Y., April 23, flying to light April 12, 20, 23, 30, 
May 11 (G. H. Hudson) (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. G217); Franconia, N. H. (Mrs, Slosson); New 
York!, April (H, S. Nat. Mus.); New York (French). 
Gluphisia severa Edwards. 
(PI. I, figs. 14-16.) 
Glupliisia severa H. Edwards, Ent. Amcr., ii, p. 167, Dec., 1886. 
Glupliisia avimaciila Hudson, Ent. Kews, ii. No. 8, p. 155, Oct., 1891. 
Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lep. Het., p. 593, 1892. 
Dyar, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xxi, p. 194, 1894. 
Glupliisia severa var. Packard. 
Melia danhi/i Neum. Can. Ent., xxiv, p. 225, 1802. 
Emnelia danhiji Neiim. Can. Ent., xxv, p. 25, 1892. 
Eumelia severa Neum. and Dyar, Trans. Amor. Eut. Soc,, xxi, p. 194, June, 1894 ; .Touru. N. Y. Ent. Soc., ii, p. 115, 
Sept., 1894. 
Larva. 
Dyar, Psycho, vi, p. 503, Aug., 1893. 
Of the two female specimens placed under G, severa in the Edwards collection, one (not the 
type, which is a $ from Soda Springs, Cal., April 15, with eggs), probably added after his 
description was published, I regarded provisionally as a specimen of G, wrightii. Its locality is 
Sierra Nevada, Oak (and Mr. Beuteunuiller suggests that it may have been taken at Mount 
Shasta). The specimen is perfectly preserved, and in its structural characters is closely allied to 
G, severa. The thorax has a median tuft, as in G, severa. From the type of icrighiii it differs in 
the more distinct and darker markings, being less rubbed. 
