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Fringe concolorous with wings. Kind wings concolorous with the anterior 

 pair, traversed by three equidistant, faint, dusky lines not reaching the costa. 

 Fringe and marginal dots as in fore wings. Beneath, both wings quite 

 uniformly mottled, though the hind wings are more coarsely so, with more* 

 white. Venules subochreous; costal region of both wings speckled with 

 ochreous. Fringe slightly checkered with dusky-brown. Legs concolorous 

 with the body. 



Length ofbody, t?, 0.50; of fore \\iiiL r , J, 0.65 ; expanse of wings, 1.45 



inches. 



Victoria, Vancouver Island. July (Gr. R. Crotch, Mus. Comp. Zool.). 



This species differs from P. neptata, to which it is closely allied, in the 

 head and cut of the wings, by its larger size, the sinuate outer line, and by 

 the three dusky lines on (he hind wings. The under side of both wings 

 resembles closely thai species. 



Piiasiane subminiata Packard. Plate 10, fig. G. 



Panagra subminiata Pack., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvi. 25, 187 I. 



1 9. — Differs from any other species known to me by the vermilion- 

 red on the costa and veins, especially beneath; the upper side of body and 

 wings being uniform ash, tinged faintly with vermilion. Front reddish-ash, 

 dull red on orbits ; the grayish hairs projecting between the palpi well marked. 

 Palpi stout and bushy, concolorous with the orbits, with a dark spot beneath; 

 vertex gray, like the thorax. Antennae reddish. Fore wings reddish-ash, 

 especially on the costa and veins. A linear, pale-brown, interrupted, curved 

 line, ending in a wider costal spot. Discal dot distinct, brown. Outer line 

 forming a broad sinuate shade ending just before the costa. Fringe concol- 

 orous with the rest of the wing, with a faint pale line just beyond the middle. 

 Hind wings a little paler than fore wings, speckled with brown scales: fringe 

 a little darker, as in fore wings. Beneath, both wings deeply tinged with 

 vermilion, especially costa of fore pair and entire hind wings; veins vermilion; 

 between them finely marbled with ash and brown scales. Feus tinned with 

 reddish. 



Length of body, — .' (abdomen wanting); of fore wing, 0.63 ; expanse oJ 

 wings, 1.30 inches. 



Goose Lake. Siskiyou County, Cal. (J. Flolleman ). 



This fine species, communicated by Mr. Holleman, to whom the Museum 



