THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. G5 



Hind wing rather even dark fuscous, with very faint trace of discal bar. 

 Fringe with pale line at base, followed by dusky shade, whitish terminally. 



Beneath a well marked mesial band on both wings. Fore wings 

 dusky centrally, yellowish-brown outwardly, along costa and inner margin. 

 Head and collar concolorous with fore wing. Quadrate tuft at base of 

 abdomen, with whitish scales at tip. Abdomen fuscous, terminal segment 

 with long pale yellowish-white hair, separated by sharp line from the 

 fuscous tint of remainder. 



Male similar to female except the antennae, which are broadly 

 pectinated, while simple in the female, and the terminal abdominal 

 tufting, which is here yellowish-brown instead of white. 



Type, S and $ , Santa Catalina Mts., Ariz., August. 



Xanthia cordova, n. sp. — Expanse, 25 mm. 



Resembles ^/^a/^^/;-«, Druce Biol. Centr. Amer., Plate 44, fig. 12. 

 Fore wing yellow, with purplish-brown markings. T. a. line somewhat 

 outwardly oblique, dentate. T. p. line scalloped, moderately exserted over 

 cell, then with a gentle inward curve to inner margin. A row of intra- 

 venular patches of purplish-brown scales represent the s. t. line. Broad 

 purplish shade between reniform and t. p. line, another between ordinary 

 spots, ths two joining below reniform into a single band, which is cut 

 squarely off before reaching inner margin. Purplish patch in cell to inner 

 side of orbicular. None of these shades quite reach costa. Three or 

 four purplish spots on costa before apex. Fringe concolorous, with 

 slightly darker line at base. Hind wings semi-translucent, pale-yellowish, 

 slightly darker outwardly. Fringe concolorous, with slightly darker line 

 at base. Head and thorax somewhat more brownish than fore wings. 

 Abdomen somewhat paler shade of the same colour. 



Beneath, fore wings even pale-yellowish. The ordinary spots and 

 surrounding darker area of upper surface transmitted through wing. 

 Mesial band from costa to middle of wing yellowish-brown, angled below 

 costa, some dark scales along costal edge, and shade of same from apex to 

 angle of mesial band. Fringe concolorous with darker line at base, 

 slightly checkered by some orange hairs between the veins. Hind wing 

 with yellowish-brown mesial band from costa to middle of wing. A slight 

 scattering of brownish scales along costa. Fringe concolorous with darker 

 line at base. 



Types Chiricahua Mts., Ariz. 



