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Fore wing : Shades of light and dark gray. There is an inner fascia 

 of shining-gray, beginning on costa as a qiiadrale white spot between inner 

 fourth and third, below costa it widens, and at dorsal margin it extends 

 from inner fourth to beyond middle ; in male si^ecimens the dark grayish- 

 brown costal fold partly hides the white spot. There is a similar quadrate 

 outwardly oblique white spot between costa and top of cell beyond middle, 

 below cell it continues as a shining-gray fascia, and overspreads the outer 

 third of wing. A smaller inwardly oblique white spot is on costa before 

 apex ; these two white costal spots enclose a darker shade of gray, and in 

 some specimens there is a paler shade connecting the two spots below the 

 dark spot. Cilia pale, shining gray. 



Hind wings gray, cilia whitish; underside whitish. Under side fore 

 wing smoky-gray, paler around margins, with costal spots repeated. 



Four specimens : Ottawa, Canada, July 3, C. H. Young ; New 

 Brighton, Pa., June 20, F. A. Merrick; Wisconsin ; San Francisco, Cal. 

 (Strecker collection). I have two other specimen';, one from Algonquin, 

 III., June 29, Dr. Nason, and one from So. Utah, July, Dr. Barnes, too 

 badly rubbed to include in the type material. 



The maculation does not differ from argyrospila, but there is a total 

 absence of red, brown or ochreous shades, these being entirely replaced by 

 grays. The variety seems to be as widely distributed as the common form. 



Phalonia Hollatidana, sp. nov. 



Expanse, 13 to 14 mm. • 



Head, palpi and thorax cream-gray, dusted with light brown ; antenna 

 gray ; abdomen dark gray, anal tuft dull ochreous ; legs cream white, 

 dusted with brown in front. 



Fore wing : Basal area cream-white, mottled in the middle with light 

 olivaceous and edged on costa with pale purplish-pink, in which are a 

 few brown dots ; its outer margin is nearly straight and very oblique, 

 extending from inner fourth of dorsum to beyond inner third of costa. 

 Beyond it is a black fascia, narrowest on costa, oveilaid in middle with 

 purplibh-brown, and on lower end with pinkish and cream-white scales ; 

 its outer edge is concave, and encloses a large round spot filling the outer 

 third of wing, edged with shining-purple and interior dull reddish-purple, 

 shaded with black outwardly and above. The outer half of costa is purple, 

 interrupted by a black spot before apex, which sends a narrow black 

 fascia into the round sjwt. There is a black patch in apical cilia, and five 

 others in the termen cilia ; between these black spots the cilia is ochreous- 

 pink, and is preceded by a fine black line, before which is a whitish line. 



