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gray, but in some specimens has also a distinct bluish tinge. The basal 

 line is geminate, the defining lines not well marked; the center gray until 

 the submedian space is reached, when it becomes yellow and makes a 

 sudden turn to the base, forming thus an obvious loop. The t. a. line is 

 also geminate, the included space of the ground color or a little paler, the 

 preceding line only a little dusky and narrow; the following line black and 

 evident. As a whole the line is outcurved, forming three evident lunula- 

 tions. The t. p. line is marked chiefly by the difference in color between 

 the median and s. t. spaces, but there is also a more or less obvious outer 

 shade line, leaving a vague, included pale space. The line is even, as a 

 whole moderately bent over the cell, and distinctly incurved below. The 

 s. t. line is yellow, prominent, forming a feebly marked W on veins 3 and 

 4. It is preceded by a brown shade and by more or less obvious black 

 sagittate marks before the W. The shade merges into the lilac suffusion 

 of the wing. There is a series of black terminal lunules. The dark 

 fringes are cut with pale on the veins. The claviform is a little paler than 

 the ground color, variable in size, blackish and pale ringed, and with a 

 darker or even black shade extending across the median space from it. 

 The ordinary spots are distinct, of moderate size, of the pale ground 

 color, internally ringed with pale or bluish, and with a narrow outer de- 

 fining ring of black scales. The orbicular is oval and oblique. The 

 reniform oblong and only a little drawn in outwardly; the secondaries are 

 smoky, a little paler toward the base and with a more or less obvious 

 discal lunule. Beneath the wings are purplish; the primaries smoky on 

 the disc, both with an outer dark line and an evident discal spot. Ex- 

 pands 32-35 mm.; 1.28-1.42 inches. 

 Hab. Calgary, in May. 



I have a male and female specimen from Mr. Dod, who writes 

 concerning this species, " not rare last May." One specimen is 

 marked "light." I have also a specimen which I believe to be 

 of this species taken by Mr. Bruce in Garfield County, Colorado, 

 at an' elevation of 6000 feet and bearing his number, 739. It is, 

 however, a somewhat faded and partially imperfect specimen, and 

 I would scarcely like to say positively that it is the same species. 

 Of the specimens sent by Mr. Dod, the female, the largest of all 

 the specimens, is very bright and contrastingly colored. The 

 male, which was sent in a paper unset, is defective, and the col- 

 oring is not nearly so contrasting. There seems to be a little 

 difference in the angulation of the s. t. line and the consequent 

 distinctness of the "W," but no more, so I think, 'than is found 

 in cristifera, to which this species is allied in wing form and a 

 little in the general type of maculation. 



Mamestra larissa n. sp. PI. xv, fig. n. The ground color is ashen gray 

 with a tendency to a darker suffusion. The head and collar inferiorly, 



