Ameria Texana, nov. sp.

Expanse .80 inch. Of the size of shape of A. Unicolor; the hind wings more rounded at anal angle, in that respect more like Euphanessa Mendica; body slender, antennæ pectinate; palpi slender, short, projecting beyond the front less that in A. Unicolor. Color uniform gray drab, the wings diaphanous, antennæ concolorus except the inside of pectinations at base where they are black, sides of head, back of eyes and a little at base of fore wings and abdoment slightly ochraceous.

Since the food plant and early stages of Graptaj-Album appear to be unknown, perhaps the following notes (incompletee as they are owing to my ignorance of the species larvæ I was rearing) may still be of some value of shed a little light on the early stages of this fine butterfly.

The following paper is presented in order to get into shape the notes made by me at odd times for the five years last past. It includes, in the first place, all the references that I found to the species during that time, and such notes of synonymic interest as I have culled from teh publications examined. It has also been my practice, as specimens came into my hands, to use as were unfit for the cabinet, for purposes of study, and I have thus accumulated a great many notes, which I see no opportunity of using for some time to come, inasmuch as my studies on the Noctuidœ will probably fill very completely all the time I have for systematic work.

Otiocerus Wolfii, Kirby. A pale specimen of this frail little form was beaten by me from a beech tree September 3, 1888, at Lancaster, N. Y., and Mr. Uhler has kindly sent me a fully colored individual, presumably from Md., taken on the 6th of August. The antennæ in this species are very short, with a single appendage.