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will obtain a few specimens of this moth, and it will then vanish and 
he will meet with it no more. 
Johnson’s Pkiocycla, P. Johnsonaria , new species. 
It has been remarked above that the insect treated upon is the type 
of a distinct genus, of which genus it is the only member as yet 
known. Whilst I am engaged in preparing the foregoing account, 
there comes to me, through the open door of my study, attracted by 
the light of the lamp, a moth whose scalloped wings and other 
characters at once show it to be intimately related to the one under 
consideration, a second species pertaining to the same genus. It was 
upon the 28th of June that this specimen presented itself to me, the 
same date on which the moth of the preceding species began to come 
forth from the pupae in my cages. Anxious to obtain other speci¬ 
mens of this variety, I, on several of the following evenings, went 
with a lighted lamp to different parts of the grounds around my 
residence, but without any success. 
I dedicate this interesting discovery to the memory of the late 
Secretary of our State Agricultural Society, lion. B. P. Johnson, 
whose efficient aid, rendered on numerous occasions, has much 
assisted me in these investigations of our noxious insects. 
This species may be briefly defined as follows : Yellowish brown; 
fore wings with a subcentral black dot and crossed obliquely by 
two distant blackish lines; hind wings with a faint brown band 
and a blackish line; under side pale lemon yellow, posteriorly 
grayish brown, with numerous brown freckles and a blackish band 
and line crossing both wings. Width of the male 1.35. 
Tlie Zieacl is tarnished gray, and is flattened in front. The palpi are blackish 
along their under side; their third joint small, twice as long as thick, almost 
cylindric, slightly diminishing in thickness toward the tip, which is obtusely 
pointed. The antennae are more than half the length of the body and pecti¬ 
nated in the male, the stalk being gray and its branches pale brown and iden¬ 
tical in their details with those of the preceding species, the last ten or twelve 
joints being destitute of branches and merely toothed along their under side. 
The thorax is tarnished gray. The abdomen is yellowish brown, unicolor with the 
wings, with a row of dusky brown spots along each side. Beneath it is gray, 
freckled with pale brown spots and dots. Its tip is on a line with the inner 
angles of the hind wings. The wings are moderately broad, the fore pair measur¬ 
ing 0.63 by 0.32, and the hind pair 0.51 by 0.37. The fore wings have their 
costal edge straight, with but a slight short curve at each end; the hind edge 
oblique and convexly rounded, with the outer third of its length straight, this edge 
being slightly scalloped, with shallow sinuses and short broad lobes, which are 
rounded and not at all angular. They are of an umber brown color, the basal two- 
thirds of then length tinged with dull yellow; the costal margin dark grayish, 
