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lanules. Fringes with a pale line at base and with a brown interline. 

 All the veins are narrowly black and edged on each side with white 

 scales, which gives the wing a rayed appearance. Claviform long, ex- 

 tending to the middle of the median space, very heavily outlined in black, 

 so as to form the most prominent feature of the wing. Orbicular small, 

 ovate, of the ground colour, black margined. Reniform small, of the 

 ground colour or a little paler, partly outlined in black. Secondaries 

 almost evenly smoky gray, with a vague brown discal lunule and 

 terminal line. Beneath, primaries smoky gray, with a vague discal spot 

 and a series of distinct black terminal lunules. Secondaries powdery 

 white, with a large blackish discal blotch and a series of distinct black 

 terminal lunules. 



Expands i. 60-1. 68 inches = 40 to 42 mm. 



Habitat. — Brandon, Manitoba, August 27, Sept. i, 1898. 



Two male specimens, No. 441, from Mr. Hanham, who says there is 

 a third in Mr, Boger's collection. The new species is near vetierabiiis, 

 but the pectinations of the antennae are not so long, and, while the body 

 is fully as heavy, the primaries are proportionately longer. The median 

 lines are unusually distinct as compared with its allies, while the pale 

 edging on the median and vein 2 does not tend to form a pale or dis- 

 coloured streak or band, as in the other species. The antennas extend to 

 the inception of the t. p. line on the primaries, are well pectinated (male), 

 the branches very densely ciliated. 



Philometra Hanhanii, n. sp. 



Ground colour dark sooty brown, the secondaries lighter in tint. 

 Head and thorax without markings, the abdomen deep mouse gray, also 

 immaculate. Primaries with all the ordinary lines present, but very faint 

 and not at all contrasting. Basal line single, black, very close to the 

 base of the wing and usually marked only by a black dot on the median vein. 

 T. a. line single, blackish, with two wide and one small outcurve, also 

 a little outcurved as a whole. T. p. line blackish, single, narrow, irreg- 

 ular, outcurved over the cell and a little incured in the s. m. interspace. 

 S. t. line pale, preceded by a black shading, which relieves it, with three 

 outcurves which, on the inward bends, are marked by obtuse angles 

 instead of curves. Orbicular wanting. Reniform kidney-shaped, mod- 

 erate in size and intensely black, making it the most obvious ornamental 

 character. A vague median shade is visible in some specimens. Second- 

 aries paler basally, with a yellowish tinge. Outwardly there is a diffuse, 



