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by two slightly undulating broad white parallel lines, the outer extradiscal nearer the basal 

 line than the outer edge of the wing and ends on the costa farther from the apex. Discal spot 

 linear, faint. Extreme edge of wing paler than within. Hind wings with no lines or other 

 markings, uniformly soft delicate lake, of the same hue as the middle of the fore wing. 



Underside as above, a little deeper in hue; no discal spot or lines present; costal edge 

 ocher. Legs of the same color as the front of the head. Abdomen more red above than 

 beneath, and with lake-colored hairs along the middle; beneath being lake, with gray patches 

 on the sides of the abdomen. 



Expanse of the fore wings, 9 63 mm 



Length of a fore wing, 9 30 mm. 



Breadth of a fore wing, 9 15 mm. 



Length of hind wing, 9 23 mm. 



Breadth of hind wing, 9 15 mm. 

 This is very different from the other species known to me, and is one of the most beautiful 

 of moths. I do not think it can be the 9 of E. norba. [Related to E. marittia Dyar, but with 

 lighter, brighter colors.] 



Geographical distribution. — Tacubaya, Mexico (O. T. Barrett). 



PSEUDOHAZIS Grote and Robinson. 



[Pseudohazis Grote and Robinson, Ann. Lye. New York, VIII (1866), p. 377.] 



[synopsis of species and varieties. 



Discal mark of hind wing elongate, more or less comma-shaped; wings white or pale yellow hera (Harris). 



Hind wing with marginal dashes hera hera (Harris). 



Hind wing without marginal dashes hera marcata Neum. 



Discal mark of hind wing rounded or subquadrate, not elongate. 



Fore wings washed with purple, hind wings dark ocher shastaensis Behrens. 



Fore wings with moderate markings shastaensis normalis Dyar. 



Fore wings heavily suffused with black, the pale colors nearly obliterated shastaensis shasta'ensis Behrens. 



Fore wings with the black marks obliterated, or faintly indicated" in grayish shastaensis denuaata (Neum.). 



Fore wings pale yellow (or margin more or less dark ocher); hind wings dark ocher eglanterina (Bdv.). 



Both wings pale ocherous yellow, with the usual markings eglanterina unijornvis Cockerell. 



H. G. Dyar and T. D. A. Cockerell.] 



[Great differences of opinion have been prevalent concerning the forms and species of 

 Pseudohazis. In the quotation from Neumoegen given below shastaensis with the purple 

 coloring is treated as eglanterina, while Dr. McDunnough considers shastaensis and eglanterina 

 to be one species, and so treats them in the description he has kindly furnished. Dr. Dyar had 

 regarded nuttalli Strecker as a variety of eglanterina, but on rereading the description concludes 

 that it is a simple synonym. He also finds pica Walker to be a simple synonym of hera. In 

 The Moth Book, Dr. Holland has figured P. eglanterina as pica and P. shastaensis normalis as 

 nuttalli. His figure of hera (PI. IX) is correct.] 



[The genus Pseudohazis has only two typical representations so far known, one being 

 eglanterina, with the purple coloring, and the other the white hera, from Utah's salt regions. Hera 

 has to be considered a distinct species, for, aside from its white color, its primaries are falcated, 

 while those of eglanterina are broad and blunt. All the rest are variations of eglanterina, pica 

 Walker being especially recognized by its heavy black markings and black basal areas. — B. 

 Neumoegen, Canad. Entom., XXIII (1891), p. 145.] 



[Boisduval says of eglanterina, "alae anticse albido-carnese," which applies to the form 

 described as arizonensis by Strecker. Behrens's shastaensis was described from very black 

 examples of the purple-winged form, so this name will obtain. The form is constant, and has 

 as good right to specific recognition as any species in the genus. — H. G. Dyar, Psyche, May, 

 1894, p. 91.] 



[Habits. — The moths appear to be diurnal in their habits, and may be found in vast num- 

 bers in the morning hours on bright days in their favorite haunts in the region of the Rocky 



