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line "I dote is very distinct, and continued on to the hind wings. Certain 

 specimens bave a pale hue, with a slighl yellowish tinge, and were originally 

 described as a distinct species under the name pallidata. 1 append the 

 original description : 



3 <f and 2 9. — A pale cinereous species, with the outer edge of fore 

 wings straight, not excavated, the hind wings rounded, not angulated. Head 

 and palpi pale, concoloroiis with the body. Fore wings crossed by three rows 

 of venular dark dots, ending in three costal larger spots, the outer row angu- 

 lated just below the costa; the fourth spot beyond (usually present) wanting. 

 A faint diffuse brownish shade beyond the outer row of dots (often wanting). 

 Both wings speckled slightly with brown. Discal dots on both wings brown. 

 The usual marginal row of dots. Fringe concolorous with the wings. A 

 faint dusky diffuse band near the edge of hind wings. Beneath, the wings 

 are heavily speckled with pale brown; costa and veins oehreous ; discal dots 

 larger and distincter than above ; the outer line usually reproduced and double. 

 'A submarginal broad diffuse shade often present on hind wings. 



Length of body, f, 0.41, 9, 0.40; of fore wings, <? , 0.47, 9 , 0.50 inch. 



Texas, April 30 to May 23, September 15 (Belfrage). 



Four of these specimens are whitish, a single female much darker, and 

 with the submarginal band present on hind wings. 



Semiothisa DiisLocARiA, sp. nov. Plate 13, fig. 48. 



This species is very similar to S. californiata, but differs in its larger 

 size, the pectinated antennae, and in other respects. It is of the same color 

 above and beneath, being slate-gray, with the veins quite prominent. The 

 antenna' are well pectinated; three heavier dark-brown costal spots than in 

 S. californiata. The third spot is a little larger than the othe'rs, and nearly 

 touches a large, dark, conspicuous patch, broken up into four spots, situated 

 just beyond the origin of the median venules. A pale sinuous line runs 

 from this patch to the inner edge of the wing; traces of similar lines run 

 across the wing from the two inner costal spots. The hind wings differ from 

 those of S. californiata in having a straight, dark, well-marked extradiscal line. 

 Beneath, gray, mottled with whitish spots, much as in S. californiata, with 

 traces of a diffuse pale line common to both wings. 



Length of body, S, 60; id' fore wing, <?, 0.60; expanse of wings, 1.20 

 inches. 



Waco, Te.x., March It; (Belfrage; Mus. Peal). Acad. Sc. ; Coll. Meske). 



