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times darker than ground color. Outer margin with a fine dark line 

 and minute dashes on the veins. Fringes concolorous with a pale basal 

 line. Secondaries pale powdery brownish gray, darkest at outer mar- 

 gin; fringes slightly paler. 



Under surface : primaries pale gray, shining, powdered with dark 

 tipped scales on costal and apical areas. Secondaries much paler, sjmi- 

 larly powdered on costal area. Wing expanse 26 to 32 mm. 



Hnlotype $ , Sept., and allotype, Palmerlee, Arizona. One 

 paratype $ and two paratypes 9 , same locality. One paratype 

 $ and one paratype 9, Chiricahua Mts., Cochise County, 

 Arizona, Sept. and Aug., all in coll. Barnes, with other speci- 

 mens from the same localities. 



We place fusatla Grt. between minor Dyar and dcntata. 

 Dyar. Far/a is related to the last named and to conspicua 

 Dyar, which is a good species, and may he placed between the 

 two. From the former it differs in the more even and more 

 constantly gemmate t. p. line and from the latter in its relatively 

 short palpi. In conspicua the palpi exceed the front by well 

 over the length of the head. 



SUBFAMILY LITHOSTINAE. 



A recent examination of the type of Ctenucha modnlata Hy. 

 Edw. by Dr. Barnes disclosed the fact that our series under 

 this name was incorrectly placed. The four specimens which 

 we regarded as inodulata appear to belong to an undescribed 

 species. ' In Hampson's key to the genera of this subfamily 

 (Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. II, 81 ct scq.} the insect runs to the 

 genus Lysccia Wlk. or the second section of Pastcosia I lamps., 

 but we feel that this entirely misrepresents its relations. From 

 Gnafnptonychia Hamps. it differs only in the apparent anasto- 

 mosis of Sc and R\ of the primaries toward the greatly weak- 

 ened apex of Sc, and in the stalking of JU2 and .1/3 of the 

 primaries. The species appears to be closely related to flai'i- 

 collis Druce, orthotype of Gnamptonychia, so we associate it 

 for the present with that species. According to our idea of 

 genera, some phylogenetic differences may be present within 

 the unit, as well as within the family. Nature is relative ; 

 certainlv Man cannot make her absolute. 



