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PSYCHE.
[March 1893.
is much impaired by a previous paper
of Brauer and Bergenstamm, published
in 1891, and received the latter part of that year, in which some thirty or more
additional, old Gr new genera are
referred to North America, and which
must conflict more or less with Mr.
Townsend's genera.
I cannot join with Mr. Townsend in
his sweeping condemnation of Brauer
and Bergenstamm's work in this family.
The descriptions of these a~~thors are
ofien involved and obscure, but I believe that patient study, together with ample
material, will, almost always, solve the problems which they contain. Espe-
cially do 1 think so from the fact that
these authors have given excellent
figures of most of the genera (three
hundred and over) known to them, and
figures are usually more valuable in
this family than extended descriptions.
1 by no means wish to affirm my faith
in the validity of many of the characters used by them, but a correct interpreta-
tion of the value of these characters
will be of more service than a multi-
plication of genera.
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.
CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB.
13 January, 1893.
The 175th regular and
17th annual meeting (since incorporation) was held at 156 Brattle St. Mr. S. H. Scud- der was chosen chairman.
The annual reports of the Secretary,
Treasurer and Librarian were presented.
The following officers for 1893 were
elected : President, W. El. Ashmead of Wash- ington ; Secretary, R. Hayward ; Treasurer, S. Henshaw; Librarian, S. H. Scudder;
members at large of the Executive Com-
mittee, A. P, Morse and S. H. Scudder.
The annual address of the retiring Presi- dent, Dr. W. J. Holland, on 'lCommunal
cocoons and the moths that weave them" was next read by Mr. Scudder in the absence of the President. In this address Dr. Holland erected the genus Oecura and described the following new species : Oscura goodii,
Amz$ke cZaya and A. szdwordida.
Mr. S. H. Scudder called attention to a
somewhat similar habit in one of the Mexi- can Pieridae (Eackeira socialis) described by Westwood.
Mr. H. G. Dyar said that some individuals of Clisiocampa usually remain in the nest and undergo their transformations.
Mr. A. P. Morse, with reference to Clisio- campa, stated that he had seen a Baltimore oriole (1ctem.s boltimo~e) open a nest, but that it had considerable difficulty in opening the cocoons contained therein.
Further discussion followed in which all participated.
Mr. A. P. Morse read a short paper record- ing the occurrence of Parogm afladica at Faneuil Station, Mass., last summer and
stated that he had captured there melanistic specimens.
FOREIGN NoTEs.-M~. Charles Brongniart
has succeeded Mr. H. Lucas as assistant at the Paris museum in charge of the arthropods. We regret to record the death of the
veteran German lepidopterist, Dr. Adolph Speyer of Rhoden, the precision of whose work in the study of structure and of geo- graphical distribution has had a good
influence in science.
The eleventh part of Kolbe's Introduction to entomology continues the internal anat- omy, dealing with respiration, heat, the fatty bodies and luminosity, and begins
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53. M. Cmigii, sp. nov. 8. Antennae,
front, and upper side of thorax pale luteous. The upper and lower sides of abdomen luteous inciining to ferruginous. There is a black spot on the top of the head, a black spot in the centre of each of the patagiae, and a black spot or two in the middle of the upper part of the thorax. (The pinned specinlens before me do not enable me to give the exact number of spots upon the thorax). The
under side of the abdomen is marked with a double row of brown spots, and the legs, which are of the same color as the under side of the abdomen, are heavily margined with black. The tarsi are black banded with
yellow. The prevalent color of the wings is pale luteous. The primaries have a dark
brown ray upon the costa at the base and an interior basal ray of the same color. Beyond these are three small brown spots succeeded by a very irregular transverse median band which is divided into two parts on the costa. There is a black dot at the end of the cell, and a transverse limbal band exceedingly irregular and sharply angulated ten or twelve times. Beyond this, there is a submarginal series of black spots, of
which the first, the third, the fifth, and the sixth, reckoning from the costa, are the largest. The fringe is dark brown on the primaries. The secondaries have a num- ber of dark marks near the outer angle. The markings of the upper side reappear upon the lower side,,but are fainter than on the upper side on the primaries, and darker than on the upper side on the secondaries. The female is like the male, but larger, and the markings more distinct.
Expanse, 8, 14 mm. ; $2, 18 mm. Habitat, Benita. (January 31st, '91.)
LEPISTA, Wallengr.
54. L. xa&ho&z, sp. nov. 8. Antennae,
front, lower side of thorax, and legs testa- ceous. The collar, and upper side of the thorax, and upper and lower sides of the ab- domen are orange-luteous. The primaries on the upper side are orange-luteous with the outer border pale plumbeous. The second- aries are very pale luteous with the outer margin very narrowly edged with plumbeous from the out.er angle half way to the inner ?ngle. On the under side, the primaries are plumbeous with the costal and inne? margins luteous. The secondaries on the under side are as on the upper side.
Expanse, 25 mm. This species is most
closely allied to L. Zimbata, Butl., with the type of which I compared it, but from which it is widely different.
55. L. rno~ocii~onza, sp. nov. 8. Front
orange-luteous. Body and wings throughout pale fawn without any markings. The under side at the costa of the primaries slightly tinged with orange. Expanse, qmm.
56. L. su6umbrata, sp. nov. 3. Antennae
and front whitish. Eyes black. The upper side of the thorax and
abdomen fawn color.
The lower side of thorax and legs the same. Under side of abdomen whitish. The upper side of the primaries pale plumbeous with the costal margin narrowly edged with white. The secondaries pale luteous broadly mar- gined on the costa and at the outer angle with plumbeous. The fringes of both wings plumbeous. The lower side is marked
exactly as the upper. Female like the male but larger. Expanse, 8 25 mtn.; 30 mm.
SOZWZA, Wallengr.
57. S. deci$iem, sp. nov.
8. Antenna%
head, and thorax rufous-ochraceous. The
abdomen and lower side of thorax paler. The primaries rufous-ochi-aceous with a dark brown spot on the middle of the costa, and another smaller spot below the cell near the middle of the wing. Secondaries paler than the primaries. Under side of wings immac- ulate with the costa of the primaries slightly



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tinged with rufous, and the apex shading into dark brown. Female like the male but larger. Expanse, 8 24 mm. ; $! 30 mm.
This species is in the British Museum un- named.
NUDARIA, Haw.
58. N. >wenis, sp. nov. 8. Antennae,
front and head gray. Thorax and abdomen
above and below dark gray. Primaries dark fawn with some black marks on the costa
near the base, and four blackmarks upon the costa beyond the base. There is a very
minute black dot within the cell and a large oblong black dot at the end of the cell. A transverse angulated line crosses the wing from the first of the costal marks beyond the base and a pale irregularly curved and
strongly angulated submarginal line beyond the black dot at the end of the cell. The outer border is clouded with a number of dark marks heaviest near the outer angle, The margin has a narrow black linear dot on each of the interspaces and the fringe is concolorous. The secondaries are paler than the primaries. The under sides of both
wings are immaculate, save that there is a faint and diffused discal dot on each of them. Expanse, 18 mm.
59. N. Jacteata, sp. nov.
8. Body and
legs yellowish-white. Primaries and sec- ondaries white, the latter immaculate, the former with a few pale fawn color marks
near the base, and a curved transverse
median and a transverse submarginal band of the same color. Expanse, 15 mm.
HEMONIA, Walk.
60. H. Zuteicincta, sp. nov. 8. Body and legs whitish. Primaries pale fawn with the costa and the outer margin bright yellow. About the middle of the costa there is a pale whitish subtriangular mark bounded exter- nally by a dark line, which crosses the wing obliquely to the outer angle. The secondaries are whitish, imtnaculate.
The under side is
as the upper, but paler, and all the markings indistinct. Expanse, 15 mm.
61. 23. cost+Zaga, sp. nov.
3. Body tes-
taceous. Primaries wood-brown, darkest on the basal half. Upon the middle of the prim- aries upon the costa there is a subtriangular white spot. There is a faint curved sub- median line and an obscure poorly defined discal dot. The secondaries are testaceous. The under side uniformly pale testaceous, shining. Expanse, 15 mm.
62. 23. t~o$icaZis, sp. nov.
8. Upper side
of body dark gray. Lower side whitish. The legs dark gray. The primaries pale wood- gray, clouded near the base with blackish, beyond which there is a very faint and curved transverse line succeeded by a dark trans- verse limbal shade covering the end of the cell and extending beyond it. In the middle of this dark band is a large discal dot, whitish in color, pupilled with blackish. Beyond this shade, there is a faint curved limbal line, blackish in color margined internally with pale gray. There is a strongly angulated submarginal line, the angulations in which are most sharply produced beyond the end of the cell and near the outer angle. Margin narrowly blackish. Fringes dark gray. The secondaries are whitish, shading into testa- ceous upon the outer margin. The fringes are whitish. The under side of both wings is immaculate, pale testaceous, shading into whitish upon the inner margin of the sec- ondaries. The fringes are as upon the uppes side, dark gray upon the primaries, and
whitish upon the secondaries.
Expanse, 20
mm.
NYCTEMERIDAE.
TERINA, Walk.
63. 7'. te?zuzyascia, sp. nov. 3. Antennae black. Front white. Head black. Collar
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PSYCHE.
side of abdomen brown with a
dorsal line of
white spots.
Under side of thorax orange,
of abdomen gray, annulated with whitish. Legs dark gray, margined with whitish.
Primaries dark orange-red with the apical third black, and a large white subapical spot. The secondaries are margined with black, the band incised deeply opposite the cell. The under side of the wings is as the upper side but somewhat paler. Expanse, 33 mm. The marginal band on secondaries is nar- rower than in any other species thus fidr described.
64. T. miao~, sp. nov. 8. Antennae
orange with the pectinations black.
Front.
head, thorax, and upper side of abdomen
uniformly dark orange-red. The under side of the body, the collar, and the legs whitish. The upper side of the wings is uniformly dark orange-red, the outer half of the prim- aries deep black, and the outer third of the secondaries bordered with the same color, the border diminishing from the outer angle to the anal angle. The secondaries have a conspicuous black discal dot at the end of the cell. On the under side the inner margin of the primaries is pale yellow, while the costal area is of the same color as on the upper side ; but the outer area, which is black above is chocolate-red beneath, shading into black before the inner area. The secondaries are ferruginous, shading into orange upon the inner margin. The black outer band of the upper side is replaced upon the lower side by chocolate-red. The black discal dot is as on the upper side. Expanse, 28 mm. Habitat, Benita.
OTROEDA, Walk. .
65. 0. $emzagnz$ca, sp. nov. 8. An-
tennae testaceous. Front white, Palpi black margined with white below. Collar black
with a large white spot on the middle and a smaller one on either side at the base of the wings.
Tegulae black margined with white.
There are two white spots on the hind part of the thorax. The upper side of the abdo- men is orange-red with a heavy black dorsal line and similar lines on either side. The under side of the thorax is orange-red.
The
legs are whitish margined
outwardly with
black. The tarsi are black ringed with white and the anterior legs have a small oval white spot in the middle of the black margin of the tibiae. The under side of the abdomen is white with a ventral row of cuneiform black spots.
The primaries are bright orange-red,
inclining to fulvous near the costa. At the base, there is an irregular black spot. The costa at the base is narrowly edged with black, then more broadly edged with the
same color7 then again more narrowly edged, and just before the end of the cell, this border rapidly widens out into the broad apical black area, covering the outer half of the wing. The inner margin of this black area extends in an irregularly curved line around to a point upon the inner margin one fourth of the distance from the outer angle to the base. This black apical tract is interrupted by a marginal band of large white spots increas- ing in size toward the costa and preceded inwardly by a series of large white spots run- ning from the costa outwardly and terminat- ing above the fifth spot from the inner angle. On either side of the ends of the nervules. there is a narrow white line produced in- wardly, recalling the marking which is found upon the margin of the wing of Di~dema
di~a~c&a, Hew. The secondaries are broadly orange-red with a heavy black border inter- rupted by a band of large submarginal white spots and a marginal series of white mark- ings similar to those upon the primaries. The under side is marked as the upper side. Expanse, 90 mm.
This exceedingly beautiful species differs very largely from any other species in the genus in the style of its markings. It may be worthy of note that in the large series of specimens of Otroeda numbering nearly sixty in my possession, I find many intergrading



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forms, which lead me to the conclusion that 0. Aesj+eyia, Cram., 0. occia'edis, Walk., 0. cafya, Dru., and probably 0. Jomsi,
Sharpe, are forms of one variable species. LIPARIDAE.
EUPROCTIDION, gen. nov.
Antennae of the male strongly pectinated. Palpi porrect. First and second joints densely covered with short hair. The second joint swollen. The third joint very minute, naked at the extremity. The abdomen is one
quarter longer than the secondaries, tufted at the anal extremity, and with two tufts of hair upon the dorsal line behind the thorax. The primaries have the costa moderately con- vex, the outer margin strongly convex, the outer angle produced as in the genus Calpe, and the inner margin convex before the base. The secondaries are subovoid. The neura- tion is characteristic of liparid genera, the radial in both wings originating at the same point as the last median nervule. The disco- cellular nervelets form a sharp angle at the middle of the end of the cell.
66. E. Gahnica, sp. nov. 8. Antennae
with the culmen whitish, the setae dark
brown. The palpi, the head, and the upper side of the thorax are dark brown. The abdo- men is pale t.estaceous with
the apex tufted
with black and two small tufts of brown hair upon the dorsal line back of the thorax. The
lower side of the abdomen is yellowish.
There is a lateral brown line separating the dorsal area from the ventral area of the abdo- men on either side. The primaries have
the outer angle produced inwardly and the inner margin slightly convex before the base. The outer margin is regularly convex.
The
primaries are wood-brown, clouded in the middle with dark brown, and with a curved whitish band crossing the middle of the wing from the costa about the middle to the inner margin one third of the distance from the base. This band is enlarged outwardly be- yond the cell, where it has on its outer edge a light line defined inwardly with brown and terminating at the origin of the third median in a bright white spot. The limbal area has some whitish marks near the costa and near the inner margin. The outer mar- gin is defined by a series of black dots. The fringes are reddish. The secondaries are creamy-white. The fringes are concolorous. On the under side both wings are creamy- white with the costal area heavily clouded with dark brown.
Expanse, 24 mm.
LIPARIDAE.
EUPROCTIS, Hubn.
67. E. ReutZingeyi, sp. nov. 8. Palpi
dark brown. Front reddish. Antennae and
upper side of thorax gray. Abdomen gray. Legs concolorous, with the inner margin of the first pair marked with dark brown. Prim- aries pale wood-brown, crossed in the middle by a broad dark brown band angulated
beyond the end of the cell, and with sotne obscure brown subapical markings. The
secondaries pale wood-brown with the fringes lighter. The under side pale grayish-brown with the basal area of the primaries darker and the costa of the primaries narrowly edged with black near the base. The secondaries have a regularly curved submarginal pale brown line- Expanse, 17 mm. Habitat,
Benita.
HETERONYGMIA, gen. nov.
Antennae short, heavily pectinated in the male, moderately pectinated in the female. The abdomen very little longer than the
secondaries, tufted. Palpi porrect, appressed, the second joint very long and heavily
clothed with hair; the third joint minute and almost entirely concealed by the hairy vesti- ture of the second joint. The primaries are subtriangular with the costa in the male straight, or very slightly convex for two- thirds of the distance from the base, then curving rapidly at the apex. The apex iri



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the male is truncate, in the female slightly rounded. The secondaries are subovate with the outer margin evenly rounded and the
inner angle subacute.