OF WASHINGTON". 59

OF WASHINGTON". 59

to Dr.

LeConte

_asking his co-operation ⁱⁿ determining ^the species ⁱⁿ his collection, but

had

received no _reply.

He,

^there

fore,

worked

almost_entirely unaided, gave

names

tosuch _species as he could _identify,

and

labelled all others with his

own manu

script names.

Mr. Schwarz

stated that there

were

various things concerning Fitch's collection

and

Fitch's types,

which seem

to be

unknown

to

many

^{of our}

younger

entomologists.

He more

_especially referred to the insects sold

by

^{Dr. Fitch to the}

New York

State Agricultural Society and

which

are

now

ⁱⁿ the

New

State

Museum

at Albany. This collection probably does not contain

any

type specimens whatever.

What

^{is a} _type ^{in the} Fitch col lection can only be ascertained

by

consulting Fitch's note-books.

Six of these note-books, with the corresponding boxes ^{of the} original Fitch collection,

were bought many

years ago

by

^the

U.S. _Department

of Agriculture

and

are

now

^{in the}U. S.

Na

tional

Museum. The

record ofthe types, ^as given

by

Dr. Riley in Lintner's paper on ^the Fitch collection,* ^{is correct.}

The rema

^:ning note-books ^ofFitch

became

_separated

from

the Fitch collection,

and some

of

them

are

now

in the possession of the Boston _Societyof Natural _History.

The

others

seem

tobe lost.

The remnant

of the Fitch collection of insects

was

_{finally pur} chased

by

^the

Department

^of Agi'culture, but proved ^tobe in a very deplorable ^{state of} preservation.

The

_subject ofFitch's types,

and

_types ingeneral,

was

further discussed

by

^Messrs.

Ashmead, _Hopkins,

Titus,

Schwarz, Dyar and

Banks.

Dr.

Dyar ^handed

^thefollowing articles tothe Secretary^for publication^:

A NEW VARIETY OF THE NOCTUID EXYRA SEMICROCEA GUENEE.

{Exyra

semicrocea, variety

hubbardiana,

^n. var.)

By HARRISON ^{G. DYAR.}

The

usual

form

of semicrocea hasthe outer half of the fore

wings

solidlyblackish. In

hubbardiana

this color is largely

*NinthKept. N. Y. ^StateEnt. forthe year1892,pp. 411-413, 1893.

60 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

faded out

and

_{lost, leaving a} broad dark band, representing the inner edge ^{of the usual} patch

and

a subterminal band, ^{the latter} situated in a broad, light grayish ^field,

which

extends to the

margin and

^{touches the}

median band

_centrally.

Two

males,

De Funiak

_Springs, Florida (H.

G. Hubbard),

^bred

on Sarracenia

flava,

mixed

with

normal

semicrocea and with

E.

_ridingsii

^Riley.

Type.

No.

_7335,

U.

S. National

Museum.

A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF TORTRICID^.

By ^HARRISON

^G.

^DYAR.

Gymnandrosoma, ^new

genus.

Palpi rather long, obliquely ascending, second _joint only slightly widened by scales, third distinct, rounded;

$

^antennae compressed, mi nutely bristled, subserrate_; wings broad, costa arched,without fold in the $, ^veinsallseparate; vein2of the forewings from ^{near the}middle of thecell,3and₄approximate^{at base,}5more _distant,7tooutermargin, 8 to costa, separate; hind wings ^with 3and _{4 connate,5} remote, nearly parallel to4,6and_7closelyapproximated ^atbase. Thoraxwithadouble truncatetuftbehind; abdomen inthe_(^ with the basal segments ^{of dor-}

sum

bare ofscales, a pairof pencils of yellowish ^hairarisingfromthe _tip of thesecond segment. Inner margin^ofhindwings^excavated belowinto alarge pocketwhich covers the abdominal hair pencil

when

the wings are closed.

Allied to Pseudogalleria

and Ecdytolopha^ut

differing in the peculiar position of the ^d* scent _tuft,

which

ison the

abdo men

instead ofin a fold of the wing.

Gymnandrosoma punctidiscanum, new

species.

Wingsroughly scaled, strigose,dark gray from ^{blackishscales} heavily overlaid ona paleground, nearly solidly so over the basal two-thirds, sometimes over thewhole_{wing, but} usually leaving the terminal third largely light.

A

round, punctiform, whitish ^{discal dot, in} the males sit uated nearly^at theedge^{of the} dark basal area which is curvedinward below the cell.

A

more or less distinct, maculate,broken submarginal band,composed ^of dark patches with darker edges. Hind_wingsblackish brown.

Expanse

^c? 18-19

mm.,

9 21-25

mm.

Described from two* males

and

three females,

Washington, D.

_C.,

May

(L. O.

Howard), New

_Brighton, Pa.,

June

^2,

Aug.

25 (H. D. Merrick),

Newark, ^N.

J.,

June n _(W. D.

_Kearfott),

Long

^{Island, N. Y.}

U.

S. National

Museum,

type

No.

_7658.

[ISSUEDFEBRUARY13, 1904.]