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13. A quadrate black patch on primaries between the ordinary spots. 



quadrata. 



No marking between the ordinary spots. 



An orange shading at base below the black dash; secondaries white 



in the male, soiled with gray in female . . falcula. 



No orange shadings at base ; secondaries white in both sexes, a 



little soiled outwardly in female . . parallels 



14. Bluish gray; the dark shading along inner margin is diffuse, not de- 



fined, and does not extend upward on the t. a. line. 



mansueta n. sp. 



Bluish white, the dark shading along inner margin is black, sharply 

 defined, and extends upward so as to form a tooth on the t. a. 

 line . . . . fimeralis. 



15. A dark longitudinal shade extends through the middle of the prima- 



ries ...... 1 6. 



Primaries without such a dusky central shade . . . .17. 



16. Smaller, smoky gray, a little suffused with luteous in the cell; not 



mottled or marbled ....... connecta. 



Larger, ashen gray, a transverse as well as longitudinal dark shade 

 giving the primaries a marbled or mottled appearance. 



superans. 



17. Very dark, powdery ash-gray; none of the dashes well marked; all 



the lines geminate, but obscure ; secondaries smoky yellow, 

 darker in the female ...... brumosa. 



Paler ash-gray; at least the basal dash well marked. 

 The dashes neatly defined; that opposite anal angle not diffuse. 



spinigera.t 



The dashes diffuse; that opposite anal angle thick and not sharply 

 defined . . . pruni.i 



Group Persuasa. 

 Almost entirely black ; the orbicular white, round, contrasting, with a 



central clot; all other maculation obscured . aiflicta. 



Very dark ash-gray, mottled with black; all the maculation traceable, but 



except the orbicular, not contrasting . persuasa. 



Dark ashy gray, more evenly washed with smoky ; the black shadings 



tending to become strigate . . . liturata n. sp. 



Ground color bluish white; all the markings black, so that the primaries 



appear marbled . . . marmorata n. sp. 



Group Hamamelis. 



Dagger mark opposite anal angle usually distinct, always traceable. 

 Secondaries of male white; ground color of primaries even, dark blue- 

 gray, ordinary spots shaded with reddish ; vestiture scarcely 

 roughened, even of the ornamentation . . albarufa. 



Secondaries smoky in both sexes. 



* = impUta Wlk. ; = subochrea. f = harveyana Grt. J = clarescens Grt. 



