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I could hardly have persuaded myself that the undersized luteous 

 red-brown forms really belonged here. The maculation may 

 become entirely lost, and only the darkening along the veins will 

 remain. 



Alameda is a dull brown species in both sexes ; the veins 

 darker, the row of outer spots inconspicuous and only a vague 

 tracing of the ordinary spots. As a whole, both sexes are a little 

 more smoky than in the male subflava; but they are of the same 

 general type, and the species are related. 



Lceta is distinctly red in tint, the tendency being to yellowish 

 in the interspaces and to purplish brown on the veins. There is 

 no trace of an outer line and the reniform is marked only as a 

 vague darker shading at the end of the cell. The sexes are simi 

 lar in appearance. 



Altogether, as the species are arranged now, they are easily 

 separable and should be recognized without much trouble. 



NONAGRIA OBLONGA Grote. 



Nonagria oblongs Grote, Papilio, n, p. 95, 1882. 



Nonagria permagna Grote, Papilio, in, p. 73, 1883. 



Nonagria subcarnea Kellicott, Can. Ent., xv, p. 175, 1883. 



Nonagria subcarnea Kellicott, Bull. Bkln. Ent. Soc., vir, p. 86, 1884. 



Nonagria subcarnea Kellicott, Can. Ent., xvi, p. 170, 1884. 



Nonagria subcarnea Kellicott, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., v, p. 40, 1885. 

 Ground color a somewhat reddish gray or luteous, varying in depth and 

 suggesting the flesh tint. Head and thorax immaculate. Abdomen only 

 a little paler, also without maculation. Primaries with fine black powder- 

 ings, which are fewer in the cell and submedian interspace, lightening this 

 area, and which tend to mass along the median vein. T. a. line usually 

 indicated by a blackish dot on the costa and another in the cell. T. p. line 

 evenly outcurved over the cell, and continued in an even sweep about par 

 allel with the outer margin. It may be a strongly dentate, nearly contin 

 uous single line, a series of interspaceal followed by a series of venular 

 dots, or it may be a series of venular dots only, the dots representing 

 respectively the inner and outer teeth of the complete line. There is a 

 series of interspaceal black terminal dots. The orbicular is a blackish 

 dot surrounded by a variably evident reddish shade, or by a circular area 

 free from black powderings. Reniform a blackish dot at the termination 

 of the median vein, supplemented by one above it nearer to the centre of 

 the eel), and surrounded by a somewhat paler shading. Secondaries a 

 little paler, sometimes with a more reddish flush, with an irregular, smoky, 

 inconspicuous median shade line, and with a series of terminal dots or 

 lunules. Beneath paler, primaries with the disc blackish outwardly, and 

 with a blackish discal spot; secondaries more powdery, with a blackish 

 discal spot and a somewhat irregular, diffuse, extra median band. 

 Expanse. Male, 1.40-1.68 inches = 35-42 mm. 



Female, 1.60-2.00 inches = 40-50 mm. 



