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most lost before the middle of the wing, then better marked again 

 through outer third, almost to the outer margin. Orbicular lost; 

 reniform a very narrow dusky crescent at end of cell. T. a. line lost. 

 T. p. line traceable across the wing as a rather broad though vague 

 whitish sinuate line. Secondaries white. Beneath almost snow white, 

 with small discal spots, primaries with a trace of an extra-median 

 line. 

 Expands 42 mm. = 1.70 inches. 



Habitat Provo, Utah, VII, 24. 



A single male, in good condition, from Mr. Thomas Spald- 

 ing. The species is an ally of metro,, with similar habitus, 

 vestiture and wing-form, but much paler and whiter through- 

 out, with the narrow, crescent-like reniform and pale s. t. 

 line. The simplicity of the maculation should render it easily 

 recognizable. 



Acronycta amicora n. sp. 



Head, thorax, abdomen and primaries ashen gray, with a faint 

 yellowish tinge. Palpi black at sides, with a narrow black line ex- 

 tending to the base of the primaries. All transverse maculation of 

 primaries lost; all the veins slightly darker and feebly relieved. A 

 narrow black line extends from base to outer margin through sub- 

 median space, traceable only as a line of black scales at the middle of 

 its course. Another short black streak is in the interspace beyond the 

 cell, and the fringes are rather distinctly cut with black on the Inter- 

 spaces. Orbicular elongate, decumbent, pointed anteriorly, obscurely 

 outlined by black scales. Reniform a dusky lunule at end of cell. 

 Secondaries soiled whitish, with a yellowish suffusion. Beneath 

 whitish with a yellowish tinge, somewhat powdery, all wings with 

 a good sized, round, somewhat diffuse discal spot, but without extra- 

 median line. 



Expands 46 mm. : : 1.85 inches. 



Habitat Senator, Arizona. 



One female, an old specimen and perhaps a little discolored. 

 It is obviously related to metra and turpis, but differs from 

 both by the black streak opposite cell and by the narrow, de- 

 cumbent orbicular. , , 



There is nothing on the specimen to indicate the source 

 from which I originally received it. 



