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lilack; collar tipped with light ochreous. Fore wings hright reddish 

 orange, with live nearly equidistant metallic hlvte costal spots, broadF 

 edged with deep black basally, and with three similar blue metalli-- 

 dorsal spots, also edged with black basally opposite the intervals 

 between the first four costal spots. Extreme base of costa and a 

 narrow edge of dorsum to the first dorsal spot black; a narrow ediv 

 around apex from the last costal to the last dorsal spot black. Cilia 

 dark gray. The first and second costal spots do not touch the edge. 

 Hind wings purplish black with ochreous white cilia contrasting mark- 

 edly with the dark wing. Entire underside of the body and the legs 

 stror.jjly metallic coppery green. 

 Alar expanse, IS mm. 



Habitat Cimarron, Xe\v Mexico. September. C. 

 Ainslie, coll. 



Type No. 12690, U. S. National Museum. 



A remarkably fine species, much larger than any of the 

 described American species of the genus, nearest to c.vtranccila 

 \Yalsingham, but with additional metallic costal spots, without 

 the white costal and dorsal spots and at once distinguished by 

 the light color of the cilia of the hind wings. 



The described American species of this genus may be sep- 

 arated by the following synoptic table : 



NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF HKLIODI \i s. 



1. Fore wings with snow-white costal spot before cilia 



I'.vti'iinccllii \\ Ism. 



Fore wings without any white markings 2. 



Fore wings \\itli a complete transverse fascia. .. iiictnllicclln Busck. 

 Fore wings without fascia 3. 



3. ( iround-color of fore wings gray with a single costal orange 



spot unipunctella \Vlsm. 



Ground-color red or orange 4 . 



4. Basal half of costal edge black sc.r^itnctclln \Vls:n. 



Basal half of o >sta not black 5. 



5. Fore wings with six metallic costal spots albaciliclla Busck. 



Fore wings with less than six costal spots 6. 



6. Fore wings with two dorsal metallic spots bclla Chambers. 



F< re wings with one dorsal metallic spot t;-ipitnciclht \YIs.i,. 



Bucculatrix sporoholella, new species. 



lace, pecten, and lower part ot tlie tntt white: upper part of tuft 

 dark gray with a few white hairs. Thorax white mottled with fuscon- 

 The white ground-color of the fore wing nearly obliterated by overlaid 

 s fuscous scaling and with black markings; at basal third i- a 



