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Psyche 5:299, 1888.

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January iSgo.1
PSYCHE.
Zeller,l this description being based on specimens from Colombia, S. A. In
this country it was described by Hulst
in 1887 in Entomologica Americana
(v. 3 p. 137) as Ste+tycha $d&-
ella.
The original description of the genus
was given by Heinernann under the
name Stenojtycha, in 1865, in his work
on the lepidoptera of Germany and
Swit~erland,~ but as this generic name
1 Hor. SOC. ent. ross., 1882, v. 16, p. 234. 2 Die schmetterlinge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, S6j, p. 190.
was preoccupied by Zeller,l the genus
was rechristened Melia by Heineman,
on a later page of the same worl~.~ Melia proved. however, also to be preoccupied8 as noted by Zeller in 1867'. and the cur- rent Eu-zophera was then finally pro-
posed.
1 Entom. zeitung Stettin. 1863, p. 154. Zeller's use, of this name for a gems ofpterophoridae is also illegiti- mate, as it has already been applied by Agassiz toa Medusa (Contr. nat. hist.United States, 1862,~. 2,p. 149) 2 I. c., p. 209.
3 Used previously in muscidae, pyralidae, crustacea, molhisca and botany.
* Entoni. zeitung Stettin, 1867. p. 377. DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW NORTH AMERICAN MOTHS. DATANA MODESTA, n. SO.
Head and thoracic patch yellowish
ochreous, remaining parts of thorax
rusty brown. Primaries rusty brown
with a small, elongated, discal spot on
the middle of the wing and another
smaller spot before the middle. About
the apical fourth of the wing is an ill- defined, transverse, curved band a
little darker than the ground color.
Beyond this band the wing assumes a
purplish brownish color. Secondaries
much paler than the primaries. Body
above yellowish ochreous, beneath pale
ochreous. Secondaries beneath pale
ochreous, primaries somewhat darker.
Expanse 48 mm. I 3. Hab. Kissim-
inee, Florida, May, Type Collectiofi,
Chas. Palm.
Allied to D. floridana, but differing
from it by having the thoracic patch
yellowish ochreous, and by the absence
of the two "additional transverse bands. DATANA PALMII, n. sp.
Head and thoracic patch deep vel-
vety brown, remaining parts of thorax
cinnamon brown, mixed with whitish
scales. Primaries cinnamon brown
(in one specimen nearly as deep in
color as D. angush') and thickly cov-
ered with whitish scales so as to nearly obscure the ground color. Across the
wing are four narrow, transverse bands
same as the ground color. The first on
the basal fourth, oblique ; the second a little before the middle slightly curved ; the third a little beyond the middle and



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the fourth on the apical fourth, both
these bands are curved outwardly.
Secondaries pale cinnamon brown.
Primaries beneath same color as the
secondaries above. Secondaries be-
neath ochreous. Expanse 48 mm. 4
/? 8. Hab. Delaware Water Gap.
Penn. June. Collected by Chas. Palm
to whom I gratefully dedicate this odd
species.
Allied to D. integerrin~a, from
which it can be distinguished by the
absence ofthe two discal spots, different position of the bands and also by the
different color.
Both the foregoing species were com-
pared with the types of allied species.
(? Body above and below fuscous,
pectinations of antennae blackish, stalk grayish. Primaries uniformly fuscous
with a curved, transverse band beyond
the middle, bending inwardly as it
reaches the inner margin. Secondaries
fuscous. Wings beneath somewhat
paler than above.
Expanse 15 mm.
$ .
Wholly dirty whitish above and
below. Length I 6 mm. Width 7 mm-
I $ . 2 9 9 . Collection W. Beu-
tenmuller. Hab. Enterprise, Fla. May.
Differ from all its congeners by the
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. -At
the meeting of the Entomological society of London held 7 August 1889. Dr. C. V. Riley was elected an honorary fellow in place of the late Dr. V. Signoret. The number of
honorary fellows is limited to ten, and less than forty of the most celebrated entornolo. gists in the world have been thus honored. Dr. H. A. Hagen was elected in 1863, Dr. J. absence of the aftte-apical white spot
near the inner angle, and by its plain
coloration.
LARVA. -Head and cervical shield
bright coral red. Body above mouse
color with three rows orange tubercles
along each side. Each tubercle pro-
vided with a bunch of long, silvery gray hairs. Along the subdorsal region of the second, third, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth segments is also a row of orange tubercles with silvery gray hair while
on the dorsum of the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh segment is a thick bunch of
white hairs and from the eighth segment
to the end of the body there is a broad, black stripe, with three small orange
spots on each segment. On each side
of the anterior parts of the first segment is a long, black pencil and one on the
eleventh segment which is brown at the
base. A few brown hairs are also scat-
tered here and there over the body.
Underside yellowish green. Length
about 30 mm.
FOOD-PLANTS. Live oak (+ems
virens) , and cypress ( Cttpressus} .
COCOON.-Similar to that of 0. leu-
costigma light brown, oval, composed
of fine silk, interwoven with the hair of the larva. Length 25 mm. Width
12 mm.
L. Leconte in the hame year and Dr. A. S. Packard in 1884.
Classified according to the land of their birth there are but two Americans, Drs.
Leconte and Packard.
Prof. C. H. Fernald was elected a fellow at the meeting held 4 September 1889.
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No. 160-164 were issued 2 Jan. 1890.




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