26 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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Primaries with all the veins black marked, giving the insect a some- 

 what strigate appearance. No basal line. T. a. line single, broad, diffuse, 

 outwardly bent so as to form almost a right angle in the submedian 

 interspace. T. p. line single, blackish, shortly dentate on the veins, 

 starting from the costa over the reniform, bent outwardly far beyond the 

 cell, then almost parallel with and rather close to the outer margin, to the 

 inner margin. There is no s. t. line and there are no terminal dots ; but 

 the fringes are cut with triangular black dashes, the apices of which rest 

 on the middle of the interspaces. There is a vague series of oval, darker 

 shades in the interspaces beyond the t. p. line. A median blackish shade 

 starts obliquely from the middle of the costa, reaches the median vein at 

 the bottom of the reniform, and is then discontinued. The reniform is 

 large, irregular, of the ground colour, outlined by a diffuse blackish line. 

 Orbicular very long and narrow, decumbent, scarcely defined, reaching 

 from the t. a. line almost to the reniform. Claviform distinct, narrow, 

 extending almost to the middle of the wing, outHned in diffuse blackish. 



Secondaries, smoky over whitish, powdery, the apex and margin 

 paler. Fringes whitish. Veins dusky. A series of blackish, somewhat 

 undefined terminal spots in the interspaces. Discal spot of the under side 

 showing through the wing. 



Beneath, primaries smoky, powdery, shading to almost white toward 

 the outer margin, which is marked by a broken terminal line and small, 

 interspaceal black dots. The reniform appears here as a darker smoky 

 shading, and the course of the t. p. line is marked by a difi''use smoky 

 shade which disappears before it reaches the inner margin. Secondaries 

 white, shaded with smoky along the costal and inner margins. Veins 

 marked with blackish. A series of smoky terminal spots in the inter- 

 spaces. A large blackish discal lunule, from which a black line extends 

 to the base through the middle of the median cell. 



Expands 2 inches = 50 mm. 



Habitat : Cartwright, Manitoba. 



A single male specimen, donated by Mr. Heath to the U. S. National 

 Museum, where it is marked Type 4107 ! 



The species should be an easily recognizable one, not only from the 

 generic characters, but from the distinct bombyciform appearance and 

 the quite striking maculation of the under side. The nearest approach to 

 this occurs in Rancora, next to which the present genus and species may 

 be placed in the series, 



