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is a tendency to add blackish scales until, in one specimen, we have a 

 fragmentary, narrow preceding shade. The s. t. line is pale, obvious in 

 all the specimens, defined by a perceptibly darker s. t. shading. The 

 terminal space is very even in color, sometimes a little paler than the rest 

 of the wing, and there is a hardly perceptible series of terminal lunules. 

 A vague, dusky, median shade is traceable in some specimens. The or- 

 dinary spots are all marked by distinct, narrow, yellowish lines, and these 

 form the most prominent feature in the wing; the interior of the spots is 

 of the ground color, leaving the pale outlines very distinct. The clavi- 

 form is of good size and extends fully half way across the median space. 

 The orbicular and reniform are both of good size, of characteristic form, 

 and are connected inferiorly, the lines defining the two spots being con- 

 tinuous, so that we have a true fusion of the spots and not an accidental 

 joining. The secondaries are dull, smoky brown in both sexes, but a 

 little paler toward the base. As usual the fringes are pale, with a dusky 

 interline. The underside is smoky, the hind wings paler and more pow- 

 dered, and on both wings a more or less obvious outer line is apparent. 

 Expands 30-37 mm.; 1.20-1.50 inches. 



Hab. Calgary, June to August. 



Mr. Dod sends me six specimens, evenly distributed as to sex 

 under the number 59, and states that the specimens were " com- 

 mon at Treacle in '94." 



The species is a very well 'marked one and cannot easily be 

 mistaken. I omitted to say, in the description, that the space 

 between the ordinary spots above the bend of the junction is 

 black, and this feature, with the narrow pale rings defining the 

 confluent spots gives the insect a characteristic appearance. Its 

 nearest ally we find in bicarnea, than which this species is some- 

 what narrower winged, but of much the same ground color and 

 with approximately the same general pattern of marking. 



Carneades recticincta n. sp. PI. xv, fig. /. Ground color a very pale 

 straw-yellow, with a dash of luteous. Head, thorax and abdomen, im- 

 maculate. Primaries with all the ordinary lines indistinct, barely trace- 

 able as slightly paler shadings; all the lines indicated on the costa by 

 single, black dots. The location of the s. t. line is feebly marked by a 

 few blackish scales. The claviform is not traceable. The orbicular is 

 faintly marked by a slightly paler ring. The reniform is obscured by a 

 rather broad, blackish band, which crosses the wing through the outer 

 portion of the median space. This band has an irregular inner margin 

 which is, however, well defined; outwardly it is rather diffuse, and limited 

 principally by the location of the t. p. line. Secondaries white, or nearly 

 so, a little dusky outwardly, and with a fairly distinct, discal lunule. On 

 the underside the secondaries are silky with a very faint yellowish tinge. 

 The primaries are also whitish, but the disc is smoky, or at least gray in 

 shade. Expands 34 mm.; 1.36 inches. 



