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inner margin. T. p. line geminate, very even, well out-curved over the 

 cell, but only a little indrawn below ; inner portion blackish, narrow, 

 interrupted ; the outer punctiform and sometimes obsolete. S. t. line 

 paler, broken, very vague, with a W reaching the outer margin, preceded 

 by a series of blackish spots or shadings, which may be in part or alto- 

 gether obsolete. A series of smoky terminal lunules. Ordinary spots 

 concolorous. Claviform well defined by a narrow black line, extending 

 across the median space to the t. p. line, or connected with it by a black 

 shade. Orbicular moderate or large, varying somewhat in form, with a 

 smoky, often incomplete, outline. Reniform large, upright, well defined 

 at the sides only. Secondaries evenly mouse gray, the fringes paler. 

 Beneath smoky, powdery, with a common outer line and discal spots on 

 all wings. 



Expands i. 40-1. 60 inches = 35-40 mm. 



Habitat : Volga, South Dakota (Truman). 



This is the species which I called idonea, Grt., in my revision of the 

 species oi XylopJiasia, Proc. U. S. N. M., XIII., 438, 1890, and credited 

 from Mr. Grote's original description to Texas, Arizona, and Wisconsin. 

 Tne species resembles cariosa in general type of maculation, but is 

 entirely even in ground colour, and, as I pointed out, unquestionably 

 good. I found when studying the genus originally that there were three 

 allied forms generally mixed under cariosa. I separated the most 

 intensely marked species, resembling verbascoides as much as it did 

 cariosa, under the name nigrior ; from specimens named by Mr. Grote I 

 identified the form here described as idonea. Later I had an opportunity 

 of comparing the Guenee and Grote types directly in the British 

 Museum, and found, to my surprise, that both names were applied to 

 one species. Comparing the two original descriptions, it will be seen 

 that Guene'e had a specimen distinctly shaded with reddish, while Mr. 

 Grote had one in which this was replaced by a dirty luteous gray. 



The present name is based on four males in rather bad shape, 

 received from Mr. P. C. Truman ; but I have seen others sufticient to 

 indicate that there is very little variation. 

 Hadena (Luperina) virgunciila, n. sp. 



Ground colour dull reddish gray. Thoracic vestiture interspersed 

 with gray hairs, giving it a hoary appearance ; no markings. Primaries 

 without contrasts, median space a little darker above the middle, 

 terminal space evenly dusky, s. t. space dusky on the costa. Basal line 



