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in another the dark marks are intensified and the whole outer upper half 

 of wing is clouded with dark scales ; the outer end of the outer line 

 divides into three distinct lines or spurs. 



I have but one $ , which differs considerably from the o . All of the 

 head, jialpi and thorax colouring is much darker. The fore wing is a 

 dull brown, overlaid on lower half below cell with whitish-gray scales, a 

 line of these same scales are above and join ihe internal black line, and 

 above this is a parallel line of gray-white scales, all the veins beyond the 

 cell are overlaid with the same, and the intervening spaces rather closely 

 .•■p'.xkled with them. The outer black line with its spurs is obsolete, but 

 three or four black dots remain on outer half of costa, and a cluster of 

 black dots on the ocellic space, of which four are in a vertical row along 

 termen and three or four before them. 



Seven ^ and one 9 specimens. West Manitoba, July, Hanham ; 

 Illinois, Prof Fernald ; Iowa, U. S. Nat. Mus. Ac. Cat No. 383. 



Co-types in U. S. Nat. Mus., Prof Fernald's and my collections. 



Et(cosma madderana, sp. nov. — Expanse, 13 to 14 mm. Fore wing 

 grayish-white. A large rounded brown-madder spot on outer end of 

 wing, interior of wing washed with fainter shades of this same colour, 

 especially over the basal area, and an oblique semi-fascia from costa 

 beyond middle. 



Head rough, rose-madder, palpi same, but a shade darker above and 

 outwardly, tuft compressed, flattened, ovate ; outer joint not hidden, brown. 

 Antennae cinereous, annulated with a darker shade. Thorax smooth, light 

 brown-madder, posteriorly and tips of patagia paler. Abdomen pale 

 fuscous, anal tuft cinereous. Legs steely-fuscous, tibise and tarsi streaked 

 and spotted with brown-madder. 



Fore v^ing grayish-white, this ground colour is only distinct before 

 the ovate terminal spot and on dorsal margin before ocellic space, on the 

 latter space it is overlaid with darker scales. Basal area, which extends 

 to inner third at middle and inner fourth on costal and dorsal margins, is 

 a light pink-madder. From the costa just at and beyond middle, an 

 oblique flattened ovate spot on fascia of brown-madder crosses wing 

 towards anal angle, but terminates in a pointed end at vein iii. Between 

 this spot and basal area the colour is a rosy-madder over the gray-white 

 ground. A large, ovate brown-madder spot, its outer margin involving 

 the termen from anal angle to apex, its inner margin curving easily inward 

 from angle to end of cell, then outward to costa before apex; veins iv to 

 viii where they cross this patch are overlaid with fuscous-brown, and where 



