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abdomen above soiled-while and gray, darker at tip. All wings above 

 a silky even fuscous gray, with a faintly roseate flush, the primaries near 

 base, narrowly beneath costa, and apically, sprinkled with black atoms. 

 These form on costa near base a square patch, within which is a smaller 

 white patch, neither very definite in outline. Costa white scaled, chang- 

 ing to buff" toward apex. No markings above. Fringes pink, cut with a 

 fine pencil of black hairs opposite veins. No discal dots. 



Beneath, the ground colour as above. Along costa, very narrow at 

 base, and widening as it approaches apex, running down very narrowly 

 along outer margin a band of rosy, white and black scales extends. The 

 narrow while extradiscal line, about one fifih from apex, crosses costa in 

 a straight line to vein seven, then becoming fainter, as it curves a little 

 outward, is lost centrally. .X narrow bright chestnut band borders this 

 line outside from costal edge to vein seven, ending in black at vein six. 

 Discal spots indicated faintly as a dusky bar, nearer base than usual. 

 Fringes pink, darkened by black atoms. Secondaries, from base to extra- 

 discal line, are covered with pinkish, white and black scales, the latter 

 massed into an irregular blotch, which nearly fills the outer half of cell, 

 darkest costally, and beneath washed with chestnut. The extradiscal, a 

 narrow white line is more evident near inner margin and at costa, where, 

 starting two-thirds out, it runs outward toward centre of outer margin to 

 vein five, then with a rounded angle backward to vein two, thence in a 

 straight line across to inner margin, a little within anal angle. A shading 

 of black atoms running outward on veins borders this line externally from 

 costa to vein six, where it is heaviest, fades out and reappears at vein 

 three, broadening a little as it runs to inner margin. A cluster of black 

 scales at middle of inner margin, and another at inner border of extra- 

 discal line. Subterminal space and fringes evenly dusted with white, 

 black and chestnut red scales, the latter predominating, giving it a ruddy 

 appearance. Body, legs and abdomen beneath covered with similar scales, 

 the latter somewhat darkened. 



'lype. — One ^ from San Diego, Calif., Ill, 20, 1910, which I owe 

 to the kindness of Mr. L. E. Recksecker, whose name I have given it. 

 There is a (J in rather poor condition in the Museum of the Brooklyn 

 Institute, from Monterey Co., Calif., which I have made a co-type. 



'I'his species is near to de/icaium dross., but is larger, and beneath 

 presents quite a different pattern, lacking also the reddish hue of that 

 species. 



